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[DakaSha]

I posted this in the deadly games thread but i thought this might be a better place to get help
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hey i need some help.
and bad cause im impulsive as a ...i dont know give me an example

anyways... i found a friend who wants to play this game in network multiplay but we have a problem:

if i want to lead or join a game everythings fine... if i lead i get the game setup window and if i join well... nothing happens because nobody is leading a game but it trys.

now:
if my friend trys to lead or join it says: setting up network for a while then it says network problems - try again (or something like that)

his network is fine.. we play magic the gathering and master of orion 2 ALOT... without problems..(well except with MOO2 but you all know why )

we both use XP

the only thing that was different on his system so far is that when i wanted to start the game up the first time on his (laptop) computer it said something about needing the AUTOEXEC.NT file... i copied that into his system32 folder and it worked...
when i restarted his computer it disapeared... so i put it in again and marked it as read only... so it stayed next time...

i read the AUTOEXEC.NT file and it says something about network bla bla... thats why i thought it might have something to do with it.

ok... i know i have problems getting my point across so if any whiz kid computer freak hacker guy wants to help me but needs more info just ask... thanks in advance.

**EDIT**

i installed DosBox on my friends computer and he can now lead or join games
but that doesnt help because i cant use dosbox (im running a P2 400... i know...pathetic)

thought id just tell ya.. its pretty obvios that it has something to do with dos and all

[DakaSha]

anybody?

[Flop]

Hmm, this thread is a bit old, so sorry to everybody for digging it up. But I was thinking; seeing as how you got VDMSound to work, did you try that? It has network support, although I've never actually tried using it.

[DakaSha]

didnt think about that.... ill try it when he comes over again.

I think i could get it running with TCP-COM but i can only get a 30 day trial version of that (for those who would like to try it out...you can play DG over an internet connection with that program).

anybody know about a freeware TCP-COM like program?