DOS Games Discussion

Larry Laffer · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:33 am Post subject: The Hamachi gaming Network

Hamachi is a small program that "gives you LAN over the Internet" thus allowing gamers to play old games over the Internet even if they

Have a game that does not support internet multyplayer other than modem calls but does support LAN multyplayer (So just this does not include Serial)
Have a game that for *ahem*obvious reasons*ahem* does not allow Internet play

Using Hamachi is very easy. You just need to download the client, install it and you're 3 clicks away of a multyplayer head-to-head/deatmatch/co-op or whichever suits you best Sarcastic

A list of games that can be played over Hamachi can be found here but I will add some games other than those(since this is about old games)

However, Hamachi has a setback... A network can host 273 users, however they are counted as

16 Free members
256 Premium members
1 Host

When you install Hamachi you have the option to test the Premium account for 30 days. This means that after one month you'll be back to a free user.

However, if I see that this thing catches on... I(or other DGF members)will set up more networks so that people could join and play despite the free account status.

Anybody that wants to join the brand new network... PM me for the network name and password.

Gamer_V · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:45 am Post subject:

3) With a friend we wanted to play a very old game over the Internet, the game is Dungeon Keeper 1. When I go in multiplayer, I have tree choices: Serial Cable, Modem and IPX. I guess that to play that game using the Hamachi Network I created I need to choose IPX. Well when I choose this, the game says that "the initialization of IPX is impossible" Sad. Why? How can I fix it?

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So this is for games that need an IPX Network:
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You need to add IPX protocol to Hamachi connection. Go to Network
Connection folder, right-click on Hamachi, select Properties, select
Install, select Protocol, select Microsoft, select NWLink..., click OK

Then restart Hamachi and try your game setup again. Whether it will
work right away I don't know, every game's different. If it doesn't
you will need to ask here again for exact advice (or try figuring this
out yourself Smile).

Edit: This example assumes you've got the dungeon keeper ipx patch from bullfrog installed, but IPX is needed for a lot of games, so the small guide should be sufficient.

Mr. Worm · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject:

What are some of the games that you want to use Hamachi on?

I took the liberty of making the UG. Larry, I decided to make you group owner, so you have full power of accepting people to the group. It should be private, so only members of the DGF Hamachi Guild (if you want me to change the name on anything, just tell me >_>), as I've called it, will be able to see the board.

franpa · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject:

PLEASE NOTE, hamachi indeed allows you to play games using there network over the internet... HOWEVER only TCP/IP protocol will work... start hamachi, start game, enjoy like a crazy bum fart on fire.

Larry Laffer · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:07 am Post subject:

abyss · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:40 am Post subject:

That is sweet Is this program virus free. Is it legal and will the program cost me money to use it.

Larry Laffer · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:52 am Post subject:

It's virus-free, as legal as it gets(otherwise I wouldn't of posted about it here) and it depends. Although there is a Premium account(paid) there is always a free account which you can use for as long as you wish. The good thing is that you can "test" the premium account for one month, free of charge.

So yes, go ahead and try it Congratulatory

franpa · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 3:11 am Post subject:

tcp/ip is the internet protocol... UDP uses tcp/ip... and yea ok some games will work with ipx i guess... depends souly on how the games coded.

Mr.Guimo · Expert Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Posts: 150 Location: North

HAMACHI

THE ONE AND ONLY WHEN YOU WANN'A PLAY THE GREATEST GAME EVER:

DotA DotA DotA DotA DotA DotA DotA DotA DotA DotA DotA DotA DotA Malevolent

franpa · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:50 am Post subject:

im after a fellow aussie doom player to play against Tbbbbbth!

anyone up for co-op or death match? youl need a registered copy of doom, doom 2, doom tnt, doom plutonia to play me... and you will need doom legacy 1.42 windows.

the reason for an aussie person is because people too far away lag like crap... and the reason for doom legacy over doom95 is because doom95 lags worse then doom legacy... so anyone out there?

Larry Laffer · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:37 am Post subject:

Franpa is right! Doom in general has an awful distance lag! I played with a romanian buddy of mine the day before yesterday and it worked just fine... then I tried joining an internet server... well I'm not gonna try that again, that's for sure!

johngUK · Member Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 22 Location: upstairs

I don't get it......how do you find the servers??

Gamer_V · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:58 pm Post subject:

Larry Laffer · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject:

Gamer_V is right, using Hamachi is just as playing a game over a Local Area Network, despite the fact that you're using the internet!

johngUK · Member Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 22 Location: upstairs