Is it possible to play the original Red Alert on LAN? I've looked up various ways, although I was never able to figure it out.
Playing Red Alert on LAN
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Is it possible to play the original Red Alert on LAN? I've looked up various ways, although I was never able to figure it out.
Best Answer
In order to play older games, like Red Alert, via LAN connections on newer operating systems you'll need to emulate IPX connections between the machines. There are a few ways to accomplish this.
For dos games you're in luck as DosBox comes with this support natively. Simply start the ipx server on one machine
ipxnet startserver [UDP port]and then connect to it on the rest of the machinesipxnet connect <IP> [UDP port]For windows based games you can use something like Kali which will give you a fairly robust interface, or something like ipxemu or ipxwrapper which will trick the games into thinking they are connected via IPX.