Reply 20 of 32, by RJDog
wrote:I never played through network card at Dos, had these games whole IPX stack everytime inbuild or you have to have already something (network driver, Netware) installed?
Well, you would load your specific NIC's ODI driver, and the IPX stack driver (2-3 TSRs total), which is the basis of the Novell NetWare stack (basically everything required for NetWare except for the actual NetWare login/drive mapping client itself). At that point, you could launch your IPX-using game (Doom, Rise of the Triad, Warcraft, etc.) and have LAN party fun.
Short answer, no, the games don't have the full stack built in (unlike mTCP), and require the IPX stack... which uses about 10-20% of the memory required for Microsoft's stack.