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  • Re: Kirt Weiske

    From nkeck72@1:342/201 to All on Fri Apr 5 17:59:10 2019
    Speaking of IPX, I recently attempted to run a LAN game of doom using a few
    DOS PCs. When I run IPXSETUP.EXE on the host machine, it simply begins listening for a game. Do I need to know the IPX address of the hosting
    machine, or just the port? Is the game just supposed to find the host automatically?

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to nkeck72 on Sat Apr 6 09:13:00 2019
    nkeck72 wrote to All <=-

    Speaking of IPX, I recently attempted to run a LAN game of doom using a few DOS PCs. When I run IPXSETUP.EXE on the host machine, it simply
    begins listening for a game. Do I need to know the IPX address of the hosting machine, or just the port? Is the game just supposed to find
    the host automatically?

    Oh, dear - I haven't run an IPX game since 1993 or so! I thought as
    long as everyone was on the same IPX network number that it'd find the
    game via multicast.


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  • From Charles Stephenson@1:226/17 to nkeck72 on Sun Apr 7 00:45:29 2019
    Re: Re: Kirt Weiske
    By: nkeck72 to All on Fri Apr 05 2019 05:59 pm

    Speaking of IPX, I recently attempted to run a LAN game of doom using a few DOS PCs. When I run IPXSETUP.EXE on the host machine, it simply begins listening for a game. Do I need to know the IPX address of the hosting machine, or just the port? Is the game just supposed to find the host automatically?

    Let us know if you get it working! If you allow inbound connections I'm gonna find and fire up my copy too! :)
    Regards,
    KrUpTiOn
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