MUSHclient downloads

Version 4.27

• For Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista
• For notes about using under Wine (Linux) see below
• MUSHclient is FreeWare
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Installation notes

• Versions 3.21 (and higher) support XML world file format (for when you save a session), and support MUSHclient plugins (separate files which MUSHclient developers can distribute to add extra functionality).
• Files saved by version 3.21 onwards are not compatible with earlier versions of MUSHclient (that is, version 3.20 and earlier).
• MUSHclient version 3.85 (onwards) no longer reads the old "binary" world files produced by versions prior to 3.21. For more information about this please read the forum post Version 3.85 no longer supports world files created prior to version 3.21 - this post has recommendations about how to upgrade your world files if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 3.21.

• If you are upgrading from a version prior to 3.21 then you will need to download an interim version, for example: http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/mushclient384.exe (1.82 Mb). Use that to open your world files, and then re-save in XML format. That is, just open each world file, and save it. Then version 3.85 onwards will be able to read that world file.
• You are strongly advised to backup (make a copy of) your existing MUSHclient world files before upgrading to version 3.21 or higher.
• Version 4.12 onwards allow for localization (that is, translating resources such as menus, and various messages, into different languages). For more details about the internationalization effort, read the How to localize MUSHclient messages into other languages forum posting.

Warning about Lua 5.1 upgrade

MUSHclient version 3.80 upgraded the Lua script engine from Lua 5.0.2 to 5.1.1. If you are upgrading to this version from an earlier version than 3.80, you should read Version 3.80 released - with Lua 5.1 script engine - this post has recommendations about what is required if you use Lua scripting or Lua plugins.

Download

• http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/mushclient427.exe

  MUSHclient version 4.27 (1.96 Mb).

  MD5 sum for the installer

  If you do an md5sum on the installer above you should get this result:

  0a9b79b5392c1d7a439d8b132f1202ea

  The forum post a small script to sumcheck the MUSHclient download shows how you can write a small script in MUSHclient to do the sumcheck.

Release notes

You can view the release notes for version 4.27

Problems?

Many frequently-encountered problems are discussed on the MUSHclient FAQ forum posting. Please read that before reporting difficulties.

Wine (Linux)

We have had some success running MUSHclient under Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) - a system for running Windows program under Linux.

Our most recent successful test has been with wine-20040505-1fc1winehq.i386.rpm (Wine version from 5 May 2004).

MUSHclient has a "/wine" command-line option that you can try if you have problems starting MUSHclient under Wine. This disables some of the COM (Component Object Model) calls, and disables scripting. Lua scripting is still available, even with "/wine" specified. However, our most recent test has MUSHclient running successfully without using the /wine option.

Wine can be obtained from http://www.winehq.org/.

You may have problems running the MUSHclient installer under Wine. If this is the case we suggest running the installer on a Windows PC, and then simply zipping up the installed MUSHclient directory and copying that to your Linux PC. Similarly, to use VBscript (or other script engines) you may have more success by installing them on Windows, and then copying the relevant DLL (eg. vbscript.dll) to your MUSHclient directory in Wine.

Some versions of MUSHclient are now supplied as a "gzipped tar" file (mushclient.xx.x.tar.gz) which does not require the use of the installer. You may prefer to download one of those versions.

See Running MUSHclient under Wine (Linux) for some more tips about recent attempts to run MUSHclient under Wine.

Other files you can download for use with MUSHclient

The files below are useful utilities as mentioned in various forum posts:

• G15_Display.zip - DLL for use with the Logitech G15 gamers keyboard (45 Kb).
  See forum thread How to use the Logitech G15 gamers keyboard with MUSHclient.

• lua5.1.zip - Standalone version of Lua 5.1 (lua5.1.exe) and the DLL required to run it (lua5.1.dll). The DLL itself ships with the MUSHclient download. (129 Kb)

• lua5.1_lib.zip - lua5.1.lib for linking against your own DLLs that you write, plus the Lua 5.1 include files (luaconf.h, lua.h, lauxlib.h and lualib.h) which are needed for writing them. Only download this if you are planning to write your own DLLs. (17 Kb)

• luac5.1.zip - Lua 5.1 compiler (stand-alone program) called luac5.1.exe. You only need this if you want to make Lua "object" files. (102 Kb)

• luacom.zip - Lua COM package compiled to run with Lua 5.1 (eg. for loading in the speech synthesizer) - (90 Kb).
  See forum thread Accessing COM objects from Lua.

• mysql.zip - Lua SQL package for use with MySQL databases, compiled to run with Lua 5.1 (27 Kb).
  See forum thread Accessing a MySQL database from MUSHclient.

• libmySQL.zip - the mysql.dll (in mysql.zip) has a dependency on this DLL, so you may need this file as well to access a MySQL database (662 Kb).

• odbc.zip - Lua SQL package for use with ODBC databases, compiled to run with Lua 5.1 (27 Kb).
  See forum thread Lua, MS Access databases?.

• windows_utils.zip - a couple of utilities, for bringing programs to the front, and executing shell commands (27 Kb).
  See forum thread A utility to bring Crimson Editor to the foreground.

• statusbar.zip - a small stand-alone program for use with MUSHclient to display a text or graphical "status bar" window of whatever size you want (33 Kb).
  See forum thread New custom status bar window.

Warning! - some of the forum threads mentioned above also have links to downloading files of the same name, but these are generally for older versions of MUSHclient which used Lua 5.0. The files on this page are the correct ones to use with the version of MUSHclient which you download here (which uses Lua 5.1).

MD5 sums for the above files:

fa6515b07b043812d77c9b9dc0ce3f53 G15_Display.zip
ed273179233b1c3da2fdebca1af7b390 lua5.1.zip
2d6e852f332db06978ffa57d56817b00 lua5.1_lib.zip
f26034eee3ec1720aa2997230d24358b luac5.1.zip
02f70e7e108ebdb7e7276cef27a295ac luacom.zip
3a5d1c196819d957578f77231070153e mysql.zip
43b953fe2f93cb98d39aa3ae63776f5d libmySQL.zip
7ebf3323439afe75d47f565c3a477d0e odbc.zip
f50a017e6fcbb3a5489623ea9ad4c989 windows_utils.zip
a178b8f93eed54f15764b232d7ee55d9 statusbar.zip

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