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- From: jonm@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jon E. Mittelhauser)
- Subject: Re: Novell-Network Games: How to program?
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- Organization: Nat'l Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:40:07 GMT
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- stoned@wimsey.bc.ca (Darren Stone) writes:
- >sn (sn@plato.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
- >: We have a new Novell (3.11) Network at our university, and
- >: I'd like to program some multi-user games taking advantage
- >: of the network. Where can I get information about how to
- >: do the communication-routines? Do I have to buy a book about
- >: this or are there some text files available via FTP?
- >
- >I had the same problem. I wanted to do multi-user stuff over Novell,
- >without even having to worry if the server itself was up or if users
- >were logged into it. If you want to do this, you want to learn IPX/SPX
- >programming. This is peer-to-peer communication. It's not too bad
- >(there's about a dozen or less routines you need to use).
- >
- >Two good books on this are:
- >
- >Programmer's Guide to Netware, McGraw Hill
- >Network Programming in C, Que
- >
-
- I recently decided to add IPX/SPX support for our game Netspace (which
- currently only uses TCP/IP). By far the best book which I was able to find
- is "C Programmer's Guide to Netbios, IPX, and SPX" by David Schwaderer and
- published by SAMS Publishing (c) 1992. Library of Congress Catalog Card
- Number: 92-61286. ISBN:0-672-30050-8. That should give you enough
- information to order it if you cannot find it in a store. :^)
- The book comes with a source disk for MSC 7.0 and/or Borland 3.1 and
- includes "Complete Netbios 2.h,ipx.h, and spx.h applications. Real-time
- LAN conferencing application, intermediate datagram application, and C file
- transfer application". I haven't had the time to port Netspace to SPX yet,
- but it doesn't look like it will be too bad....
-
- -Jon Mittelhauser (jonm@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
- Dragon Palace Software
- 509 W. Park Ave
- Champaign, IL 61820
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