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First post, by brian holl

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Hello,

I wanted to ask

1) I have two PCs at home and I would like to mime brother play one of the older games such as: Duke Nukem 3D, Redneck Rampage and so on etc...
We withdrawn on both computers: DosBox 0.74 and we want to play over LAN network card.
It will work through Dosbox Network Lan environment at home?

2) What program Hamachi?
It will be functional for playing old multiplayer games via DosBox?

I would like to play old games over LAN at home and on the Internet how to do it?

Reply 1 of 1, by ripa

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Yes it will all work. Also, you might not need Hamachi at all for LAN play over the internet due to how Dosbox works. See the IPX section of the dosbox manual.

Basically you decide which PC will be the server. On that PC, start Dosbox and use IPXNET STARTSERVER. On the other PC, start Dosbox and use IPXNET CONNECT to connect to the other PC to form a virtual IPX LAN. You can test the connection using IPXNET PING. IPX must be of course enabled in dosbox.conf for both PCs. Then just use the game's multiplayer option. You might need to adjust your firewall settings to let Dosbox through.

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