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Hyperlobby

Hyperlobby
Original author(s) Jiri Fojtasek
Initial release 2000
Stable release
4.2.12 (Monday, February 14, 2011)
Platform Microsoft Windows

HyperLobby is primarily designed to support online Flight Simulation and some other online games.

HyperLobby has a connection into the Internet by TCP port 1698, and for latency calculation between clients it uses an ICMP echo reply protocol which allows a display of latency between the client and a server. It is free program that is supported by donations.

It allows for a list of servers, and security as it has a user name login with password, which also appears ingame. The format of HyperLobby is with a list of servers, players, with abilities to add friends to a contact list and save servers into a favourite list. A chat function is also facilitated for and new users can ask members in the chat for assistance.

The most popular use for the game is IL-2 Sturmovik (video game).

HyperLobby was developed first in 2000 and requires Windows 2000 or later and it supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit mode)

(note that this list was taken from the program)


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