next version you can enter ipnummers without dots.

Next version? Will there be a BARIS II??

No - Qbix is refering to the next release of DOSBox - v. 0.64.

uhm that post is allready very old
dailing by ips is allready possible. (without dots) (at least i think it is.)

I don't think it can be done with BARIS...

As I understand it, the IP address thing works with null-modem multiplayer, but BARIS doesn't offer that option, only modem. Also I can't get BARIS to recognize the modem while running in DOSBox. Am I missing something maybe?

Have you enabled the modem in dosbox.conf?

Yes, basically. I'm using D-Fend 2 as a GUI for DOSBox, and I had D-Fend enable the modem. When that didn't work I think I also manually modified the .conf file--still no go.

I had the same problem in both Win98 and Win2000, both with external USR 56k faxmodems. And yes, both were on at the time. 😉

If there is phone-number-used-as-ip-address functionality in DOSBox, then my guess would be that it isn't for the null-modem, because null-modem gaming (in my experience) didn't involve any phone number. It was a direct connection between two computers with no switching. This would mean that it would be for the modem. (sorry if I'm wrong -- just guessing)

If may be worth checking the DOSBox wiki for this stuff. Strangely, I'm having trouble finding this support in the latest source code too... (can't think of good enough search strings I guess)

Yeah, that makes sense. I may have misread that part of the readme.

In any case, BARIS yelled at me when I tried to use modem multiplayer--either hosting or joining.

Funny--I just tried it on a Win98 system that runs BARIS natively (ie, no DOSBox). I pointed it to the correct Com port, and it still gave me the error! Maybe this is a bug in BARIS, not a problem on DOSBox's end.

Try Dosbox CVS

Uhhh....I'm not sure I follow you. I'm running the latest version of DOSBox (v. .63). And I have the problem even when I'm not running DOSBox at all. 😕

Click on "CVS Build" in my signature and use Ykhwon's build. v0.63 is the latest OFFICIAL version and was compiled back in late 2004. The one in my signature was compiled this month and has TONS of fixes since 2004.

Yes, but it still doesn't work even when I'm not running the game in DOSBox, so I'm not sure a different DOSBox version would help.

huh? It doesn't work when outside of DosBox so you assume the latest ver of DosBox won't work?

Let me try and stop the confusion: our friend Peyre just tries to say that if it doesn't even work without DOSBox, then there's no way it would with with DOSBox.

Then again, Peyre's screenshot didn't tell us which port "does not exist".

But more importantly, Peyre is the only one here that talks about an actual modem. The rest of the posters talk about DOSBox's infamous fake modem which phone number is actually an IP address (i.e. it turns old games' modem support into TCP/IP [read: Internet] support).

...assuming DOSBox v0.63 does work with dotless IP addresses, as that is what started this whole discussion in the first place!

So Peyre, if it's a fake modem you want, just try running the game through DOSBox and enter your friend's IP address instead of his phone number. Of course, this is assuming he runs the game through DOSBox too and both of your firewalls accept outcoming/incoming connections (the latter at least for the host) from the port that is mentioned in your two DOSBox's configs!

However, if it's a real modem you're after, that's a whole other setting in DOSBox's config. But nothing would work until your modem works successfully in Windows natively! Start by entering its properties and check for its port!

Hope I cleared up the mess...

LWC, that's correct--even when I run the game natively in Windows (on a computer that doesn't even have DOSBox installed), I still get the error.

I get the error regardless which Com port (1-4) I select in the game, regardless which I select in DOSBox/D-Fend2, and apparently regardless which physical Com port the modem is on (Com1 on my machines with DOSBox, Com2 on the non-DOSBox computer).

The modems work on all three computers; all three systems are able to dial up to the Internet when our high-speed Internet connection is temporarily down (yep, you guessed it, I have DSL). 😉

The thing is, what I'm actually trying to do is the IP address thing, but I get this error before I'm given a chance to enter a phone number. (I was working with the physical modem & Com port just so I could get to a window that would let me enter the number.)

Is there a place in DOSBox itself where I'm supposed to enter the IP address? Am I missing something? Or am I doomed to failure (drum roll!) with BARIS since it chokes before allowing me to enter the IP?

Hmmmm, interesting. You say you have a 98 machine. Can you try it from real MS-DOS instead of Windows 9x command prompt?

If it then works under MS-DOS (not 9x command prompt!) then that would be very interesting. I only have a demo version of the game...heh....it actually is a DEMO all it does it show what the game will be like sort of like a movie trailer.

Port is detected in CVS 😜 but the phone number (strictly US formatted) is 1 digit too small.