Better MOO Client

I had to convince someone to use SimpleMu today, instead.  So I'm thinking.. maybe it would be good if that was updated, to something that worked.  SimplueMu is my recomendation.  It's shareware, but it never expires.

http://www.download.com/SimpleMU/3000-2381_4-7984616.html?tag=lst-0-1

Thats a link to it's download.com thang.  I dunno, just my two chy.

We will be recommending VMOO officially I think.

I now use MUSHclient and have very few problems with it (and again, most of the ones I do have would be fixed by registering the program).

Basically, all I want is something simple that I can change the colours in (black text on light grey, thanks) and that automatically logs to file. VMoo and MUSHclient both do that, but VMoo doesn't have ads. That's the basis behind my choice.

But thats just our recommendations. :)

As such, I'm not sure if it's that I'm more familiar with another program, but after having played around with VMoo (for the second and third stints at the program), I went back to MUSHclient after a few days.

Tab autocomplete is a great thing, kids. If VMoo has it, it's an option that needed to be turned on and I didn't find it.

I also wasn't fond of the colour options (eh, I'm a girl, I likeses to set up things so they're pretty) and it didn't make settings as obvious / easy to find as I think MUSHclient does.

They're both trial programs, they both have restrictions / issues because of that - but I find waiting ten seconds for a splash screen to go away is far superior to knowing that I'm running adware (and an inferior product for what I want, to boot).

I don't recall why I changed from Pueblo - I found (after some searching) the new version that was updated relatively recently, and it's what I had installed on my parents' machine for when I went visiting and wanted to avoid the family. Someone (Lujan?) suggested MUSHclient a while after that, however, and I was sold.

In my current financial situation (starving artist living on unemployment benefits), I find the AU$30 registration fee a bit steep (I'd actually spring for $15-20), but the way it's set up is far more enduser friendly (I believe) than VMoo.

*curtseys*
(I can't wait for school to go back so I can write more comparative essays that are completely subjective and contain very little of real merit.)

Quote: from Kaffeine on 12:20 am on Jan. 10, 2006[br]V-Moo works great for me and if you allow Aureate and Radiate when running adaware or spybot (or any other program for spyware) then you can keep V-Moo without paying for us poor cheap people out there :)

And the good thing about the aureate/vmoo thing is that I don't think I've ever seen anything but the default ad for vmoo, that comes with the program. So, the fact that your spyware detection stuff is flagging it does not mean the software is actually doing anything. You'd see the ad change, but I don't think it works anymore. So basically, its a slightly annoying ad window that doesn't actually show ads.

Its pretty nifty, open-source java client by the people over @ mudmagic. So if you wanna get fresh and rip into it a bit like a good lil' hax0r, go for it.

For the more stable, mudmagic also has a multi-platform client. Check it out. Its like Zmud but FREE.

(Edited by ReeferMadness at 9:03 pm on Feb. 2, 2006)