Wanting to start a board

[ViolentNightmaer]

New to this, have been playing mud for years now and, have decided I want to host my own BBS to see what I can do with it, and eventually host for people.
Would anyone be able to tell me where I would go to obtain the software to do this, also the best OS to host on.
Will be greatly appreciated.

[BearFather]

IF your on FB the Mud group has it in the files area.
As far as OS I would use win2008 or win2k.

[syntax]

Runs perfectly fine on Windows 7 too. Don't believe the hype.

[BearFather]

Yes it's true it can run on windows 7 or 10, hell my board is temporary sitting on windows 10 pro. But lacks 2 things, server security and dos startup files. With WG/Mud it likes you to tweak certain things if you run multiple muds, or some doors. And window's 2008 you loose the ability to set certain system variables. They have a replacement for it in windows but found it's not 100% reliable.

[ViolentNightmaer]

Thank you guys for the info, I'm going to try to do this on windows 10, if not I'll move to windows 7.
I was told to try and get WG 3.0 or 3.2, should I? or is 3.30 ok?

[ViolentNightmaer]

I keep getting a message saying the majormud setup.exe is not compatible with 64bit windows, do I need to change to a 32bit?

[BearFather]

Check the post at the top of this forum about setting up a board.