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Re: Diablo via Win95 dialup ipx, is it possible ?

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From: ma... Arnie
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:00
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On Sat, 25 Jan 97 14:36:22 GMT, *jhb...@servtech.com (James Bass)
wrote:

>Is it possible to play Diablo through Win95's Dial-Up server via IPX ?
>The reason I ask is I want to run a 2 player game on a ipx based lan.
>And I would have the ability to allow someone to dial at the same time and 
>join thus making a 3 player game. Any ideas ?

I have tried this and it doesn't seem to work. There is no reason they
couldn't have included this. Quake never really said how to do this,
but it works. I start a modem Quake game. That person dials in. My
other two computers can then join via a LAN game, works great.


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Arnie Mahns                           Gresham, Oregon U.S.A
ma...@qcsn.com
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From: ma...@qcsn.com (Arnie)
Subject: Re: Diablo via Win95 dialup ipx, is it possible ?
Date: 1997/01/27
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