Huron

Probably good to play around a bit with the resolutions the game has and try out which one works best for how small you want the window to be. Also depends a bit on what setup you have yourself, like what monitor size and native resolution. So whatever would work well for me might not work so well for you.

Thanks for the feedback Spa, appreciated as always. Since the original one did so much (taking care of mutex, interrupting sizzle, layout, restart after crash, etc) I felt it was a bit bloated, so I started from scratch and only implemented "freeing" the client window. So you can place it wherever. But I understand that you use some of the other features. I could look into combining the two. And only add certain features to this one, like remembering a layout and applying it. And restarting crashed clients where needed. Right now the old and new tool are not really compatible as they both serve a different purpose. One is for moving clients to the layout spot you predefined, the other is for enabling you to put windows wherever you like. Doesn't even need to be during multi boxing, could be a single client as well. I'll think about it some more. Thanks for taking the time and trying it out!

I created a new tool which I dubbed "Net7Dock". It basically wraps around the original client and makes the client window resizable and moveable, just like "normal" windows applications do. So instead of controlling where everything is, like I did with the multi client unlocker, it just "unlocks" the original game window. So you can place them anywhere you want, manually. Or use the docking features of Win11, etc. I created a new github repo for this, which can be found here: https://github.com/Rmkrs/Net7Dock I also made sure to add the release there, so we (hopefully) won't have anymore issues with downloads "from my website" etc. The release page can be found here: https://github.com/Rmkrs/Net7Dock/releases When the tool is started is nestles itself in the system tray, so it does not show any gui. You can find it there by looking for the Earth and Beyond logo (icon). And once a game client is started (or an existing game client found) it will work it's magic on it. If anyone cares to test, let me know what you think Fly safe. Hurons.

@Spa It's just a file hosted on a webserver, nothing fancy. I can download it and so can the independent link check tool. So it's probably some safety measure on your computer. If I had to guess it's because it's a file that's not downloaded very often, so that might prevent some browser or some anti virus from downloading it. I remember sending you the file, since you already had issue back then. Not something I can fix from the webserver side I'm afraid. Maybe if I get some spare time, I could look into hosting it on github as a release or something. Perhaps that helps, but in fairness I think the same issue might happen there for you.

Well that is funny. Because if I check the url with Filescan.io, this is the result: So not only is the URL working, but it could download the zip file, find the executables in it and scan them for threats. Not sure what to tell you

The link on the first page/initial post, should point to this: http://www.rmkrs.nl/download/Net7MultiClientUnlocker.zip And if I go here manually, I can download it. So for me it's working. Let me know if this works for you.

It stores its config in an xml file that can be found in your ApplicationData folder, so should be in "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Net7Unlocker" It should contain a file called "settingsv2.xml" iirc. Inside it should have a settings called PathToNet7Launcher

Of course, no worries. Even though I don't get to play much anymore, this game will always have a special place in my heart and anything I can do to help, I will. I'm not sure if calling my tool "a gui" is appropriate, given how ugly it looks and how old it is haha. But I get your point. Not all of us are technically inclined. Was thinking back just now on how things evolved for the emulator. I remember many years ago, when all "the server" could do was have you open the game and log into a station. Back then I was helping out the data entry team, putting all the known navs, gates, etc into a tool. Look at where we are now. Makes me want to jump in and play, but it's not on top of my todo list so alas 😅

Verified with different browsers, most kept caching indeed. Also tested with wget, which was failing before for me as well, and is now working. So looks much better. And have now switched to a different monitoring platform. So hopefully this won't happen again or at least I will be notified much sooner when it does.

@Codemonkeyx Well that's embarrassing 😅 I beefed up security on my firewall rules a while ago (some months) and in doing so I was actively denying traffic from cloudlfare coming in 🤣 The million dollar question is, what is a better monitoring platform for automatic monitoring of my sites that -does- report issues to me. Because it seems the one I have now was also using some cached version for some reason. So while I search for a replacement, meanwhile the site should be reachable again. Sorry for the interruption. Could you verify and let me know if it's ok for you as well now? Thanks!

I don't know what to say. Just tried down for anyone or just me and you are absolutely correct... None of my monitoring picked this up so that's even worse. Going to see what's going on, thanks for reporting it.

Heya @Codemonkeyx of course I can re-host them elsewhere as well. But for me the download link is working, the files are on my webserver. And my website monitoring tools report no problems. So I wonder why the links would appear dead to you.

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.