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- PLAYING WORMS:REINFORCEMENTS OVER A LOCAL AREA NETWORK
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- This document is laid out as follows;
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- A) Introduction
- B) Configuring your network card using a Novell Driver
- C) Configuring your network card using a Packet Driver
- D) Playing WORMS:REINFORCEMENTS using WINDOWS drivers
- E) Playing WORMS:REINFORCEMENTS over the Modem or Null Modem Connection
- F) Playing the game
- G) Trouble Shooting, Getting hold of appropriate driver-software
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- A) Introduction
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-
- Worms:Reinforcements offers network play, with the addition of being able
- to message any or all of the players - adding to the espionage factor! Worms
- is still turn based and you get to watch your opponents every move!
-
- Each game of Worms:Reinforcements can be played by up to four players on a
- Local Area Network network. The network "language" Worms:Reinforcements
- speaks is called IPX. If you are familiar with playing games over a network,
- chances are that you already know how to make your network card "talk" IPX.
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- More people can join the network "group" (actually up to 16) but only 2 may
- play at once, the rest may "spectate".
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- B) General Conditions for Network Play
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- You will need a CD of the game in each machine you`ll be using.
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- Any network card can be used as long as:
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- i) The network card can be used on a Novell NetWare network.
- Most network cards come with a driver for Novell networks. Check your
- cards documentation for more information. These differ from card to
- card and are copyright, we cannot supply you with drivers.
-
- -or-
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- ii) You can find a Packet Driver for it. Packet drivers for most
- cards are available from Internet Sites and Shareware resource sites,
- we have details of such sites on our World Wide Web pages.
- (http:\www.team17.com) - Locate the Worms:Reinforcements/Utilities
-
-
- -or-
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- iii) You can find a driver for Windows or Windows for Workgroups/Windows 95
- for it. Check your cards documentation for more information.
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-
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- C) Playing Worms:Reinforcements using a Novell driver
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- Three different drivers are needed to enable Worms:Reinforcements to be
- played using a Novell driver. Some cards come with all these drivers.
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- The three drivers are: LSL.COM, IPXODI.COM and a "MLID driver"
- that matches your card. The filename for this depends on what card you
- have. Your cards documentation or network administrator should be able
- to give you the filename.
-
- Example:
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- If you have a NE2000 compatible card, the MLID driver is called NE2000.COM
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- The three drivers must be loaded in the following sequence:
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- 1) LSL.COM Type LSL.COM
- 2) NE2000.COM Type NE2000.COM
- 3) IPXODI.COM Type IPXODI.COM
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- You are now ready to start playing Worms:Reinforcements over the network.
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- D) Playing Worms:Reinforcements using a Packet Driver
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- Two different drivers are needed to play Worms:Reinforcements using a
- Packet Driver. The name of the Packet Driver depends on which card you
- have. In addition, you need an IPX driver. The most commonly used is called
- PDIPX.COM which is available from good shareware resources and on the Inter
- net.
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- The Packet Driver usually needs additional options to be specified. If you
- are not sure which options to use, check the documentation for your
- Packet Driver. These options specify which "interrupt vector" the
- Packet Driver should hook on to, etc. If you are unable to find a Packet
- Driver for your card, a very popular set of Packet Drivers, called Crynwr,
- is available from good shareware/freeware suppliers - our website can offer
- directions so that you can pick these up easily enough.
-
- Example:
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- If you have a 3Com Etherlink III ISA network card, the packet driver is
- called 3C509.COM
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- The drivers must be loaded in the following sequence:
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- 1) 3C509.COM Type 3C509 0x65
- 2) PDIPX.COM Type PDIPX
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- You are now ready to start playing Worms:Reinforcements
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- E) Playing Worms:Reinforcements using Windows
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- Microsoft Windows for Workgroups and Windows 95 come with drivers for most
- cards. If the network drivers are not already installed, follow the
- documentation on how to add a network card to Windows. Make sure that the
- driver for IPX is installed:
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- Windows for Workgroups:
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- Open the Control Panel and click on the Network icon. Click on the Drivers
- button and a list should appear. Look for "IPX/SPX-compatible protocol".
- We recommend that users do NOT run WORMS:REINFORCEMENTS under Windows 3.0 or
- 3.1 or 3.11, but under DOS or WIN'95. If possible, set up your network card
- through DOS using IPX.
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- Windows 95:
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- Choose Start, Settings and Control Panel. Click on the Network icon and
- a list should appear. Look for "IPX/SPX-compatible protocol". If it's not in
- the list, click on the Add button, and choose Protocol. Select Microsoft
- from the list to the left, and then "IPX/SPX-compatible protocol" from the
- list on the right. After the machine has restarted, you are ready to play
- Worms:Reinforcements.
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- F) Starting Worms:Reinforcements for network play
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- After you have started your IPX, Worms:Reinforcements can in most cases
- be started without any additional options.
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- In some cases you might have to tweak the settings to match your environment.
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- You can specify options by using the SET command in DOS before starting
- Worms:Reinforcements. The options you can specify are:
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- -W Time limit for waiting for other players to join the network.
- -S Socket number. In some cases, you can not use the default socket 7777
- on your network. You should check with your network administrator before
- choosing another socket.
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- Set NETINFO=1 (Turns on network)
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- G) PLAYING WORMS:REINFORCEMENTS VIA MODEM
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- Playing games like Worms over the modem is not an easy task due to
- the technicalities of actualling getting two remote machines to talk to
- each other reliably. We have made the Modem configuration as configurable
- as possible to ensure that users can modify the set-ups for their own
- modems. Worms by Modem does require at least some technical knowledge of
- your Modem, or at least your modem's manual to hand!
-
- A modem is connected to your machine via a so called serial port. First
- of all you need to find the correct settings for the serial port the modem
- is hooked up to. Check the documentation for your machine. If you are
- unable to find the settings, at least make sure the modem is hooked on to
- serial port 1 or 2 (COM1 or COM2).
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- Settings for serial ports cosist of an address and an IRQ number.
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- The standard settings for COM1 is address 3F8, IRQ 4
- The standard settings for COM2 is address 2F8, IRQ 3
- The most common settings for COM3 is address 3E8, IRQ 4
- The most common settings for COM4 is address 2E8, IRQ 3
-
- The next step is to find the correct speed for your modem. This depends on
- your modem, and in some cases your serial port. Check your modem documentation
- for a suitable speed.
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- SET NETINFO=-CWORMS.CFG -W120 -S1212 -T10 -P0 -M_P2F8 -M_I3 -M_B9600 -M_T14
-
- -M_P Com port in hex
- -M_I Com ports IRQ level
- -M_B Baud rate
- -M_T Trigger level (Fast FIFO UARTs only ( exclude this if uart not present))
- -M_D Send command string to modem (using Hayes command set)
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- Note specifying any -M option makes game use COM port otherwise IPX is used.
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- The calling user should type MODEOUT before running Worms, the recieving user
- should type MODEIN prior to running Worms. When the modems have connected,
- press a key to commence the game. Play as per the network instructions.
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- A connection of 9600 is acceptable. Users with performance machines, Fast
- Uart chips and quality modems, may try for a higher speed connection.
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- You will have to edit the MODEOUT and MODEIN batch files (found on the CD)
- so that they match your modems operation.
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- To play locally over a null modem cable, type SERIAL before running Worms.
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- If you have any questions regarding WORMS over MODEM, then please EMAIL us
- at 'support@team17.com' A support area on our web-site will be set up
- and we hope to supply information from your feedback. We also ask that users
- who are enjoying the game over modem to let us know their configurations and
- what is in their batch files, so that we can make other less proficient users
- aware of the required configuration.
-
- Unfortunately Team17 cannot guarantee successful Modem-Modem connections
- when using WORMS over MODEM.
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- G) PLAYING WORMS:REINFORCEMENTS
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- Play is as per usual, with one extra feature... MESSAGING!
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- On your turn, press T to TALK.
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- You`ll be given a selection of players to talk to, or press A for ALL.
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- Type your message and hit return. If time runs out, your message is aborted.
- If you send a message to a single player in a multi-player games, only that
- player will see the message and the sender name. Other players will see
- "WORMS ARE TALKING"... Get ready for Paranoia!
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- Note: On the menu, Each player must select their own team in the roster as
- this dictates which terminal will control each team.
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- TROUBLESHOOTING
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- Please read the following thoroughly;
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- (1) TROUBLE.TXT
- (2) NETINFO.TXT
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- Your supplied driver software notes.
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- If you have problems, please EMAIL us at SUPPORT@TEAM17.COM
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- GETTING APPROPRIATE DRIVER SOFTWARE
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- In case of difficulty, please pay our website a visit at the following
- URL... You will find that we offer shortcuts to most IPX software solutions.
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- http:\\www.team17.com
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