Share via

Head to head DOOM under Virtual PC

  • Article

You may have been wondering why you would want to setup IPX under Virtual PC.  The simple answer is so that you can play old school DOS network games against your friends.  The not so obvious answer is so that you can play a game of DOOM against yourself :-)

Here is a screen shot of me playing a three player game of DOOM - with one of my players shooting the other, while the third watches:

doom

In order to set this up - I used the IPX instructions from yesterdays post.  I then downloaded the shareware version of DOOM from here: ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/doom/doom19s.zip , unpacked and installed this into each virtual machine, and then ran 'IPXSETUP -nodes 3' on each virtual machine.

And away you go...

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2004
    Now thats just showing off!!!!
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2004
    Yup :-)
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2004
    Hehe, that's awesome mate!

  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2004
    you should try the 3 monitor setup with the left & right view ( don´t know if thats possible with 1.9 )
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2004
    How do you play against yourself when only one VPC can have the focus?
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2004
    Not very good example of feature ;-)
    Because <a href="http://www.doomsdayhq.com/">Doomsday</a> is much more preferred for this task.
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2004
    Very cool.

    Some of these other guys just aren't geeky enough to appreciate how cool that really is. You've got the equivalent of three separate PC's all thinking that they are "networked" while never leaving the host system. And it's not like you are running a modern video game. Those old games were sometimes really finicky about the networking setup. The fact that it works at all is amazing!

    Not very useful but very cool anyway!
  • Anonymous
    November 28, 2004
    Not to be a troll but you can accomplish the same feat under http://dosbox.sourceforge.net without having to worry about IPX drivers, autoexec.batconfig.sys configuration, DOS installation + better sound and networking performance.

    Only Con is your speed will be quite a bit slower in Dosbox especially if you have a low-end PC.
  • Anonymous
    December 12, 2004
    The comment has been removed
  • Anonymous
    August 29, 2012
    works great on same computer,but can't get it to work on different pc's