Games over a network




How do I make network games work without running Win95?

Network Setup installs protected mode drivers for your card as well as NDIS 2.0 real mode components specifically for MS-DOS mode. You will need to install a Win95 net card driver and IPX/SPX Protocol for this to work.
In the special AUTOEXEC.BAT you make for MS-DOS mode games (as on a boot disk), include:
NET START NWLINK
This will load a real mode protocol manager, net card driver, and Microsoft's IPX compatible protocol. You can go a step further and type NET START NWREDIR to load a NETX compatible client for NetWare, if you need to get to your games stored on the NetWare server, and you installed Microsoft's Client for NetWare.

Category: Digital Helpline
Issue: Feb 1997
Pages: 180

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