Multi boxing for friends and company

Level1Techs INBOX.deb
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To whom this may concern,

 

ive had the idea in my head for a while that , 

since i have a nice powerful desktop, 

that it would be super awesome to just have that spare monitor mouse keyboard controller, which is on my desk 

all of which are on like 20ft extensions over in the other part of the living room,

and just let a friend come and be a good ole console style player number 2 has entered the game.

normally i use my big led tv as the screen and when someone wants to use it as a tv, i just click over to the second screen and i have the mouse ect. over there

 

i found things like 

http://www.miniframe.com/technology/softxpand.html

SoftXpand software enables

multiple users to share a single computer

simply by connecting additional sets of monitors, keyboards and mice.

2-4 users share 1 computer
home users, gamers and entertainment


the only requirement seems to be that you have set up separate user accts on my pc and then multibox the steam client

 

point is, im fairly certain that this is a really old idea,

there has to be some way to get this effect, with out coughing up 40 bucks to that particular  .com


best wishes,

Kurama  


  (everyone mispronounces the name,  cu ra mah.   like curry, the god ra, and stay outta mah shed)

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1.)The reason they make you pay for that software is because (I imagine) it is almost dead simple to setup.       The free way to do this would be through virtualization.

    Note: You'll need to find a way to work with the license keys. You may need multiple sound cards for             independent audio.

    Virtualbox: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.10/VirtualBox-4.3.10-93012-Win.exe

    Extension Pack: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.10/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.10-93012.vbox-extpack

2.) Use LTSP: http://www.ltsp.org/

     With this method you'll need a thin client for each computer.  You'll only need the bare minimum (CPU,          Mobo, PSU, Case, RAM, Keyboard, Mouse, & Monitor); you won't even need a HDD/SSD or GPU.