MultiBox

[Xarry]

Duh, thanks for that, brain freeze I knew it was going to be something simple.

[mikedoggy]

im new to this and trying to search for how these things work for daoc and am having a hard time finding mcuh information about daoc, it seems you all play wow :P

currently i play 3 accounts on 3 pcs with no software and am able to play all 3 better thenmost play one, which doesnt say much we all know theres alot of bad players in mmorpgs.

i would like to be able to use one keyboard to control all the pcs and accounts... but id really love to play 6 accounts on 3 pcs and not have to alt tab for every little thing.

so my question is will i be able to do either of those with this program for daoc? im going to dl and try but servers down :P but if any tips or experience to share id appreciate it.

[Ghallo]

Mike, try out Octopus listed in the stickies. It actually does everything this app does and more.

[Air]

Hi,

I experienced DualBox for about a month now, using Multiplicity, for tests purpose.

However, I experienced several issue, from cursor madness to loosing the server.

I then search on google and find this great forum

I've tested the past 2 days Synergy, Multibox and Octopus.

I've found quite what i was searching with Multibox, but I'm experincing frequent crash issue since i'm using Windows Vista.

As I am a software developper, I would have like to debug the code to had a better Vista support, and if succeded post the changes here for who might be interested.

Is there a way to download the source code ?
As the First link is down I can't find a way to have it.

Thanks for your help

[Otlecs]

I still have the source for the original version (the version I'm running, the most basic "press a key, send a key" incarnation). As I recall, it's freely distributable so PM me with an email address and I'll send it to you.

Be advised, however, that it was originally intended to be in some way portable, so intead of using the MFC or similar it depends on an obscure cross-platform presentation library.

It also depends on a specific version of that obscure library.

It took me a good half day to get it up and running when I was trying to debug a connection issue (turned out to be reverse dns lookup timeout, fixed with hostfile entries), so you may have your work cut out.

Still, drop me a PM and I'll send you the unmolested source. Please do not expect any level of assistance / support though - I haven't touched it since the Spring, and I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night, let alone what hoops I jumped through to get it building back then!

I use a mixed XP/vista setup too, and have occasional crashes, occasional "screen jumps" (you'll know what I mean, I suspect!) and occasional "oh dear, the mouse is stuck on a screen and it's not the main screen" moments, all of which are a real pain when they happen but are infrequent enough that I can't be bothered to actually look at fixing them

[Air]

Hi !

First, thanks for your quick answer !

And yes, I've experienced the same issues with the XP/Vista Combo, that's why I wanted to try and fix some of the bugs that may occur on Vista System, before launching my own DualBoxing experience.
(Would not want to start leveling and have to stop again and again because of stability issue)

Concerning the cross plateform library, I would have like to port it to classic MFC, for stability purpose. (and of course ease of coding, since I write MFC code for 7 years know, I rarelly use straigth Win32 code)
If I succedeed in the fix I thinking about, I will post the software here for those interested in.
Do worry, I would not ask for support, I know that the piece of code may not have been supported for a long time now.

I send you a PM right now, thanks again for your help.