Illegal command: IPXNET

[Dragu]

@jimmc
@voljega
The command set just dont exist in our recalbox dosbox installation. It seems to me that we have included version 0.65 ? Should it not be time to include 0.74, what is rather old anyway ?

[jimmc]

@dragu @voljega I think that is an excellent idea! Does this post serve as the request, or would I need to request it in some other way?

[lmerckx]

The IPX support of DosBox is optional.

I think that the problem is that DosBox doesn't include SDL2_net at the compilation.

[voljega]

@dragu I thought it was 0.74 in Recalbox already ? the original dosbox.conf you found in the file refer to mapper file containing 0.74 in its name

[lmerckx]

Yes, it is 0.74 (and even more ... because also contains "unstable" features)

[abunille]

This post is deleted!

[voljega]

@lmerckx so ideally would it be possible to add IPX support through SDL2_net like you said ?

[lmerckx]

I will try ... next week.

[jimmc]

@lmerckx Hi there, just thought I would see if you had success with it?

[lmerckx]

@jimmc Yes, indeed. I successfully played Doom in network (Recalbox vs my PC).

This modification should be available in the next version of Recalbox, I suppose.

You can find more information in the dedicated issue: https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox/issues/311

[jimmc]

@lmerckx Great news! Thank you very much! I look forward to configuring several games to use this feature. Thank you again!

[jimmc]

@lmerckx I don't know if this would be helpful in the forum or not. And if so, maybe it should be a separate posting. But during my testing on a PC, I created this batch file which allows everyone joining a game to select which one will be the server, and then multiple clients can connect to that server as clients. I used a DOS utility called ask.com to get the Y/N answer, and then a DOS utility called answer.com to ask for an IP address.

If you are going to change the port used to something other default, can you let me know? That way, I should be able to mix and match players from recalbox, windows dosbox, linux dosbox, etc.

Thanks again for the help!

@echo off

cd\doom
ask "Start network game? Y/N"
if errorlevel 1 goto solo

ask "Start as server? Y/N"
if errorlevel 1 goto client

:server
ipxnet startserver
setup
goto end

:solo
doom
goto end

:client
echo Enter IP address of server:
answer
echo.
echo You entered an answer of %ANSWER%
pause
ipxnet connect %ANSWER%
setup
goto end

:end

[lmerckx]

@jimmc I haven't changed the port in DosBox, but the ipxnet command requested me one.

I used:
ipxnet startserver 6969
and
ipxnet connect <server> 6969

I had an error without the port. Perhaps the default one was used.
I haven't checked further, in fact.

[lmerckx]

For more information on this modification, check here:
https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/12481/testers-wanted-dosbox-update