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  1. Posted

    Well did the install in the following order. I think I updated the patch twice because I just hit return to every guestion asked by the game install..I did read them

    but had no better ideas then yes for most.

     

    So again did the following and all went well. I even used Searing an account I thought lost for 10 years and it pop'd up. It was lost in a crash but somehow after I left

    and was not around for those years...some DEV must have found/fixed it ...that was kinda nice.

     

    Anyway the steps below on full and 'fresh' install on an Alienware R14 Laptop with all the bells and whistles and Windows !0 with current patches.

     

    Steps again were:

     

    1) Run the old original file eandb_demo.exe (let it chug awhile)

     

    2) Then you install the file enb_up.exe (the upgrade patch)

     

    3) Then the Net-7_Install.exe

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    4) Then run the puppy and it will update itself.

     

    So it was pretty painless.

     

    My only suggestion is in the actual area on www.net-7.org where you downlooad this a 'brief' text file for newbies (I knew this) that (1) you can create characters

    in game as an option also you don't need to run character creator addon. (2) The proper order on above. I suspect I did NOT need to run (2) then enb_up.exe upgrade patch.

    It seems to me that running Net-7_install.exe did that as well. Worked fine but did not likely need that duplication of effort. Anyway a suggestion.

     

    Other than above review on an install after frigging what at least 7 years or so. All is well with EnB emulator on the new 1 year old Alienware Laptop.

     

    By the By the reason for the move:

     

    I got tired of Windows 10 on 3 machines so on a one a desktop and the old enb win 10 Toshiba p500 (10 years old) I put on Lubuntu 19.04 and will use them as a

    5 min install to just run them for web pages for gmail etc. I got tired of all the anti-spyware and advanced system care and the croaks on 2x a year windows 10

    updates (especially the 10 year old toshiba machine) Thus when I really need a windows 10 machine (like for enb) I will simply use the standing desk one of the

    Alienware laptop. Still a pain sometimes but hell, better than keeping 3 of these up..when the other 2 I mostly use for web based action anyway. As an FYI.

     

    later

     

    Brad

     

  2. Posted · Edited by Searing

    Well found my old account. Seems I've been slapped down to 'member'...serves me right for not following the 'way' of EnB and its Zen like Project.

     

    Anyway,  let me know how this Windows 10 thing works out, if as in above message. And I'll see if I can install it without blowing up my laptop

     

    nor the Server. (you laugh, ask some of the oldtimers of my antics)

     

    good to be back :)

     

    have time now 'retired' and bored out of my gord

     

    The game Server Avatar is fine an hunky dory..just been away from the forms.

     

    Folk can PM me on here if they wish and or post here on how the project is going...looks fine from my end of the forum

     

    later

     

    brad

  4. Posted

    Aaaactuallym EA is a pretty good company.

    The things they did in the past made it possible for us to have the enjoyment we have today.

     

    So yeah, EA keep up the good work and with people as dedicated as the devs we have in the new enb, future gamers will have a great time.

    er......different EA maybe

     

     

     

    here is a link

    http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/electronic-arts-named-worst-company-america-again-170932002.html

     

     

    anyhoo...consistency the hall mark of greatness

     

     

    Searing

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    Just fo a bit of context....I found the project in Spring of 1987 I think it was ..Evermore I think found the project around the same time. I (not being a programmer and not knowing any better) had saved all my files from beta test EnB original to the last nite in 2004 when orig EnB shut down....it was my hope that someday somehow somebody ..would program some small APP that I hoped would allow me to at least fly around in game on my own computer and reminisce at least about the 'lost' game Earth and Beyond

     

    So doing a google search I found the EnB emulator project and "gasp" they had ...dare I dream...a "SINGLE PLAYER VERSION OF THE ACTUAL GAME' you could fly around in and use commands and actually do stuff....I was in heaven....

     

    Then reading further on I saw they actually we're working on a SERVER......I was dumb founded...

     

    So Jan 1st of 2008 I think it was the first Stress Test was up for the server and lots of folks tried it (it promptly died) but fun was had by all ....my computer tried to kill me (you can ask others about this they were in TS at the time ...a/c brick kept heating up and shorting out)...

     

    So keep in mind we have gone from ST1 to LIVE in 5yrs almost exactly....the project in background mode was probably 2 or 3 years before that..there are inactive DEV's on this game who all they ever did was type stuff from prima guide and other sources into EXCEL spreadsheets...shudder

     

     

    anyway consider the distance traveled and also the fact to the best of my knowledge this is by far the largest working MMORPG Free emulator project that has ever managed to actually hang together and work to get a a LIVE version....

     

    most of these kinda pie in the sky naïve (sorry who ever thought we could do this was deluded ...I mean it worked but back in the day you the founders of this were deluded..no hard feelings but..really)

     

    so play the game and to the best of my knowledge all the  people involved donating time and effort will try to keep it afloat....and free and the server up etc

     

    but in case you have not figured it out yet ......THIS IS HARD......

     

    i'll end it on that note

     

    Searing

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  7. Posted

    In case anyone is looking for me on nites for a bit...had  an issue with the last patch and have to do a re-install for the game and tools and what  not...i'll try to get it done sometime this weekend...if i can't get the modern win7 machine back to spec..i'll dig out the evil laptop from the attic and get on with that...

     

    anyway at least i'm not Sick again.....anyway just so folks no if late nite is light on game masters this weekend that is whats up

     

    my 2c worth

     

    Searing

     

     

     

  8. Posted

    In case anyone is looking for me on nites for a bit...had  an issue with the last patch and have to do a re-install for the game and tools and what  not...i'll try to get it done sometime this weekend...if i can't get the modern win7 machine back to spec..i'll dig out the evil laptop from the attic and get on with that...

     

    anyway at least i'm not Sick again.....anyway just so folks no if late nite is light on game masters this weekend that is whats up

     

    my 2c worth

     

    Searing

     

     

     

  9. Posted · Edited by Dakynos
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    yeah i had this happen 1 month or so ago...i was looking at some "artful pictures of the female body unclad" ..and FBI warning went up from the Monrypak  virus and I "swear" i dang near had a heart attack..in about 2 secs i recovered but it basically shouts "you are in violation etc" ...anyway this newer version of the monypak virus Avast could not clean it up ( even the newest version) it basically took down my Malywarebytes product (i had to reinstall)..spyware blaster it sailed on by.... I then did finally do a system restore and it worked ok...it was plenty evil little beasty...blasted thru all my anit-virus stuff i even downloaded AVG it also did not work..only thing that worked was the system restore...i'd just do that if practical and don't bother with wasting a day on the rest.....

     

    my 2c worth

    Searing

  10. Posted

    I have a 15 percent loss on 1500 hits...not sure what this node is

    207.88.14.194.ptr.us.xo.net 15 963 828 23 27 267 24


    this was at around 11:45pm 2/15/2013

     

     

     

    ok ...did a global trace via a map function it is ...........drum roll please...... Wichita Kansas

     

    (we have found the problem it is Kansas.........)

     

    anyway complete report below


    WinMTR statistics
    Host % Sent Recv Best Avrg Wrst Last
    192.168.0.1 0 1501 1501 0 0 227 0
    10.148.120.1 0 1501 1501 5 8 113 8
    dtr01mnktmn-tge-0-0-1-2.mnkt.mn.charter.com 0 1501 1501 5 9 109 6
    dtr01owtnmn-tge-0-1-1-0.owtn.mn.charter.com 1 1497 1496 6 9 100 8
    crr01owtnmn-tge-0-0-0-10.owtn.mn.charter.com 0 1501 1501 6 10 109 10
    crr01stcdmn-tge-0-3-0-3.stcd.mn.charter.com 0 1501 1501 13 22 118 25
    bbr01stcdmn-bue-2.stcd.mn.charter.com 1 1497 1496 14 22 128 15
    ip65-46-47-77.z47-46-65.customer.algx.net 0 1501 1501 14 19 119 16
    vb1710.rar3.chicago-il.us.xo.net 1 1497 1496 24 31 254 28
    207.88.14.194.ptr.us.xo.net 15 963 828 23 27 267 24
    206.111.2.10.ptr.us.xo.net 1 1493 1491 24 30 225 25
    te-2-4.bb-d.ws.mkc.us.oneandone.net 0 1501 1501 35 39 143 40
    ae-105.bb-c.ws.mkc.us.oneandone.net 1 1497 1496 35 39 256 38
    ae-11.bb-c.ms.mkc.us.oneandone.net 0 1501 1501 35 39 137 38
    ae-10.bb-c.slr.lxa.us.oneandone.net 1 1497 1496 35 39 259 38
    ae-11.gw-distp-a.slr.lxa.oneandone.net 1 1497 1496 35 44 343 210
    ae-1.gw-prtr-r4-1a.slr.lxa.oneandone.net 1 1497 1496 35 43 377 38
    u15438806.onlinehome-server.com 5 1267 1208 35 43 312 39


    anyway

    Searing

  12. Posted · Edited by Dakynos

    don't let the screen door hit you on the way out.....and I  assume when we do the content push which is on hold due to our server devs efforts to re-write code for the load problems you will do what all a***holes do after such rant filled posts ..go ....gee..its not set in stone and they tweaked/fixed stuff and limp into this FREE ....reincarnated game... with another toon name and play anyway....but i suspect you don't remember the 2002 games from the past ..they had a different play feel then you rember... imho .....perhaps you should move on to more 'modern flashy" games

    something to match your attention span.....and obvious egomania issues

     

     

     

    Searing

  13. Posted

    quote:

    On a side note, how many played on 56k or worse? I did and it actually wasn't THAT bad. Except during raids. Or Old Nick. wow the lag that used to accompany that jolly old elf.

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    i played from work on a 56k modem till around Nov of 2012...then the place got broadband...(i had a free dial up account from when i was a tech for the place way back in 1996 or so....so the place got bought out by numerous corporations from a small town ISP to across the USA ..i had a friend Don Guse (Qazz) who has since passed away ..but he worked for Unisys/nNasa and said i was so buried in the "beast of the machine" thru the many mergers they'd never figure it out...they did kinda when i told them Nov 2012..that funny the dial up did not work ..er they had gotten rid of dial up network that month...(heh silly me thought it was broke did my duty as a tech and told them)  and they were by the by  wayt "who the heck are you and why do you have a tech service account on our corp/isp?)...anyway it went no farther then that...... i still have web email access to the place ...the dialup went away. they have no broadband in this area ......i assume the low level manager  types went ..heck he called in with what he thought was a legit tech problem ....(kinda the dialup network was shut down) ...so he thinks he is a tech for us for the free account since the birth of the web......er..do we really wanna tell the higher ups that he has had tech access to the network for the last 16yrs and we did not know about it ...thus said i think the little email web access i have with my tech tag is probably gonna be ok...heh

     

    anyway back in the early ISP days everything was on a handsake i have  a large corp/phone co. Inet box line to my house cause on a handshake the guy who owned the ISP at the time had all his equip for his area in my house and my game/server bbs had ..i don't know T3 access back in the day when it was $2k a month not to mention his equip..things moved fast then..of course that was probably 15 corp sales ago and this guy is probably retired in Bermuda (after the sale to the big guys ..he seems to have had better places to go then southern minnesota)

     

    so ...needless to say i still have the web part of my service account access....what the heck it is an email....( i imagine it would be hard for the corp minions in chicago to explain to the higher ups in new york ...er me....

     

    anyway i digress

     

    56k works really good on those days that anonymous is trying to hack google or large blizzards etc ...so when i had a lot of lag in game and everyone was yelling how much it sucks (usually no more then 2x a year this kinda thing) i'd log on the game with the dialup at 56k viola...no lag ..the modem was to slow to know...so no hic-ups at all ..i'd get on an tell everyone that i was playing lag free on my 56k modem and people generally were not amusused...alas my 16yr free dialup account is gone (er they were charging 26.95/m for dialup ...well even the sticks of southern minnesota that don't work anymore even we have broadband now)....so yeah if you have access to a dialup account thru a local univ or something it works great on those days that weather or other reasons there is a lot of lag

     

    now what i really should do is drag out some even older computers i have load them up with hmmm...i think EnB could only run on win98 prob it could run on win95 and fire the beast up and see if i could get the game to launch

     

    er hey guys just kidding ..boy them coder's are touchy...hey whats with the torches and pitchforks....

     

    er gotta go

     

    Searing splits

  15. Posted

    Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for  the news.

     

    Yep should be no more wipes in that we actually got the game back ie LIVE ie really for real up w/o the usual qualifying stuff most emulators still have like stress test or beta

     

    I think we probably are the first of this size ....mmorpg game as a free emulator to reach this point...............

     

    anyway....you wanted the game back its back......

     

    my 2c worth

     

    Searing

  16. Posted

    You had to ask....the Searing's Evil Laptop (ask around I will not bore you with the details of how evil the laptop is/was that will be evident enough if you ask around)....is a Compaq Evo N800v laptop...it was released in 2002.??...it is the end of the Evo line....the biggest problem was the BIOS is un-upgradeable in anyway...the theory is that this particular laptop was barely able to run XP and with the un-upgradeable BIOS made all sorts of problems for the Devs here. (All them little check boxes on launcher..yep the  evil laptop) anyway rather then make me scrap the thing I think the staff here was determined to get it/keep it in game (they say different but someone always managed to find a fix to limp the beast in)

     

    anyway you can if you wish ask about its many evil ways.....most stories you hear are NOT exagerated it really is evil...and yes it really did try to KILL me on Stress Test 1.....(no kidding)

     

     

    Anyway ...its function now is I pull it out of the attic every 6 months and see if it patches nice w/o fixes and shortcuts and other exotic means to log on (no boxes checked etc) ...for the past 2yrs it has worked just fine...and then occasionally when Tienbau or other staff/devs .(coder devs seem to like to see if it is whip'd in shape)....is on he asks or I tell him it still patches...and the devs come away with a warm fuzzy feeling that the won the war.

     

    I myself think it is laying in wait to be evil again ...but maybe that is just me

     

    so avoid this laptop model at all costs (no wonder compaq is kaput) ....never get a Compaq Evo N800v ...my only excuse was it was given to me.....(probably because it was evil)

     

    my 2c worth

    Searing

  18. Posted

    Well this is the track the EA should take IMHO.....I mean FOX is not exactly less of a "dark empire" itself ...for simple PR reasons FOX is getting good play in the news media for giving permission for this kickstarter campaign to get this defunct Firefly MMO back on track ...quote below:

     

     

     

     

    Is the dream of a Firefly MMO still flying? The folks at DarkCryo Entertainment think so. The unlikely project seemed doomed due to an unauthorized use of the IP, but that may have changed.

    DarkCryo posted a notice on the project's Facebook page indicating that Fox has given something of a go-ahead: "With the well wishes of Fox Entertainment Group, we have reactivated the FUO MMORPG Facebook page in preparation for our upcoming Kickstarter campaign. A popular alpha launch may re-awaken licensing consideration, in which case we may then include an expansion pack containing derivative content."

    According to the counter on the front page, the crowdsourcing attempt to fund further development will begin in 16 days. Firefly Universe Online was officially (or unofficially, as the case may be) announced back in June of 2011.

     

     

     

    here is the link:

    http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/01/04/firefly-universe-online-reactivates-with-foxs-blessing/?a_dgi=aolshare_facebook

     

     

     

    here is the link to the bring back firefly page

     

    https://www.facebook.com/#!/BringBackFirefly

     

     

     

    Well...nice to see someone pulled it off

     

    Searing

     

     


     

  19. Posted

    yes enb icon works and is set to normal but n7 won't work

    you need to get teamspeak 3 and get on our teamspeak channel and yell for a staff

     

    Freak -dev is good at this stuff with teamviewer

     

    to get on teamspeak ......google teamspeak 3 download the free client

     

    pick a chat handle and use net-7.org as connection info

     

    that would be my suggestion especially evenings and holidays staff should be around

     

    if you don't have a mic you can get into teamspeak and hear them and type but i'd get a mic an download the TS 3 stuff and go from there will be much easier to fix this way i think

     

    (i of course am not helpful at all being is is 2:45am cst

     

    good luck

     

    Searing

  21. Posted

    Sigh .... 

     

     

     So I came back after being too sick to play for ages and ages ... I reloaded this on to a new laptop and everyhting set up fine ,,,, wehn I try logging into the game the username is what I show here , and I use the password for here , nada she says " i'm sorry I am still unable to validate your login info over and over ! Help! ?
    :blush:

    sent you a pm to the forums here

     

    searing

  22. Posted

    I have the same message but I bought a new computer with W-7 on it . I have loaded and reloaded everything on the download page and followed all the fixes with no luck. Any help out there????????????

    get on teamspeak 3 net-7.org for address

     

    ask for help there

     

    also do a force update go to help under adv settings hit force update nothing will happen but close and re-launch launcher and it should auto update see if that helps

     

    but teamspeak is best bet

     

    searing

  23. Posted

    What happens at that limit?? no more logins possible??

     

    er uh...*shuffles feet....looks at floor ..whistles...." (hey if microsoft can do such for windows 8)

     

    fyi people have been working on it all nite just an FYI server devs that is....so we are not lacking trying

     

    Searing

  25. Posted

    The biggest obstacle we face is lack of people with the time/expertise and of course....just being plain "nuts" who can server code for the project. I don't code myself (I however will  always be available should a need for apple ][ Appplesoft BASIC from 1983 ..be needed and or ..should the need arise)...however from what I understand...you pretty much have to be an 'up to date' coder for the efforts here at the project.."i.e. know your crap ..so to speak.....(which usually means you code this stuff for a living...much like the WEB devs) ..then all fired up from your coding at work M-F ..you rush home at 'no pay' to code here at the project with "no source code" nor "instructions"  on how it is compiled and of course for the wonderful amount of $000000 dollars..the Server Devs get......(which is beyond my meager $00 dollars I get as a Game Master GM).....I think perhaps you begin to see the problem...You also from what I gather from Dev conversations the added "bonus" of trolling thru old code from server devs past....and most likely have to re-do/figure out and or replace their stuff when that inevitable "oops it blew up" moment arrives and the Server Hamsters rebel....we have had an "improvement" of some note however 2 of the server devs are in Europe so when the Server Hamsters inevitably rebel on a Wednesday night say at 3am ...it is possible from their day jobs in Europe they "may" see the server is down and do something about it ...much better when we only had 2 server devs and they both had to work and ..selfish that they were sleep ..in that they were both here in the USA..which meant we sometimes had 15hr turnabouts for server restarts during the week.

     

    To end it is kinda also a "chicken and egg" problem....we went LIVE after massive testing on the Dev Server (yep we have one of those) and all looked hunky dory...then we find that 400 to 500 people on *much like the keggers of my youth at the old fraternity caused some unanticipated neighborhood issues" ...er..... seemed to put a strain on the code/servers etc....so w/o going LIVE we would have been ignorant of the problem in that the large influx of people would not have happened....to point out that more coding needed to be done.....

     

    so by all means if you know of some dedicated types who can server code at this level without real life issues / wife or girlfriend ARGO/  or are eccentric and independently wealthy and want to do this for fun and giggles send them our way....

     

    but most of if not all of IMHO work in some manner on the project at LEAST 20hrs  a week with no $$$ ....no matter what level of staff...but alas....we can't just flip a switch yet and keep the server up

     

    as always this is my rant and I take full responsibility for it....incoherent though it may be.....but even at the best of times no matter what your skills towards the project 3 out of 4 who attempt to becom staff.. say pretty much "you guys are nuts" and walk away ..which probably is the sensible response to reviving a MMORPG from nothing but the install CD's and no instructions...but luckily sanity is not a real big issue here should you want to help the project ..thank goodness

     

    anyway it is what it is Server wise..IMHO

     

    my 2c worth

     

    Searing   

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