Installing MajorMud on windows 7 64bits

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johnnykipu
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Installing MajorMud on windows 7 64bits

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Got the files, installed worldgroup 3.30 without too much problems but I can't install MajorMud. Tried setting a virtual machine with Windows XP sp3 but the setup couldn't run. Uncompressed the file in C:, a worldgroup and a WCC folder, didn't work more. Searched the forums but couldn't find any more ideas. Someone has a way to make it work?


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I posted this on facebook. You just unzip it to your wgserv directory and then do your code.


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Leaving this here for reference sake. Usually the reason the setup program will not run is because it is a remnant of the MSDOS filesystem days where everything was 8.3 spec (XXXXXXXX.XXX), therefore if you are trying to install from a "long filename" directory in Windows it will fail.

To remedy, simply extract the MajorMUD setup files into an 8.3 acceptable directory (example: C:\WCCMMUD) then run the setup and it should execute just fine.


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