@Grey:
… now you got me wracking my ole brain to remember to the name of the two primary “Packet Switch” networks we used to hop as a gateway to get to a BBS in a far away city without that big phone bill. … My dear wife made the foolish mistake of buying me on our first anniversary a blistering fast 1200buad modem…
BTW, Glad to see someone has the patience to still use Windows 98SE for gaming. But with Freelancer and MOD’s you will have issues with DLL referenced “Infocard” descriptions on the larger MODs. Â Names and Descriptions will start to come back with only “IDS” where text should be.
Well, I never found out how to “hop” a gateway, but I remember having an out-of-date list of such, and trying to explore their command structure. I think 1 of them was GTE. (Your wife sounds like a keeper. She gave you a modem, not a tie?!)
I really do think there are a lot more Win98 users out here than people think. The whole XP activation/registration fiasco turned off a lot of people. Though I can understand Micro$uck$ reasoning, it was way too “big brother” for many people’s taste. And while I don’t spend a lot of time in forums, when I Google around on various topics, I see a great many “Your problem relates to Vista…”. As a demographic, I think we are ignored because we are seen as cheap Luddites, and the developers are pushed into keeping up with the ‘latest, greatest’.
While I have dl’d a few interesting looking mods, I haven’t yet installed any, so yes, I understand there may be issues. I’ll worry about that later.
BUT, let me get back to the topic:
M0tah, I contacted Jason Hood regards FLHack. His answer:
“Yeah, I never thought anyone would still be running Win9X. I have just put up a new version on my site which should now run in that environment.”
A very responsive gentleman. The new version works on my Win98SE. For any one interested, the link for FLHack v1.33 is here:
http://adoxa.110mb.com/freelancer/flhack.zip
So, to summarize the state of this thread:
It is possible to run 2 instances of Freelancer on one machine by,
a) Hex editing offset 0x1e6dcc of the Freelancer.exe, replacing “F” with 0x00
b) Using FLHack, by Jason Hood
If FLHack returns the error,
“A device attached to the system is not functioning.”
“The FLHACK.EXE file is linked to missing export SHELL32.DLL:SHGetFolderPathW.”,
you need to update FLHack to v1.33.
There is a wealth of useful information in http://the-starport.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=403.0
Running 2 (or more) instances is primarily a testing environment.
There are knowledgeable, patient, helpful people roaming around this site.
There are a lot of crazy old coots roaming around this site.
Thank you, Motah, Grey Wolf, Lancer Solurus, StarTrader, foxUnit01. You’re pretty good guys (or gals, who knows?).
I would guess that “officially” finalizes the topic. So, if anyone cares to, feel free to spin off on other tangents.
foxUnit, I believe you are maintaining the “Limit Breaking” thread? Any interest in my putting it into a spreadsheet, and making it available? I’m planning to do it anywy, for my own use. If so, any thing you’d like to see in it?