Thanks Moe I appreciate your reply,
However, I think you misunderstood my post. I'm not looking to turn a single player game into a two player game?
But rather to allow a 2 player DOS game (with no network capabilities) to play over the net. Thus, allowing 2 players in different locals to play the same game at the same time together.
Which is exactly what they have done with other emulators (NES, SNES, Genesis, etc...). The original game systems as I recall had no capablilites for network play...that came later with Dreamcast, X-box, etc. Many of the early games we use with the DOSBOX have no network play.
You wrote: "And magically turning a single-player-only game into a multiplayer-game is likewise impossible."
No one is looking to do that?
If you take a closer look at what they have done with Kaillera and MAME32 for example you will see that indeed 2 Players can connect to the server from different locations and play an arcade game from the 80s.....these games never had support for network play, obviously. The mame32 emulator was re-designed to support Kaillera and thus allow 2 players via the net to get together and play a game like Mario Bros. at the same time against each other.
Most of the servers for Kaillera see players who like the old arcade fighting games having one on one tournements....like streetfighter, king of fighters, and Marvel vs. Capcom. However, you will see other guys playing older MAME32 games as well.
Here is the brief description from the Kaillera mainpage:
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Kaillera enables emulators to play on the Internet.
It consists of a client and a server. The client is usually embedded into your favorite emulator and the server is a stand-alone application that needs to be run on a machine directly wired to the Internet
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Obviously, DOSBOX is simply another emulator much like MAME32 or STELLA. If the other emulators can be programmed to allow for internet connections and 2 player games....even though the original console or arcade game never allowed for it why is it so far fetched to think about DOSBOX possibly also having Kaillera embedded.
Best,
Wood Tick.