Shattered Kingdoms

How do I use this Putty system? I don't understand how to use it. By the way, thanks for answering my questions!

You know, you don't have to make a new thread to reply. Just reply in the original thread, otherwise you're going to create a ridiculous amount of threads concerning just the one topic you're trying to address.

Actually, I prefer ALClient as my free client. It's not ZMud, but it has more features than a new player would care to use, and I liked how easy it was to set up. (I just took a look at Putty's web page. Ick.)

Available here: http://www.ashavar.com/client/

Once you install it, you just need to put our game's location under: Connect/Connect to Remote Host. Our address is mud.shatteredkingdoms.org. The port is 1996. After you connect, go to File/Save, then set autoload last cfg file. That will keep our information in memory, so you don't have to retype it every time you connect.

I'm too lazy to go and give you detailed instructions but this is a decent play by play for PuTTy off the top of my head. I'm in ToM right now waiting for these arots to stop grouping up. Bleh.

Putty is pretty simple, I use it all the time on the road. It downloads in a few seconds on a broadband connection and has a very small footprint.

Main thing to remember with the program is that the settings are stored in the registry. What you need to do when you first fire it up is put in the name of the profile you want to connect to, e.g. SK. Then put in the mud.shatteredkingdoms.org 1996 address.

At this point you should see the save button so you might as well go ahead and save what you got right now. When you do this the text SK will show up in the profile bit, where you can access it later the next time you open PuTTY, that way you don't have to go through everything again.

Over on the left-hand side are your settings. You'll probably want to set your default text to something like Lucida Console size 10 (may have to uncheck a box to be able to get this to work). Your ANSI colors are going to be a bit wacked out too. You need to go through each of the bolds and select a proper bold color (I like all my colors bright). Cursor is nice when it's a single blinking line green or red color. Set the scrollback to something like 10000 or 20000. A good tip is that you can quickly scroll back up by holding the shift key and pressing page-up. An annoying thing is that if anything happens while you're in the middle of looking at scrollback you'll get reset down to where the next text has come in.

You're almost ready to get started! (This stuff comes second nature after you do it enough times). Before you click open world go back on world preferences (left-hand side) and find the place where the profile business was. Make sure to save again otherwise all the nice customized changes you made to your colors, text, and scrollback will be lost.

Another way of doing all of this is to go into your registry and find the SimonTatham key there AFTER you've got all your settings good to go and saved and everything. Export it from regedit - it will save down into a .reg file. Rename and upload it as a .txt to a free website like geocities and then save it down and rename it to a .reg on the whatever different Windows computer you're on. Double-click the .reg file and presto, dont' have to mess around with settings so much when you download and open PuTTy. If the .txt file shows in your browser, select all the text, create a new .txt file with notepad, copy/paste, rename, open and yes, import. Basic stuff.

The two main reasons to go with a different client than PuTTy are scrollback annoyances and auto-repeat command (e.g. being able to hold down the enter key and automatically send the last command you entered). Triggers and aliases factor into this as well, but are not deciding factors. Another thing to keep in mind is the speed of your client. There is some slight lag delay incurred in crappy programs like Roaclient, gmud, SimpleMud. Zmud, Mushclient and Putty are the tops.

If you don't want to pay for Zmud or Mushclient there are cracked versions of zMud on torrent sites and serialz for Mushclient all over the web (I suggest using some kind of sandbox on your browser to inhibit spyware). If you don't know what a sandbox, torrents, or spyware is then, well, fuhgeddaboutit. 20-30 bucks is chump change for all the owning you'll be doing on SK.

There is a PuTTY setting that will stop your problem with the window resetting while you are viewing scrollback.