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| Nick Gammon
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| I am presuming from your question that you are not fixated on ROM precisely, but a "ROM-like" MUD that you can get to work under Windows, have colour and online building?
I strongly recommend using FUSS SMAUG (FUSS stands for Fixed Up Smaug Source).
Unlike ROM 2.4 SmaugFUSS is being actively maintained, improved, and has many bug fixes applied.
Also it has colour and OLC built-in, whereas to add those to ROM you need a compiler, various patches, and some coding skill. Even then, if you are not used to working with C compilers there will always be frustrating moments when things go wrong, and you don't understand why, or how to fix them.
To make things easier for you, and anyone else in a similar situation, I have pre-compiled the source for SmaugFUSS 1.9 for Windows, so you can just install and run it.
First, grab this file (1.53 Mb):
http://www.gammon.com.au/files/smaug/smaugfuss1.9.tgz
That is the full SmaugFUSS 1.9 distribution. I downloaded that from The SMAUG FUSS project (http://www.fussproject.org).
You should be able to unzip that using WinZip - make sure you "use folder names" when doing so, in order to keep each file in its correct folder.
This gives you the area files, command files, empty player directories, and so on.
Next, grab this which is the precompiled executable (1.99 Mb):
http://www.gammon.com.au/files/smaug/smaugfuss1.9_executable.zip
Inside are 4 files:
- cygwin1.dll - needed to run things compiled under Cygwin
- cygz.dll - also needed - I suspect for the compression stuff
- smaug.exe - the SMAUG server, compiled
- resolver.exe - the domain name resolver
Use Winzip to unzip these 4 files into the "area" folder which appeared in the earlier step (that is, smaugfuss\area).
Now you should be able to simply double-click (open) smaug.exe to start the server up. It is important that you have smaug.exe in the "area" folder or you will get an error message about the "area.lst" file being missing.
Log into port 4000, using player Admin, password "admin".
This is an immortal which you can use to build with - or you can make other characters and promote them (or simply rename "Admin").
Here are some tips for playing with SMAUG as an admin:
http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/showfaq.php?faqid=64&productid=6
There are various building commands, search the Web for SMAUG building hints, there are some good tutorials out there.
Start by typing "wizhelp" - it shows the admin commands.
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