My son was really excited when I told him about the IonCross Freelancer Server Operator program I had downloaded for him from Lancer's Reactor. This program was supposed to allow customizing the server startup for new characters to allow different starting locations, different starting ships, customized starting reputation with different factions, etc. (It also has lots of other server admin and anti-cheating stuff that sounds like it would be useful for internet servers, but not really applicable to him running his own server on our LAN.)

Anyway, it was a big letdown when we were doing the install and looked at the readme to discover that this program only works on Win XP, and not at all on Win 9x systems. Major bummer!

Does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative program that will allow the kind of customization that we were hoping to get from this one, but will run on Win 98SE? I think I saw some other server apps at Lancer's Reactor, but I'd prefer not to waste more time downloading stuff that won't run on our system, or won't do what we want it to do (which is to customize situations for starting characters).

Thanks for any help.

redgab