The driver is not available in a native Windows format, or .exe. as everyone knows it. The genesis Interest Association made it available as a Cygwin executable. cygwin is an Unix environment on Windows and it has a very nice installer.
Here are the steps to have a mud running on your Windows machine in no time.
1. Install Cygwin
2. Download and unpack the Cygwin distro
3. Start the mud driver
1. Install Cygwin
The first step is to download the Cygwin installer: http://cygwin.com/setup.exe. Save it on your desktop, it might prove useful later, when you get used to it.
Start setup.exe from your desktop.
Click next and select "Install from the Internet on the next screen
Choose the defaults on the next screens:
Choose where you will put the packages you download. So you're saying a working mom er... goddess cannot play RPGs ? :D
Most probably you have a direct connection. Choose this if you are not sure.
Any mirror on the list will do. If you know a mirror that is closer to your physical location, choose it.
Wait until the installation list is downloaded on the next screen
On the next screen, expand the section "Libs" and select the "crypt" package as circled.
Choose to create icons o the desktop and the Start menu.
The cygwin installation is done. Look on your desktop for this icon:
Double click to start cygwin.
2. Download and unpack the genesis cygwin distro.
The cygwin distro ca be found at http://www.genesismud.org/distributions/cygwin-genesis-dist.zip
Dowload it an unpack it under c:\cygwin\home\mud as shown below
3. Start the mud driver
Double click on the cygwin icon, as shown above.
> cd /home/mud/bin
> ./driver &
The mud driver is started. Look for the next posts o how to create
the root user ans start building your game.
