    Useful Downloads and Applications

    Written by Cratylus @ Frontiers, June 2006

    	No program exists in a vacuum. For many people, their
    operating systems generally provide all the software they
    need to operate Dead Souls adequately. But sometimes there
    is just a better way.

    	In the spirit of the poor college student I was when I
    started mudding, I will try to include only freeware or free
    shareware apps here.

    Windows editors

    Windows clients

    UNIX clients

    Mudsbuilder client stuff

    Windows editors:

    	The #1 problem in Windows is that the default plaintext
    editor, Notepad, produces text that is not 100% compatible with the
    mud. Windows plaintext and UNIX plaintext differ, believe it
    or not. If you use notepad for editing mudos.cfg, for example,
    your mud is likely to just fail to boot. This is because it
    can no longer read the "incorrectly" formatted file.

    	The other big problem with Notepad and Wordpad is that
    they often add formatting and characters to text files that
    make them very ugly and hard to read from inside the mud.

    	The solution is to use a text editor that can save in
    UNIX text format. The following URLs point to editors that I
    have been told will do a good job of this. I can't vouch for
    them, as they are 3rd party apps and I've never tested them, but
    I am assured they are very good for this.

    Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

    WinVi http://www.winvi.de/en/

    Notepad2 http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

    Windows clients:

    	I can't imagine using the default Windows telnet client for
    long. It is so bereft of features as to be actually worse than the
    crappiest UNIX (or even VMS!) clients from 1993...Windows telnet is
    worse than the worst from thirteen years ago.

    	There are a ton of great Windows mud clients out there.
    Anyway, that's what I hear. Back when I used windows, I used a free
    version of Zmud, and sometimes a less preferred Gmud.  Zmud is now
    a non-free application, so you have to buy it to use it. However,
    they do still allow free distribution of a crappy, super old
    version of the client.

    	Some people swear by the free mudmagic telnet client.
    I haven't tried it, so I can't vouch for it, but here's a link
    to it too.

    Gmud http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gmud.exe

    Old Zmud 3 from 1996 (not my prob if it's broken) http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/zmud.zip

    MudMagic http://www.mudmagic.com/mud-client/downloads/mudmagic-1.8-setup.exe

    UNIX clients:

    	The client I use is gmoo 0.5.6. It has its drawbacks, but it
    works ok, in general, and I'm used to it. An older version of it is
    gMOO 0.4.8, and I've found it's a little easier to compile on some
    newer UNIXes, for reasons beyond me.

    	As with the Windows version, some people like the mudmagic
    Linux client. As with the Windows version, I wouldn't know, but
    here it is.

    gmoo 0.5.6 http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gmoo-0.5.6.tar.gz

    gMOO 0.4.8 http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gMOO-0.4.8.tar.gz

    MudMagic http://www.mudmagic.com/mud-client/linux_download

Mudsbuilder client stuff
There's a GUI client for building LPC areas called Mudsbuilder.
Download it from Sourceforge and see if it suits you. There is
also a related Windows app. You can use this template file to create
Dead Souls rooms in the Windows app(Thanks Saquivor!). You'll have
to modify the template a bit to get it working on the Linux app.
See the LPUniversity forums posts from Saquivor.
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