DOS Games Discussion

I have Doom 1 on a cd of 600 DOS games, it is the shareware version but it comes with the entire first episode and network support. I have 2 computers running Win98, a laptop running Win2k, and my main comp is running WinXP. When my friend and I played doom on the Win98 computers it worked fine on the lan, it found the node and connected and immeadietly launched us into the game. But if i try it on a Win 2000 comp, it gives this message and exits when i try to start a network game:


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DOOM NETWORK DEVICE DRIVER
v1.22
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Communicating with interrupt vector 0x60
Attempting to find all players for 2 player net play. Press ESC to exit.
Looking for a node.SendPacket: 0x4e


And this is what it said on WinXP:


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DOOM NETWORK DEVICE DRIVER
v1.22
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Communicating with interrupt vector 0x60
IPX not detected


2000 used to say the same thing that XP says but i tried something someone told me about installing "client service for netware" and that made it detect the IPX network, but it wont connect to anything and immediately exits after displaying that it sent a packet. XP dosent have the netware thing so it cant even get halfway... someone tell me a way to point Doom towards the IPX network, as it is obviously looking in the wrong place for it and concluding that the comp dosent have one.

This might be a problem concerning direct hardware access. If that multiplayer mode tries to use direct hardware access, Windows 2000/XP will refuse to allow it to run.

(sry i wasnt logged on before...)

well is there any way to allow the program direct hardware access?

Windows NT, 2000, and XP are high-security OSes (relatively that is) and thus I guess Microsoft thought it right to deny direct hardware access to all software to add a bit of protection from Trojan Horses, viruses, worms, hackers, very buggy software, etc.

So therefore, there's generally no way to allow those versions of Windows to allow direct hardware access since the protection is part of the OS itself.

You may want to try using the Windows ZDoom port instead, it seems to have much better/easier support for networking:

http://zdoom.org/