Easyman

A simple Windows GUI wrapper for p99-login-middlemand, making it easy for Project 1999 players to enable and disable the login middleman proxy without manual file editing.

First Launch Browse your EQ directory for eqhost.txt and click Enable Middleman

Enabled and Running Now minimize and launch P99 Everquest

Application Settings

Credits

Easyman is a GUI wrapper for middlemand, a login proxy for EverQuest that relays connections between your client and the EQEmulator login server.

• middlemand originally written by @Zaela -- p99-login-middlemand
• Windows port by @rm-you -- p99-login-middlemand

Download

Grab the latest Easyman-vX.X.X.zip from the Releases page. Extract the zip -- it contains both Easyman.exe and middleman.exe.

Usage

1. Extract the zip to any folder. Both Easyman.exe and middleman.exe must be in the same folder.
2. Run Easyman.exe.
3. Click Browse and locate your eqhost.txt file in your EverQuest installation directory. This is a one-time step -- Easyman remembers the path.
4. Click Enable Middleman to start the proxy.
5. Launch EverQuest and log in normally.
6. Keep Easyman open while you play. It manages the middleman proxy in the background. You can minimize it to the taskbar.
7. When you are done playing, click Disable Middleman or close Easyman -- it will offer to clean up automatically.

How it works

When you click Enable Middleman, Easyman:

• Updates your eqhost.txt to route login traffic through localhost:5998
• Starts the bundled middleman.exe proxy in the background
• Shows a green status indicator

When you click Disable Middleman, Easyman:

• Restores your eqhost.txt to point at login.eqemulator.net:5998
• Stops the middleman process
• Shows a red status indicator

If you close Easyman while middleman is still running, it will ask whether to disable it first or leave it running.

Easyman also detects if a middleman.exe process is already running when it starts, and offers to take it over so you never end up with duplicate processes.

Allowing Additional EMU Servers

By default, middleman filters the server list to only show Project 1999 servers (Blue, Green, Red). You can whitelist additional EQEmu servers so they are not filtered out.

Via the GUI: Open Settings and use the Allowed EMU Servers section to add, remove, or revert entries. Changes are saved to allowed_emu.txt alongside the executable.

Via the config file: Edit allowed_emu.txt in the same folder as Easyman.exe. Add one server name per line. Matching is case-insensitive and uses partial/substring matching, so Ryhoz would match a server named Ryhoz world. Lines starting with # or ; are treated as comments.

Example allowed_emu.txt:

# Allowed EMU server names (case-insensitive substring match)
# Servers whose name starts with "Project 1999" are always allowed.
Ryhoz world

If allowed_emu.txt is missing, only Project 1999 servers are shown (the original behavior). Middleman reads this file on startup, so restart it after making manual edits.

Windows SmartScreen

On first run, Windows may show a "Windows protected your PC" warning because the application is new and not yet widely recognized. This is normal for any newly released application.

To proceed:

1. Click More info
2. Click Run anyway

Building from source

Requires the .NET 8 SDK.

dotnet publish Easyman/Easyman.csproj -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained -p:PublishSingleFile=true -o ./publish

On Linux, add -p:EnableWindowsTargeting=true to cross-compile for Windows.

License

Open Source (GPLv3). See Zaela/p99-login-middlemand for upstream licensing.

Built with ❤️ by Repo/Gretchen <Europa>