I need help please

Posted by SiN on Fri 01 Apr 2005 12:59 AM — 7 posts, 21,873 views.

SiN Fri 01 Apr 2005 12:59 AM #0

What do I need to get a mud up and running on my local windows box? I have the src areas etc etc etc but have no clue what I need to do to get all the code up and running?

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Zeno USA Fri 01 Apr 2005 01:51 AM #1

Rom wasn't originally made for Windows, so you'll either need to find a Windows version of Rom, or get a linux host. Or you could download Cygwin and use that to run Rom.

SiN Fri 01 Apr 2005 02:09 AM #2

ok thanks but the rom24 i downloaded already has src and areas and I get error messages when I start the "server"

Thu Mar 31 21:09:30 2005 :: [*****] FILE: teleport.are LINE: 0
Thu Mar 31 21:09:30 2005 :: [*****] BUG: Boot_db: bad section name.

Zeno USA Fri 01 Apr 2005 02:26 AM #3

Looks like the area is corrupt, or something of the sort? It's not reading teleport.are correctly. What are the first few lines?

SiN Fri 01 Apr 2005 02:36 AM #4

#AREADATA
Name Teleportation Center~
Builders None~
VNUMs 187 299

I have all the code from a mud but when I downloaded rom24(windowsport) and try to start rom.exe I get those errors but when I run the rom.exe with it's own files src/area etc it works fine =(

Zeno USA Fri 01 Apr 2005 02:39 AM #5

Yes because of code differences most likely, it'll not run correctly. It seems like the code for areas has changed enough that they cannot boot. You could try converting the areas by comparing the old and new code/areas, but I really doubt it'll be easy or simple.

SiN Fri 01 Apr 2005 02:42 AM #6

I really just need a host to put the code on and run it but I want to do it locally, because I'm in the process of learning and want to be able to break stuff on my own =P