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I have tested this and with the IPX wrappers I was only able to get 2 players going at a time. On attempting to get a 3rd player into the IPX LAN the game would crash. The only way I was able to get it working was to actually build 4 winxp virtual machines with the freein https://www.virtualbox.org/VirtualBox and and install the actual IPX protocol on each. Virtual box

Virtualbox is also great because even though the resolution of the game is only 640 X 480 virtual boxvirtualbox allows you to stretch the 640 x 480 resolution to whatever your native screen resresolution is.

I have tested this and with the IPX wrappers I was only able to get 2 players going at a time. On attempting to get a 3rd player into the IPX LAN the game would crash. The only way I was able to get it working was to actually build 4 winxp virtual machines with the free https://www.virtualbox.org/ and install the actual IPX protocol on each. Virtual box is also great because even though the resolution of the game is only 640 X 480 virtual box allows you to stretch the 640 x 480 resolution to whatever your native screen res is.

I have tested this and with the IPX wrappers I was only able to get 2 players going at a time. On attempting to get a 3rd player into the IPX LAN the game would crash. The only way I was able to get it working was to actually build 4 winxp virtual machines in VirtualBox and install the actual IPX protocol on each.

Virtualbox is also great because even though the resolution of the game is only 640 X 480 virtualbox allows you to stretch the 640 x 480 resolution to whatever your native screen resolution is.

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I have tested this and with the IPX wrappers I was only able to get 2 players going at a time. On attempting to get a 3rd player into the IPX LAN the game would crash. The only way I was able to get it working was to actually build 4 winxp virtual machines with the free https://www.virtualbox.org/ and install the actual IPX protocol on each. Virtual box is also great because even though the resolution of the game is only 640 X 480 virtual box allows you to stretch the 640 x 480 resolution to whatever your native screen res is.