Question about rom2.4

Ok so i downloaded both versions of rom2.4 from the gammon website and it tells me that i have to transfer the rom.exe file over to the other one that way i can use rom2.4 with olc. The thing is i cant find the rom.exe file. maybe im doing something wrong or havent done something. Its been awhile since ive messed with this but i have messed with it before. If there is anything anybody could tell me that i need to do which im sure there is please help me. im in a situation were i have nothing to do and so i figured i would try and learn some coding while im doing what im doing.. if you have any insite on anything please feel free to add that in as well. i got the rom2.4 mud up and running its just not the one with olc.. This would be verry helpfull so please help me..

It should be in the src directory. If, did you compile yet?

Or are you trying to get the pre-compiled version?

No i havent done the compile yet. i have before but have forgotten how to do it i guess. i had help before. Could you run me threw the steps to compile it.. Im trying to learn how to code and have been reading up on C++.. i even downloaded code::blocks so i could start learning to code.. Im in the process of learning so if there is any way you could give me the down in dirty step by step how to compile and switch the files so i can start using the rom2.4 with olc version that would be greatly appreciated. Im also looking for somebody i could email about problems i might encounter so if your somebody that doesnt mind helping somebody learn it would be great to have ur email so i could email u personally.. Hope to hear back.. Thanks for your time.

http://www.gammon.com.au/smaug/howtocompile.htm#compile

Ok.. so i need to download cygwins but i was woundering.. I dont have alot of download room with the internet im running. i only get 10 gigs to last me 30 days and i pay a good deal for it. i was woundering what i needed to get off of cygwins to be able to do what i need to do.. If there is any ways that somebody could help me were i wont have to download a bunch of stuff it would be very helpfull. thanks..

Then it sounds like you should get a MUD host. There's a number of paid and free ones out there.

But you should learn Linux commands first.

The size of my Cygwin download folder is only 147 Mb. That's only 14% of 1 Gb. At 10 Gb for 30 days you can afford to download 341 Mb per day, so that isn't too bad. Especially as it is a once-off.

Ok well i downloaded cygwins and well after downloading it all day and using 300 some MB it says its not compatable with windows 7. So i deleted it and i was woundering if anybody knew a good compiler to download and the steps to downloading it and installing it.. if somebody could help me with that it would be great. Thanks.

also when i go to download cygwins do i just download all of the default things or is there anything specific that i will need to run rom 2.4?? thanks

You downloaded 300 Mb and then deleted it? Why?

According to the Cygwin web site:



Slow down a bit. Rather than just deleting something large you have downloaded, maybe ask for help first?

Well, don't feel too bad about it, I couldn't even download it, (ref = http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=10970&page=999 ).
And, no matter what information you get from here about muds you are getting some of the best. There are only a few of these people left that know about them, on this site, and a couple others.
Without these games being presented to anyone in their raw form as they are, I doubt anyone would have any interest in them. Which is a shame. I missed the bbs era, but I sure appreciate being able to access and explore that era which was the precurser to massively online player games that we now enjoy to play (on some) in 3D.
{Side Note: Nick, I can't double quote, it erases everything in the Message box and replaces with second quote. Is there a trick to that?}

My name's not Nick, but the problem is that every quote link does the same thing: it sends you to the posting page with the quoted post in [quote] tags. There's nothing special about the quote links on the posting page, they do the exact same thing.

Just copy what you want to quote, paste it, and put [quote] ... [/quote] around it.

I mentioned in the other thread that seems to have kicked off on this subject, the handful of extra things I added to get it to work.

Lol, I was refering to Nick Gammon.

I just noticed that my visual c is no longer on my computer after I installed visual c++ 2008 express and have no way to recompile the smaug I have been working on. I had studio express 2005 that I was using to compile in c. Apparently it erased everything, including my c library that I had stored under one of it's directories.

I've been searching my external drives for a backup of that version.

{External Hard Drive Note: If you have an external notebook, or such, and it fails, take it out of the case and put it into a docking bay, and you will find that it still works. If it fails there, then it really did die.}

Lol, I was refering to Nick Gammon.

I just noticed that my visual c is no longer on my computer after I installed visual c++ 2008 express and have no way to recompile the smaug I have been working on. I had studio express 2005 that I was using to compile in c. Apparently it erased everything, including my c library that I had stored under one of it's directories.

I've been searching my external drives for a backup of that version.

{External Hard Drive Note: If you have an external notebook, casing, or such, and it fails, take it out of the case and put it into a docking bay, and you will find that it still works. If it fails there, then it really did die.}




I selected all, copy, clicked on quote, above, then shifted down (enter), and pasted my original, (above the second quote here), and it worked.
:)

I know :) I was apologizing for answering it instead of Nick.

No Problem :)

(Lol, I think I ended up with a duplicate post when I edited, testing more than one quotes.)

I edited, select and copied all in my post, clicked on the other quote, then pasted above that to get both quotes. I would guess that it would work for multiple quotes too.

I still haven't found the visual c I was using before to compile smaug in. If I find it I'll post it and also post the project file that I used before to get it to compile. My current one/s seem to have been modified by the vc 2008 express and now load up as c++ instead of c.

What I tend to do is ctrl-click the quote link to open it as a tab, then copy the contents over to the original tab.

I found, edit post, select all on my original post, copy, click on another quote, space down from that quote, paste original post above that. Do save on new post.
It seemed to work for me to get more than one quote in a post (trial and error).