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Feb 19, 2009 8:22 pm
Feb 19, 2009 8:22 pm
Subject: Re: help new player with basic info
Hello and a warm welcome ;D
Tell me about your XP PC specs, this screen bug sounds familiar, some newer gfx cards with new drivers don't support the old vesa anymore ( a very specific one that MAX runs on ) even without VDMSound, just plain xp.
You should try dosbox, it might help you alot with compatibility problems
To play Max LAN / ONLINE
There are many different ways to do so but there are very small chances you get it to run without crashes.
There is/was KAHN, that fowared the IPX packages from MAX to a server and then to the other players connected to the server aswell.
It worked pretty decent, but witn win95/98 only.
The usual problems are to find players first, a KAHN server and then still play the game after alot possible crashes. From my experience, it can drag all the fun down and no one is willing to play anymore.
Its still plays better over KAHN/online than over LAN, cause MAX's Multiplayer code is just too buggy.
I never tried BattleLan to play it over the net, but Hamachi could be very similar here. In both ways you probably have to install Novel's Network Client with the old IPX protocols, to even reach the multiplayer screen.
The really easiest way is to do it on yours win98 os, just block everything except the needed ports and you should be safe.
One thing I wanna add is that you can run MAX pretty smoothly over serial cable, with 2 players only, but nevertheless better than the other options. Since it run so nicely over the serial port, I tried to use some "Serial Port Redirector" to make it over the net
I never got finished, but that could be a small help.
good luck so far
sal
Hello and a warm welcome ;D
Tell me about your XP PC specs, this screen bug sounds familiar, some newer gfx cards with new drivers don't support the old vesa anymore ( a very specific one that MAX runs on ) even without VDMSound, just plain xp.
You should try dosbox, it might help you alot with compatibility problems
To play Max LAN / ONLINE
There are many different ways to do so but there are very small chances you get it to run without crashes.
There is/was KAHN, that fowared the IPX packages from MAX to a server and then to the other players connected to the server aswell.
It worked pretty decent, but witn win95/98 only.
The usual problems are to find players first, a KAHN server and then still play the game after alot possible crashes. From my experience, it can drag all the fun down and no one is willing to play anymore.
Its still plays better over KAHN/online than over LAN, cause MAX's Multiplayer code is just too buggy.
I never tried BattleLan to play it over the net, but Hamachi could be very similar here. In both ways you probably have to install Novel's Network Client with the old IPX protocols, to even reach the multiplayer screen.
The really easiest way is to do it on yours win98 os, just block everything except the needed ports and you should be safe.
One thing I wanna add is that you can run MAX pretty smoothly over serial cable, with 2 players only, but nevertheless better than the other options. Since it run so nicely over the serial port, I tried to use some "Serial Port Redirector" to make it over the net
I never got finished, but that could be a small help.
good luck so far
sal
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