<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>Dead Souls Downloads</title> <link rel="icon" href="./favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="./favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> </head> <body> <pre style="font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;"><big><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Useful Downloads and Applications</span></big><br><br>Written by Cratylus @ Frontiers, June 2006<br></big><big><br> No program exists in a vacuum. For many people, their<br>operating systems generally provide all the software they<br>need to operate Dead Souls</big><big> adequately</big><big>. But sometimes there<br>is just a better way.<br><br> In the spirit of the poor college student I was when I<br>started mudding, I will try to include only freeware or free<br>shareware apps here.<br><br><a href="#1">Windows editors</a><br><br><a href="#2">Windows clients</a><br><br><a href="#3">UNIX clients</a><br><br><a href="#4">Mudsbuilder client stuff</a><br><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><a name="1"></a>Windows editors</span>:<br><br> The #1 problem in Windows is that the default plaintext <br>editor, Notepad, produces text that is not 100% compatible with the<br>mud. Windows plaintext and UNIX plaintext differ, believe it<br>or not. If you use notepad for editing mudos.cfg, for example,<br>your mud is likely to just fail to boot. This is because it<br>can no longer read the "incorrectly" formatted file. <br><br> The other big problem with Notepad and Wordpad is that<br>they often add formatting and characters to text files that<br>make them very ugly and hard to read from inside the mud.<br><br> The solution is to use a text editor that can save in<br>UNIX text format. The following URLs point to editors that I<br>have been told will do a good job of this. I can't vouch for<br>them, as they are 3rd party apps and I've never tested them, but<br>I am assured they are very good for this.<br><br><a href="http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Notepad++ </span>http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.winvi.de/en/"><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">WinVi </span>http://www.winvi.de/en/</a><br><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><a name="2"></a>Windows clients:</span><br><br> I can't imagine using the default Windows telnet client for<br>long. It is so bereft of features as to be actually worse than the<br>crappiest UNIX (<span style="font-style: italic;">or even VMS!</span>) clients from 1993...Windows telnet is<br>worse than the worst from <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">thirteen years ago</span>. <br><br> There are a ton of great Windows mud clients out there.<br>Anyway, that's what I hear. Back when I used windows, I used a free<br>version of Zmud, and sometimes a less preferred Gmud. Zmud is now<br>a non-free application, so you have to buy it to use it. However,<br>they do still allow free distribution of a crappy, super old <br>version of the client.<br><br> Some people swear by the free mudmagic telnet client.<br>I haven't tried it, so I can't vouch for it, but here's a link<br>to it too.<br><a href="http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gmud.exe"><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gmud</span> http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gmud.exe</a><br><a href="http://rugose.com/zmud.zip"><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Old Zmud 3 from 1996 (not my prob if it's broken)</span> </a></big><big><a href="http://rugose.com/zmud.zip">http://rugose.com/zmud.zip</a><br><br><a href="http://www.mudmagic.com/mud-client/downloads/mudmagic-1.8-setup.exe"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MudMagic</span> http://www.mudmagic.com/mud-client/downloads/mudmagic-1.8-setup.exe</a><br><br><br></big><big><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><a name="3"></a>UNIX clients:</span><br><br> The client I use is gmoo 0.5.6. It has its drawbacks, but it<br>works ok, in general, and I'm used to it. An older version of it is<br>gMOO 0.4.8, and I've found it's a little easier to compile on some<br>newer UNIXes, for reasons beyond me. <br> <br> As with the Windows version, some people like the mudmagic<br>Linux client. As with the Windows version, I wouldn't know, but<br>here it is.<br><br><a href="http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gmoo-0.5.6.tar.gz"><span style="font-weight: bold;">gmoo 0.5.6</span> http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gmoo-0.5.6.tar.gz</a><br><br><a href="http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gMOO-0.4.8.tar.gz"><span style="font-weight: bold;">gMOO 0.4.8</span> http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gMOO-0.4.8.tar.gz</a><br><br><a href="http://www.mudmagic.com/mud-client/linux_download"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MudMagic</span> http://www.mudmagic.com/mud-client/linux_download</a><br></big></pre> <big style="font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;"><br> <br> <span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><a name="4"></a>Mudsbuilder client stuff</span><br> <br> There's a GUI client for building LPC areas called Mudsbuilder.<br> <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mudsbuilder/mudsbuilder-0.5.4.tar.gz?download">Download it from Sourceforge</a> and see if it suits you. There is<br> also a <a href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/%7Ealex/dejarik">related Windows app</a>. You can use <a href="ds.tem">this template file</a> to create <br> Dead Souls rooms in the Windows app(Thanks Saquivor!). You'll have<br> to modify the template a bit to get it working on the Linux app.<br> <br> See the <a href="http://lpuni.muddomain.net/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=47&func=view&catid=20&id=466">LPUniversity forums posts from Saquivor</a>.<br> <br> <br> The end.<br> <br> <a href="index.html"><small>Dead Souls Homepage</small></a><br> </big> <br> </body> </html>
