Shattered Kingdoms

What's the most popular/user friendly free MUD client

I use simpleMU , and it works. Not that I support software piracy, but you don't have to BUY zMUD to use it, if ya know what I mean...

I was always a big fan of SimpleMU, but I bought Zmud (for the auto-log capabilities, which I still have yet to get right on it. yep. i'm a moron.)

I used MUSHclient for a while before I bought zMud (which I bought for the auto logging and the spell check. Gosh I love spell check.)

well, I'm using MUSH on suggestion from my room, any particular cons other than no spell check and no auto logging

You can auto log with MUSH. And I have been told you can get spell check as well, somehow. If you press ALT+3 you bring up the logging menu. Check log output about half way through the window and then set up where you want the file to go. I made a special folder for mine so it looks something like:

C:\Documents and Settings\Randy\My Documents\SKz\%a%d%b%Y.txt

The last part of that names the file after the day of the week, the date number, the month, and the year. If you don't set up something like it will keep logging in the same file and it becomes very hard to search back through them. I originally had it just say the day, the month, and the year, and every friday, for example, it would log all of my stuff in the friday file.

I have no idea how to get the spell check working, though. And I am sure you have noticed that until you pay for mush client, you have to wait for the timer. I have both MUSH and zMUD, and I use MUSH more or less because that is what I have used since I started playing SK. zMUD has much more to play with, but I don't even know if I'd ever really use it.

There is an old version of zMUD that's available for free from Zugg's site. Never used it myself, so don't know how nasty it is. On the other hand, it's free to try.

That free version isn't too bad. I used the old zMUD when I begun SK. Comparably, MUSHClient is also free, has similar interface, and similar/more features.

Spell checking and logging have been built into Mushclient for years and years and it's free if you want to wait a few seconds on start up.

Could someone possibly post how to get the spell-checker going on MUSH? I would have to say that MUSH would win over zMUD as far as monetary value goes if we actually can get the same, more basic, functions going.

Oh, and MUSHclient does not see blinking text automatically. There may be a setting that allows you to see it, but I haven't ever really wanted to turn that one on. The game does look different on zMUD.