Huron

Cyvok, now there's a name I haven't heard or thought of in a while. Makes me think of all the hard work we put into Steve. Things are much different now indeed. I used to enjoy running around 1.0 with my freighters, being a true space trucker. But the suicide ganks destroyed my fun as well. I had a stint a few years ago, where I joined a corp living in a low sec pocket. Dipped my toes into moon mining and low sec living in general. Lasted a few months, but in the end, it's just not my kinda game, wish it was, kinda, but in the end I guess what brings me back most is just the nostalgia. And it's never like it was back in the day, so I always end up quitting when that realization kicks in.

Excellent find, I never looked into the origins of it, but that explains a lot. Cool read, thanks for sharing.

@karu Wonderful information, thank you for sharing that. Makes total sense to me.

Oh I see you mentioned mutex in your post as well. I definitely need more coffee as I just woke up I think the difference in how you started them might have caused a change in how fast they are all started. Perhaps that has something to do with it, maybe if the processes are spawned fast enough, they don't get bothered by the mutex lock (yet) or something. I'm not sure.

Hyea @Codemonkeyx thank you for your replies. I'm not sure what was implemented exactly in LaunchNet7 vs Net7Proxy, but I can tell you exactly what the mechanism is that is in the original enb client executable. They make use of a so called mutex lock, you can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_(computer_science) So basically you come up with a name, you use that name as a lock, next time a process tries to lock based on that same name, it will already exist and that's how they knew we were running multiple clients at the same time. This also means that WM_CLASS name or WM_NAME don't matter. What the unlocker feature of my tool does is Duplicate the lock with a special option that closes the source lock. Which means now my tool is the "owner" of the lock, but my tool spanwed a new process to do this with. And then my new process lets itself die, taking the lock with it. Admitted, not a graceful solution, but it does work like a charm. The mutex name they came up with was: Mutant

Thanks for your response and your help to Teddy @Codemonkeyx Very helpful to know someone created AHK for the login part, should come in handy for Teddy for sure. And you are right, this tool is now only used for positioning since the unblock seems to be no longer needed. Technically I still don't understand why it's not needed anymore, as I don't understand how the change for the port in the launcher could solve the already running error. But as long as it's working it's fine for me Speaking of that C# project, I'm not even sure what the code was like for this, I know I slapped it together in very little time and it was some years ago, so I will probably be disgusted by what I wrote myself haha

I'm often nostalgic thinking back on those days many years ago, geez what is it, 22 years now? I was devastated when the game shut down. And since I've always hated PVP, the move to Eve was painful. Although it was also fun to run those massive high sec mining ops with sooo many of us. I am still training some skills on one of my Eve accounts, but I hardly ever login anymore. Should probably go back to leveling my PW here on the emulator at some point, but too many games I like atm and so little time xD Great to see you all here btw!

Hi Teddy, I'm not actively playing EnB atm and I am swamped with other projects/hobbies, so I don't have any plans to work on anything atm. I had not seen the EnB gearlist site yet, so I looked at it, seems they have a tool similar to this, but including login/password indeed, perhaps you can use their tool instead of mine? Since it already has it. I have never been involved with anything else but this tool in this thread, so no affiliation with EnB gearlist or any other site for that matter.

Hi, glad you like it. I wrote this without much interaction with the game client, meaning I do manipulate the position of the window, but that's about it. Doing login/password is most likely possible, but I never planned/intended for that to be added. That being said, I made the source code of this freely available on github, so anyone is free to fork and alter it.

You're welcome, glad it worked!

I just double checked, but I can use the download link without issues. It points to this : http://www.rmkrs.nl/download/Net7MultiClientUnlocker.zip I was able to download it using that link. Let me know how you fare.

No problem! Sorry it took a bit to come back to you with the right location.

You can find it here : C:\Users\<<YourWindowsUserName>>\AppData\Roaming\Net7Unlocker Where <<YourWindowsUserName>> has to be filled in with yours of course. I thought it was under ProgramData but it was AppData instead.

I will have a look when I get to a pc to give you the exact location but that will take at least 6 hours.

I'm not at the pc right now and it's been a while, but the settings are stored in a file on your local drive. I think by default it is under C:\ProgramData But that folder is hidden by default in windows if I recall correctly. If you can find the settings file there you can either try to fix the file you chose by editing it. Or remove the settings file completely, but then you have to do all settings again of course. Hope this helps.