Allright, it worked perfectly! We had about 20h of undisturbed fun with this great old game. Thank you very much for your help!

Hi ghosthammer, it seems to run fine (at least for a short time). I restocked the fridge with everything unhealthy and will give it a try tomorrow all day long. I really hope this will work (and 20h of FA dont cause instant death 😉 ). Thanks for your help, I will let you know if it worked.

Would it be possible to somehow sync the Dosbox-clocks via the emulated IPX?

It would be the best to use IP of course but it seems very difficult due to the completely different designs. As I said, I dont know anything about such network programming - but using the IPX protocol in Windows XP may not take so much time and effort and would allow a lot of people to play such …

It is obviously obsolete but we still need it to play obsolete games 😀 . One can play Windows 95 games via an IPX network on XP after installing the IPX protocol. So it still remains in XP somehow and can be accessed...

Too bad, but you still did a great job to enhance the IPX gameplay up to a few hours. Why does the Dosbox need to emulate the IPX via TCP? Isnt it possible to somehow access a "real" IPX in Windows XP? I dont know alot about network programming, so maybe this is totally stupid...

Hi, I hope there has been some progress with the IPX problem up to now. For years now I wanted to play a large map with high asteroid density in multiplayer with a good friend. Now that we both recieved our diploma, there is time for such a game. The fridge is loaded with pizza and energy drinks and …