Multiplicity 1.05 is out!!!

One more release until Mac OS X!!

Published on May 18, 2006 By ZubaZ In Multiplicity

1.05 release
------------
-Updates to clipboard handler to account for secondaries
potentially being off and causing lag while pasting.
-Updates to connection code to account for secondaries
potentially being off when reconnecting.
-Tested against Windows Vista pre-release 5381 (x86 and x64).
Should remain happy on the upcoming Beta 2 build.
-Updated activate.exe to allow translation (activate.lng) and
added up-front checking for potentially invalid serials or
other customer issues.

-With the release of this version, the next set of
updates should include a beta of OS X support for Intel and PPC.

Comments (Page 2)

ZubaZ

on May 22, 2006

OK, on the secondary:
Installed. Rebooted. Configured.
Troubleshooter showed everything OK at first but on retry showed winlogon failure.
Stardock MP service is set to auto start but is stopped. On start attempt I get error that the system can't find the path.
MPVista is not running, Multipl.exe is.

On the primary. Uninstalled and reinstalled to fix versioning. All is 1.05 now. The uninstall left lots of MP entries in the reg. It sure would be nice if they were all removed at uninstall.

Gonna reboot secondary again.

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Neil Banfield

on May 22, 2006

The app should show 1.05.

Can you provide a directory listing of the files in the MP directory on your secondary please.

ZubaZ

on May 22, 2006

Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 8842-F506

Directory of C:\Program Files\Stardock\ThinkDesk\Multiplicity

05/22/2006 09:28 AM .
05/22/2006 09:28 AM ..
05/11/2006 12:42 PM 674,992 Activate.exe
05/11/2006 12:15 PM 15,882 Activate.lng
03/03/2006 05:03 PM 4,729 eula.txt
05/17/2006 02:56 PM 9,796 history.txt
05/22/2006 08:23 AM 1,497 INSTALL.LOG
05/22/2006 09:28 AM 0 listing.txt
03/13/2006 07:03 PM 54,960 MpVista.exe
08/17/2005 05:26 PM 44,032 MpVista64.exe
05/17/2006 01:54 PM 30,384 multiP.dll
05/16/2006 02:05 PM 2,234,032 Multipl.exe
02/27/2005 05:40 PM 650 multipl.exe.manifest
05/18/2005 12:58 PM 1,819,040 Multiplicity_UserGuide.pdf
03/17/2006 04:02 PM 235,184 MultiSrv32.exe
05/17/2006 07:23 PM 337,920 Multisrv64.exe
03/13/2006 07:06 PM 95,920 MultiWin32.dll
03/06/2006 12:49 PM 111,616 MultiWin64.dll
02/27/2005 05:40 PM 113 order.url
05/16/2006 03:25 PM 7,104 readme.txt
05/22/2006 08:23 AM 256 sig.bin
03/18/2006 03:36 PM 108,647 wise_post.exe
20 File(s) 5,786,754 bytes
2 Dir(s) 12,402,114,560 bytes free

Sorry for the formatting, it looks great in edit mode.

ZubaZ

on May 22, 2006

Uninstalled on primary
Rebooted
MP service still there. No default path.
Deleted service from cmd prompt
Deleted reg entries
Rebooting and will reinstall . . .

ZubaZ

on May 22, 2006

I'm done.
Everything has been reinstalled and rebooted a hundred times (it feels that way at least).
The last test had the mouse getting lost when moving to the primart to the secondary. I turned on screen darkening on teh primary and the secondary went dark. So I know a message is getting through. But then the primary goes dim too. At least the mouse comes back to life after a bit. It appears in the upper corner of the side the secondary is at.

For completeness sake, here is the dir listing of the primary:

Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is ACD6-29A2

Directory of C:\Program Files\Stardock\ThinkDesk\Multiplicity

05/22/2006 11:01 AM .
05/22/2006 11:01 AM ..
05/11/2006 12:42 PM 674,992 Activate.exe
05/11/2006 12:15 PM 15,882 Activate.lng
03/03/2006 05:03 PM 4,729 eula.txt
05/17/2006 02:56 PM 9,796 history.txt
05/22/2006 08:57 AM 2,575 INSTALL.LOG
05/22/2006 11:01 AM 0 listing.txt
03/13/2006 07:03 PM 54,960 MpVista.exe
08/17/2005 05:26 PM 44,032 MpVista64.exe
05/17/2006 01:54 PM 30,384 multiP.dll
05/16/2006 02:05 PM 2,234,032 Multipl.exe
02/27/2005 05:40 PM 650 multipl.exe.manifest
05/22/2006 11:01 AM 616 Multiplicity.lnk
05/18/2005 12:58 PM 1,819,040 Multiplicity_UserGuide.pdf
03/17/2006 04:02 PM 235,184 MultiSrv32.exe
05/17/2006 07:23 PM 337,920 Multisrv64.exe
03/13/2006 07:06 PM 95,920 MultiWin32.dll
03/06/2006 12:49 PM 111,616 MultiWin64.dll
02/27/2005 05:40 PM 113 order.url
05/16/2006 03:25 PM 7,104 readme.txt
05/22/2006 08:57 AM 256 sig.bin
03/18/2006 03:36 PM 108,647 wise_post.exe
21 File(s) 5,788,448 bytes
2 Dir(s) 6,987,702,272 bytes free

mnix01

on May 22, 2006

I have to say, I'm pretty dissapointed. Looking at the features in this update, you're putting better checking to make sure people are paying for your product, support for an operating system that isn't out, nor will be for 6 months, and some cosmetic fixes. But wait, OS X support that has been promised for 2 years is coming REAL soon now, compared to soon 2 years ago. And......still no linux support. Vista will be out soon and take over much of the desktop replacement functionality, and if Synergy continues down the path they're on, at what point do I give up on Stardock for their lackadaisical attitude towards the customer and stop using their products altogether? Who knows, maybe there is nobody else that has wanted to combine PC's, Mac's, and linux, and the development has been better put towards things that make money. Then again, build it and they will come. I guess we'll find out when a company willing to focus on this area produces a quality product.

Neil Banfield

on May 22, 2006

OSX support has not been promised for 2 years! Multiplicity itself has only been out just over a year!

It seems strange that you complain about us adding Vista support (which is important as we have customers who use the betas of Vista as well as internal staff who use MP when developing on Vista), yet then say Vista will be out soon.

I am curious to know what you expected from a minor point release update. Minor point releases are basically for fixes and minor tweaks.

Next on the development list is support for grid configurations and the OSX secondary support previously mentioned. If there is anything else in particular you are interested in, then please let us know.

mnix01

on May 22, 2006

Well let's see. I purchased Multiplicity over a year ago. It was in development and beta long before that, with OS X support promised then. This forum has people asking in April of 2005 how much longer OS X support was going to take. Vista is in BETA. It is not a released product. What percentage of the population actually have their hands on it? Microsoft expects to release it in November of 2006. Considering OS X support has been "In development" since well before April of 2005, that's soon by those standards. Soon means, I expect Vista to be out before this finally happens.

Do I expect more from a minor point release? Per se, no, but I specifically purchased the produce over a year ago expecting what Stardock said was going to be "soon". What am I interested in? OS X support that has long been promised (when Vista was being called Longhorn, and had aero glass desktop displays). I'd also like Linux support. Stardock has said they have an internal linux and OS X version, and given OS X is BSD based, it can't be too difficult to have them both out.

Lets look at the forums here.
April 05, how much longer for OS X support?
June 05, we're busy moving.
June 05, in development should be in the 1.1 release. Timeline, This summer (05), we're moving, taking vacations, etc.
Sep 05, We're beta testing internally, it should show up soon.
Dec 05, (after numerous posts of when) Q1 of 06 Multiplicity 1.1 and OS X support
April 06, (after Q1) We've obtained an Intel mac and hope once Keepsafe is released we can release a beta.
May 06.......The next release is gonna do it, really. We promise this time.
Got a new timeline on that?

When you look at this history, perhaps you can understand the frustration of many. Yes, Apple's market share is 3.2%, and the people who have Macs and PC's, or Mac's and Linux and or all three is some fraction of that. But at least you could have taken the OS X in development off the Multiplicity page and let us know that it was the absolutely last thing on your list of things to do now, or anything else that might come up in the future. Heck, Keepsafe wasn't released till 4/10 and this was delayed yet again for that. We seem to be in the exact same position in April 06 as we were Jun of 05.

I'm sorry if you think I'm calling your baby ugly, but this is a business selling a commercial product, not something downloaded off of Sourceforge. If you promise something, deliver it, or someone else will and you will lose the loyalty of your customers. Then again, perhaps you've already looked at the numbers, and the market share of customers who care about this won't significantly impact your bottom line if they leave. We'll never really know. I can say that I had been prepared to purchase between 10 and 50 copies of Thinkdesk at my company (depending on demand), and specifically didn't because I felt I couldn't rely upon you. Given that we don't use Mac's, did this matter? Technically no, but if I can't trust a vendor, I'm not giving them my money. How many other people are there like me?

JohnBianchi

on May 22, 2006

Well said.

I purchased Multiplicity to help development of a linux version, which I saw was in the works. As the talk of a Linux ver is without a release date, I now wonder if development has moved to other things and this may never come to pass.

ZubaZ

on May 23, 2006

Please do not poke the dev until my problem is resolved.

c242

on May 24, 2006

Last time I had this happen I cured the problems installing the build from the seperate download instead of the one on SDC. I didn't have luck with that now.

c242

on May 24, 2006

Okay, on one secondary (W2k3 Server) the 'Stardock Multiplicity' service isn't able to run. It is set to automatic start, but isn't started. When I try to start it I get 'Error : 216: 0xd8'

c242

on May 24, 2006

2nd secondary (Notebook with XP) works.

ZubaZ

on May 24, 2006

2nd secondary (Notebook with XP) works.

Can you run a global diff to find the difference? Neil has gotten awfully quiet.

c242

on May 24, 2006

Well 2003 Server vs. XP, that is all.

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