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Subject: Re: Autoplayer in a LAN

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 02:01:41 05/08/98

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On May 07, 1998 at 17:16:36, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>On May 07, 1998 at 08:21:46, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>>
>>This is a follow up of a posting in rgcc (auto232).
>>
>>The windows autoplayer code I wrote and which is already included in
>>Shredder2 works fine in a LAN with WinNT. You don't need a serial cable
>>any longer, although you can use it for the reason of compatibility with
>>other programs supporting auto232.
>>Unfortunaly Shredder2 is the only program supporting this right now,
>>but the source code is available for free so I hope that there will be
>>more programs soon. (Nimzo98 already uses my code but Chrilly has
>>decided to discard the network option).
>>
>>I also hope that those programs will be released with the autoplayer
>>included!
>>
>>To Bob Hyatt and anybody else who is interested:
>>It should be no problem and not much work (<< 1 day) to include
>>this autoplayer code in the WinNT version of Crafty. It makes the
>>autoplayer much easier to use than the noname.com DOS driver which
>>is included in the auto232 package.
>>Most (>99%) of all the timing problems will be gone.
>>
>>If anybody is interested we can discuss more implementation details.
>>
>>Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
>
>Stefan,
>this sounds great!
>Does it support Win95 as well?
>Peter

You only need at least one NT machine if you want to use the network
option.
The rest works fine with Win95.

Stefan



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