Hey community,
It seems that noone mentionned IPXwrapper. This software is the cleanest solution I've seen yet to make old IPX games working on win7.
It basically does IPX-over-UDP simply by putting it's DLL files in the same folder as your EXE; no patching needed. You may tune it to use exclusively the network interface of your choice (ie Hamachi or whatever interface you're using) by running ipxconfig.exe just once; so, no messing with interface metrics needed neither.
http://www.solemnwarning.net/ipxwrapper/
Of course, if you use a network interface behind a router, you gonna have to open some ports. IPXwrapper use 2 fixed UDP ports IIRC, control & data (rtfm:), which makes it really easy to configure, and play good old Diablo over (V)LAN right away.
Hope this helps, peace.
Z
It seems that noone mentionned IPXwrapper. This software is the cleanest solution I've seen yet to make old IPX games working on win7.
It basically does IPX-over-UDP simply by putting it's DLL files in the same folder as your EXE; no patching needed. You may tune it to use exclusively the network interface of your choice (ie Hamachi or whatever interface you're using) by running ipxconfig.exe just once; so, no messing with interface metrics needed neither.
http://www.solemnwarning.net/ipxwrapper/
Of course, if you use a network interface behind a router, you gonna have to open some ports. IPXwrapper use 2 fixed UDP ports IIRC, control & data (rtfm:), which makes it really easy to configure, and play good old Diablo over (V)LAN right away.
Hope this helps, peace.
Z