Easy to Use, Free Mud Clients

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May 15, 2006, 05:34:21 PM
What are some very, very simple to use, free, good for arm mud clients.

When I say simple to use, it to be COMPLETELY simple. Like, your grandmother who has never seen a computer would think it was fairly intuitive.

I use Zmud, but it's not free. I'm essentially looking for something that has the abolute least barrier to entry for a player who is foreign to muds.

Thoughts?
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May 15, 2006, 05:37:38 PM #1
GMUD
PUEBLO
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May 15, 2006, 05:43:00 PM #2
the java client on the webpage.

I think wyrmnet is pretty simple, and I have a detailed walkthrough.

But yea, pueblo is the simplest I've seen.
May 15, 2006, 05:45:42 PM #3
GMud - its very simple and reliable. Aliases, macros, triggers and logging is pretty much all it does and I've never had a problem with it in 6 years.
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May 15, 2006, 05:47:38 PM #4
I've been quite pleased with SimpleMU.

It's very easy to use, and it has a lot of capability.  You can get out of it the effort that you put in to it... so if you just want a basic netrunning program, SimpleMU is for you.  If you want something with customizable triggers and sound effects that are pretty easy to navigate and manipulate, then SimpleMU is still for you.

If you want something free, then SimpleMU is for you, and you can decide to pay them whenever in order to get even more features and expandability (over 10 event triggers, for instance)
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May 15, 2006, 05:49:42 PM #5
In my Experience, Gmud is fun and I am addicted to it. I tried mushclient and it is equally as good, but not as good as Gmud in its simplicity.
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May 15, 2006, 06:07:52 PM #6
With a few simple alterations..

Alclient

It has almost everything(excellent logging, automap, highlights, alias, ...), but spell check.
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May 15, 2006, 06:09:57 PM #7
Gmud is the simplest client I've ever used.

Right now I use MUSHclient because it has a lot more features that I feel are very helpful.  But to the new user GMud is about as simple as it gets, and it's 100% free.
May 15, 2006, 06:10:04 PM #8
Gmud is my client of choice.
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May 15, 2006, 06:42:50 PM #9
JMC, I got a grrreat hotkey setup....From back in my PK MUD days.
May 15, 2006, 06:51:02 PM #10
I use SimpleMU, but I'd strongly recommend GMud as being by far the easiest to get used to for MUD/computer/technology newbies.
May 15, 2006, 07:04:36 PM #11
Cantrip for OS X
May 15, 2006, 07:08:16 PM #12
FireClient's good for someone unfamiliar to MUDs.
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May 15, 2006, 07:12:21 PM #13
Gmud, it's the first client I came across and I've given several others a try. It's easy to use and it doesn't have a bunch of extras that I won't use anyway. Oh yeah...and free.
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May 15, 2006, 07:15:59 PM #14
gMUDix by Marko Boomstra from Holland.
Available in Windows binaries and source code for anyone with Open Source libraries and a compiler.
Extremely intuitive, easy to program, powerful and free.
May 15, 2006, 07:46:49 PM #15
I second SimpleMU, and Cantrip for Mac OS X.
May 15, 2006, 07:58:58 PM #16
tintin++ compiled to run on OS X.
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May 16, 2006, 12:08:52 AM #17
Uh, I really like Portal.  It's basically a ZMud clone, and totally free.
May 16, 2006, 12:44:36 AM #18
I used Gmud for most of the first few years that I played MUDs..just recently I broke down and bought Zmud..I'm mostly ignorant about it's features and such.  Attempted to us the automapping ability it has, and found that it worked like crap for my needs...so yeah, get Gmud.
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May 16, 2006, 12:49:21 AM #19
Quote from: "Fnord"tintin++ compiled to run on OS X.

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May 16, 2006, 12:52:00 AM #20
I use a zMUD 4.62. I set my clock forward about 50 years before I installed it, so I'm on day negative 3753 or whatever of my free trial.

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May 16, 2006, 03:19:19 AM #21
Portal
You just got to watch out because it will crash on you like once every couple of months.  The system will give you warning when it is getting around the two month mark, though.  Other than that, portal is great.  It's simple, yet has a lot of features.
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May 16, 2006, 03:45:37 AM #22
Quote from: "Cale_Knight"I use a zMUD 4.62. I set my clock forward about 50 years before I installed it, so I'm on day negative 3753 or whatever of my free trial.

Good times.

Do you mean 3.62?  That's the free one according to the zmud website.  The zmud guy is a pretty cool dude so if you're really using 4.62 without paying for it and bypassing nag screens via some sort of install exploit I wish you wouldn't post how to do it.

There are plenty of good free mudclients out there I don't know why someone wouldn't just use one of those.
May 16, 2006, 04:13:01 AM #23
I can't believe that noone's mentioned MushClient yet.  I'll even throw in a trigger package to highlights useful things (talk/whisper/shout from other rooms/psi message) for those that would like it.
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May 16, 2006, 09:07:01 AM #24
I payed for my zMud yeaaaaaaarrrrs ago and I think it's the best $25 I spent in all my mudding life.  


I also love the client they have on the web browser. Love love LOVE it!
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May 16, 2006, 10:15:45 AM #25
http://www.ashavar.com/client

One of the best clients. You can replace sdesc with the recorded names. Highlights, create maps, and all. just set cfg file to our server. Oh, did I mention custom buttons that you can put different command actions such as:
dismount;
draw uber weapon
Commands can be assign to a single button.
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May 16, 2006, 10:42:33 AM #26
i thought the request was for simple clients, that any grandma can use.

mushclient doesn't fall into that. And even Portal's initial boot screen is confusing. Took me a bit to figure it out right.
May 16, 2006, 11:21:02 AM #27
Anybody can use mushclient when I give them the Armageddon world file so that they have alias examples and all the colorization they'll ever truly need.
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May 16, 2006, 05:42:48 PM #28
I use Mushclient and have for about 4 or 5 years. It's not freeware, it has this weird loading bar before it comes up, but it's nice.
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