Earth and Beyond Emulator

[Rebus]

Well, I know there was a 5-minute period a few years back when there were people in the FA:OTF that played this. Anyway, there is currently an emulator project to restore the game to its state prior to sunset and then setting up a free server when it is done. For any of you guys that are interested: www.enb-emulator.com (http://www.enb-emulator.com)

Do note that ATM that combat is yet to be added and all there is to do is explore Sol and mine.

[Splitlip]

Rebus: Prepare to have my man-babies.

[Maddog]

holy crap i didnt realize this was out. <3

[SWATJester_os]

woot!

[Dr Boners]

Kickass! I loved this game.

[marty]

Too bad I don't have a client anymore

[Maddog]

soooo how the hell do you get this to work

[Captain Colon]

holy shit yes, i only played the demo of this game but i loved it....where the fuck do i get a client, what version do i need, etc?

http://forum.enb-emulator.com/index.php?showtopic=2023 here's directions....now where can I get the CDs :(

[SWATJester_os]

fuck! I just threw out my earth and beyond CD today

[Captain Colon]

there's used copies on amazon for a couple dollars...can't really go wrong

[Maddog]

i think you can download it somewhere

[Rebus]

Read the first post at http://forum.enb-emulator.com/index.php?showtopic=1777 then worry about updating the server to 348. (this'll tell you every download you need)

[Maddog]

you can download the 5day demo off of fileplanet even though it says unavailable

-e- damn it no matter what i do i keep getting the 'client out of date' error

-e2- mother fucking enb-up doesnt patch me up to version 42

[Captain Colon]

wow the demo installer sucks ASS, the first 1gb file unpacks a second 1gb+ file which unpacks the installer which is now "preparing to install" and taking up my last gig of space.

[Rebus]

Yeah. I'm hoping they improve the installer in the near-future. Gathering together the client, client patches, ini files, servers, and server patches is a bit much. Although it has gotten better since the first "playable" server release. :D

EDIT: What server were you guys on during live and what was your character(s) name?
Orion / Rebus (of course)

[Splitlip]

I need to look for my E&B CD.... but i think I tossed it when i last sorted my computer desk.
I dont remember what server I was on heh, but I played some beta and release till servers were put down.

[Captain Colon]

So far I just CTD after I make a character and actually try to play :huh:

[Rebus]

The only thing I've experienced to that effect was when I installed the 305 server, created a char, then updated server to 347. The older char would crash the server every time. But being that is unlikely in your case, dunno. :(

[Rebus]

Necro-post of my own thread with content:

There's currently a thread at the enb-emu forums for beta testers (http://forum.enb-emulator.com/index.php?showtopic=3279&st=0) for the multiplayer C++ server (not the dead JAVA one). If any of you vets wanna sign up, do so.

[Enders]

I still have a 14 day free trial disk for this I wonder if it works

[marty]

god i'm so tempted

[Rebus]

New Net-7 Server update (http://forum.enb-emulator.com/index.php?showtopic=3520)
Hi all,

finally I think we are ready for another single player release. Sorry it's been so long but the Net7 team have been taken up with a lot of re-writes and overhauls to the code (re-factoring).

The end result is probably less apparent progress than you'd think, but in reality we've made quite a lot of progress.

What's new from 474:

This is a pretty big list, and I've forgotten where we were at with 474, but here is a rough summary:


More sectors visible. Now you can admire more of the work put in by the content team, and let me tell you the sectors look incredible! Please note that because most people's PC's can only handle about 70 sectors we are forced to make a tradeoff between space sectors and stations. Therefore none of the stations outside of Sol, 61 Cygni and Alpha Centuri are working. I'll post simple instructions later on how to access the rest of the sectors.
A lot of multiplayer code has been added, although you won't be able to sample it yet. Manufacturing, Trade, Grouping and other character interaction is now working to a certain extent.
A lot of database work which is going to give us better character handling and allow us to directly import sector, station and item info from DASE for the live server. This is reserved for the live servers.
MOB overhaul - they now fire back, and have working shields. When they hit you, your shields are depleted, but no hull damage can occur. You can also follow them around.
New launcher, will make it easier to connect to the beta server when it's up.
Landable Planets. You can now visit the planets, although for some you'll appear in odd places, maybe underwater or something, and it's still possible to fly outside the planet area, which takes you into graphic-glitch-space, that strange place that exists between the angles
Sector Speed loading - the sectors should load a fair bit more quickly now.
Station docking cams.
Random Content. Space will seem a lot less empty now - you'll find MOBs cruising around, odd asteroid patches and so on. Also if you visit Arduinne planet you should find a few gas clouds down there (around the navs)!
It's been a while since I've logged in the test server but if it's still the same, yeah, it's real strange when you go into atmospheric-mode.

[Maddog]

i was never able to get the emulator to work which annoyed me