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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:57 am

zMUD v7.03 is now available. This has several bug fixes to the previous v7.01 release. See the Version History for the details. Otherwise, here is the original v7.01 announcement. Enjoy!

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Well, it's been a long time coming, but zMUD v7.x is now available for general use. We've been beta testing for the past year to get to this point and I hope everyone likes the new version.

The most important features/changes to 7.0 are:

1) Much faster and more stable mapper compared to v6.62 or any past version. Because a lot of mapper quirks were fixed, you might need to change some of your #TAG triggers or anything you might have been doing to "kludge" the mapper into following you. So, stuff like extra #OK or #STEP or #PAUSE triggers might need to be replaced. You might just want to get rid of your triggers and try using the Config/Reconfig to see if the mapper works without any kludges. A lot of stuff has been fixed to make it work better and faster. All of the slowness in previous versions has been fixed. Zones load instantly now, and speedwalking is *very* fast.

2) New Trigger engine based upon Perl regular expressions. Great care has been taken to ensure that your existing triggers will continue to work. zMUD now converts those triggers into regular expressions internally and uses the new PCRE library to execute ALL triggers much faster than before. You could see anywhere from a factor of 2 to a factor of 10 in speed improvement depending upon the kind of triggers you use. And of course you can now use regular expressions directly, even with subpattern capturing that the old regex engine didn't support.

3) Full Windows XP support, including Themes. You'll notice this first...zMUD now has more colorful icons and works properly with your Win XP themes.

If you have trouble with the new version, please post to a NEW TOPIC thread and we will try to help. Be sure to post as much detail about the problem you are having as possible.

A lot of work from myself as well as the dozens of beta testers have gone into this version. In order to encourage people to try the new version, I have also reset the 30-day trial for anyone that used zMUD v6.40 or earlier. So, if you tried an older version of zMUD and found it to be slow or unstable, give the new version a try. It's better than most of the public versions I have released in the last couple of years.

Happy MUDding!

Apprentice Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 157 Location: USA

7.03 is wonderful! Speedwalking in Aetolia is hugely improved. Thank you so much!

Newbie Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 1 Location: USA

I've tried updating several times from 6.40 tonight, and every time I start ZMud I get an array out of bounds error, and then the cursor stays stuck as an hourglass. I am able to feel my way into the program, but once there unable to connect to my mud. I've rolled back and tried again twice with the same results. Any ideas what could be causing this?

Newbie Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 1

I enable "Ctrl + Alt + key" to send "Ctrl + key", but it not work!
Only I enable Character mode, "Ctrl + Alt + c" can send "Ctrl + c".
Version 6.x is same, version 5.55 is ok.
Is it a bug?

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Please use a new topic to post questions and problems.