directions for installing gMUD to your computer (in Windows 95 or higher):

1. download gMUD, and save it to "C:\temp\" or some other temporary directory.
2. run gmud.exe by clicking the "Start" button, and selecting "Run".
3. type in "c:\temp\gmud.exe" and click "Ok".
4. specify a different directory to unzip to, or just click "Unzip".
5. after it has extracted everything, click on "Close".
6. make a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on your desktop, selecting "New", then "Shortcut". the command line is "C:\gmud\gmud32.exe" (without the quotation marks, click "Next>", name it "gMUD", and then click "Finish".
7. run gMUD by double-clicking the shortcut which you just created.

after you have gMUD running:

1. click the "F" icon or do "Options" --> "Font...", and change the font to "Lucida Console", "Courier", or another fixed-width font. i recommend Lucida Console, personally. (it's the font that the navigation is in.) if you don't do this, you'll notice bizarre spacing on lines that include ANSI colour.
2. go to "Options" --> "Screen Wrap..." and pick "Wrap to Screen", "Wrap to Word".

other than that, set it to your liking.

* the executable is a self-extracting zipfile, so you don't need to have Winzip to extract it, it will extract itself.

note: if you had access to anything that i didn't have linked before, you probably still do. if you have any questions on this, please e-mail me.