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If you are a fan of old games like me then, startcraft 1 , diablo I , theme hospital dungeon keeper along with blizzard , westwood and bullfrog or oher games of the 90's and the next decade tha use ipx/spx are a trouble getting to work.

well there is a way tested with windows 8 windows 7 and itll propably work on every other platform .Let me explain how it works.

We are going to need dosbox so go here http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1  and get it .

Install andstep 1 is getting ipx support for dosbox.

You can find the configuration file of dosbox in here

C:\Users\**username**\AppData\Local\DOSBoxthe file name is dosbox-0.74.conf

So open it and add just before the end and above the autoexec section

ipx=true

example[ipx]# ipx: Enable ipx over UDP/IP emulation.ipx=true

[autoexec].

Step 2 is getting a working installation of the game . eg Theme Hospital . I will expaing with the gog version.

Install it or move it to an easy location eg C:\games\themeremember to keep the 8 character length for each directory name

open dosboxtypemount c c:\games\theme

this make a virtual drive c:\ in dosbox with the contents of the folder of yourhard drive and the directory games\theme

now on step 3 ipx

The pc acting as server will need to start the ipx tunnel with the followin commandipxnet startserver 1200

1200 is the port number choose whatever you wantif you are going to play via internet choose something you can forward from your router (even use the same as another program you already have port forwarding ready)

One very important thing to know is that you have to let windows firewall or your own firewall permit the application the port use. So when windows prompts or when your firewall promts let it communicate.

You must run this command on both client and server once to activate the firewall opening the port for the application.

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Now the pc action as clientUse this syntax

ipxnet connect server.ip.here port.hereexampleipxnet connect 192.168.1.2 1200

you should get verification that the tunnel is ok

 Thats all!!

Get in the game

open the multiplayer and game on !!

If you run into problems check firstly firewall then port forwarding and make sure you use the same version of the game ;)

Drop a line if you made it work and on which game .

so far tested Theme hostpital , Dungeon keeper, Startcraft I