🚀 go-pugleaf

No idea where to post this but alt.games.redalert doesn't exist anymore 
and figuring this out was NOT easy by googling for info.

Last weekend a friend and mine just had to play the good old "Hills 
have no eyes" Aftermath scenario. Earlier on we had installed Windows 
ME just to be able to play the old C&C games but with the newer mobos 
that don't boot up ME this was not an option.

Getting IPX to work on XP with the oldest games is a real dog although 
we succeeded with some of the newer ones. I know there is a 3.03 patch 
out there that is supposed to fix things but we didn't get it to work 
(had the Red Alert CD but not the Aftermath CD).

So we finally resorted to finding a COM port emulator just hoping that 
approach might work. The post we got the idea from referred to some 
software we couldn't get to work and we then tried several in rapid 
succession. Until we stumbled on this :

HW Virtual Serial Port 2.5.0 
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Misc-Networking-Tools/HW-
Virtual-Serial-Port.shtml

Setup was a breeze and the only thing we had to realize was that you 
actually had to click on another tab to make the other computer a COM 
server. Other than that you pretty much just gave the ip address to 
make a COM2 virtual port, fired up red Alert with a multiplay/direct 
cable option and avot, Lobby wooooorrrks! Several hours and not a 
glitch.

Time to play the good old original too (talking C&C, not Dune :). And I 
haven't played Command HQ in decades, maybe that works too :D

Hopefully I can amke this come up high enough in Google to help other 
unfortunates too. 

Eskimo

Keywords: Red Alert Network Multiplay LAN IPX COM Windows


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