IPX under windows?

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by fiammy December 21, 1999 05:06 AM

2 comments, last by fiammy 24 years, 3 months ago

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December 01, 1999 04:50 AM

Use WinSock. I think gamedev has a tutorial on it.

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SiCrane

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December 19, 1999 09:45 PM

If you use Winsock for IPX programming, you have to use Winsock 2.0. Winsock 1.1 and earlier doesn't support IPX as a socket creation option. But once the IPX socket is created, you can pretty much treat it like any other Winsock socket.

fiammy

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December 21, 1999 05:06 AM

I am working on a game with Allegro, with versions for DOS, Windows and Linux. I would like to know if there is a way of programming IPX under windows without having to use DirectPlay (which makes the versions incompatible with each other)?