DPlay vs. Winsock

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by Great Milenko March 25, 2000 12:27 AM

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March 25, 2000 12:27 AM

I''m writing a multi-platform game engine, dplay dosen''t sound like a very good idea for that but much easier to implement under window, but how hard would it be to emulate dplay on the other end(a linux,dos,mac,whatever) or would it be better to use winsock? Great Milenko

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March 25, 2000 12:31 AM

If by emulate, you mean write wrapper code in other platforms so that it can communicate with DPlay programs, then the answer is: very difficult.

If you''re serious about making it multi-platform then you need to use an API that interfaces at the OSI transport layer, such as Winsock.