The other day I joined a LAN party (through a VPN) from another country and since we wanted to play some old school games, we needed a proper way of playing DOSBox games, we were looking for a proper IPX/SPX to TCP/IP solution for this. I believe the built-in solution for this in DOSBox is some kind of emulation that's far from optimal, so it will drop the network performance down quite a bit.
Then a friend told me about a modified version of DOSBox with NE2000 support (a network controller, supported back in the DOS days), which appears to be a much more efficient solution to this problem. We ended up playing Quake (the original, not QuakeWorld, of course) and it ran perfectly. We used a VPN set-up with OpenVPN and, once connected, the games pretty much worked perfectly in DOSBox. I didn't end up trying Blood, but since the game runs perfectly for me in DOSBox, I am presuming this to also work for Blood.
Here's the DOSBox release that I'm talking about: http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/
So I was DOSBoxing the other day...
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Re: So I was DOSBoxing the other day...
Nice post! ^_^