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Re: Network games w/out netsoftware?

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From: da... Dave Beynon
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:00
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Glenn Earl Gaerlan (glen...@cnct.com) wrote:
: Someone on the net was successful in playing network playable games like 
: Doom2, C&C, Warcraft 2, etc. with just network cards and cable without 
: having to buy network software (Novell, LANtastic, etc.)

: ctual netware shell or whatever is unnececary.  all you need is an ipx
driver for your system.  This usually consists of lsl.com, ipxodi.com and
some card specific device driver.  All of these are available quite easily
from various ftp sites (although i forget which ones)
: I'm running windows 95, by the way, and there are built-in network 
oh dear :)
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From: da...@a44.mcc.ac.uk (Dave Beynon)
Subject: Re: Network games w/out netsoftware?
Date: 1996/02/13
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