Re: [DPlay] Added keys for the various DPlay service providers

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi Lionel,
> Some games crash if we do not enumerate properly the various DPlay service
> providers. So install the registry keys to please them :-)
>
> Lionel
>
> Changelog:
>  - added keys to install all known DPlay service providers
> Will this work without the service provider dlls like dpwsockx.dll and 
> dpmodemx.dll?

Stefan

[DPlay] Added keys for the various DPlay service providers

[Lionel Ulmer]

On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:49:24PM +0000, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Will this work without the service provider dlls like dpwsockx.dll and 
> dpmodemx.dll?

No, but it makes 'Wild Metal Country' not crash at start-up :-)

After, if I continue to be motivated to hack on DPlay, I may take a shot at
implementing a built-in version of 'dpwsockx.dll' (I never touched any
Windows networking programming so it could be nice to change a bit).

         Lionel

-- 
		 Lionel Ulmer - http://www.bbrox.org/

[DPlay] Added keys for the various DPlay service providers

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi,
> No, but it makes 'Wild Metal Country' not crash at start-up :-)
> Fine. And it's easier to copy these dlls than the dlls + the registry 
> entries :-)
> After, if I continue to be motivated to hack on DPlay, I may take a shot at
> implementing a built-in version of 'dpwsockx.dll' (I never touched any
> Windows networking programming so it could be nice to change a bit).
> Have a lot of fun!

Stefan

[DPlay] Added keys for the various DPlay service providers

[Mike Hearn]

On Sat, 28 May 2005 17:04:59 +0200, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> After, if I continue to be motivated to hack on DPlay, I may take a shot at
> implementing a built-in version of 'dpwsockx.dll' (I never touched any
> Windows networking programming so it could be nice to change a bit).

Good luck! Be warned, the DirectPlay network protocol is undocumented
(well, maybe somebody reverse engineered it and put the specs up somewhere
but I'm not sure).

thanks -mike