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Originally Posted by Saccade
Do you think it would be easy to make a quickstart menu option to run dosbox IPX - enter ip number - and launch this game in multiplayer mode..?
So it's really easy to get playing online with hamachi?
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It's possible, just edited my menu (added the multiplayer option) and connected two PC's/started Blood.
Here's what I did:
1. added these two entries to my menu.bat
:startserver
cls
ipx=true
ipxnet startserver
setup.exe
goto start
:connect
cls
ipx=true
echo Enter the IP address to connect to:
copy con ip.txt
copy /b ipxnet.txt+ip.txt ip.bat
call ip.bat
pause
setup.exe
goto start
2. added two .txt files in Blood directory, one more .bat file
-ip.txt only stores the ip address
-ipxnet.txt reads "ipxnet connect "
-ip.bat then executes "ipxnet connect <ip address>"
Maybe there are better (easier) ways to do this, this is only what I came up with. Like I said, I tested it, and only had to type the IP address and go through the setup.exe menus. Don't know if this works with Hamachi (never used). Also, when asked to type the IP address you can't see what you are typing (maybe there's some simple solution to this too).