Worms United Multiplayer with IPX

[Worm-Sky]

Hello

i've searched the last 6 hours for solving my problem but i didn't found anything.
So I registered here and hope someone could help me.

what happened:

I've installed "Worms United" on 2 PCs (both: WindowsXP with DosBox 0.47).

Then I connected them via IPX (over the dosbox) and... ist worked.
I can play with someone else on 2 different PCs.. so far so cool!

But there is one f**** thing that does not work: I cant save anything!!!

When we enter new teams, we can play with them and after a game, the game statistics are updated. But after closing the game and dosbox.. and then restarting.. There is nothing left. As if we never played.

When I go to the Options Menu to "Save Statistics" it does not help too.

Maybe it has something to do with a so called "net cfg File" whatever it is..because.. when i start a session with ipx it always says (on both PC's) "no net cfg file".

What is this? How can i get it? How can i make my pc produce it? :-) What is the correct path for this file?

I did a lot of experiments and i realized, that if i delete the worms.cfg file, the program produces a new one.
But when i do the same in multiplayer-mode (in the hope that the program produces a net.cfg or something else) .. nothing happens.

Can someone please help me?


Thanks!
Worms-Sky

[CakeDoer]

Save a state in DOSBox.

[Worm-Sky]

Hey CakeDoer,

what do you mean exactly? Can you describe it please?

[Lex]

DOSbox doesn't have state-saving. CakeDoer's "solution" is a dead end.

My suggestion is to not close DOSbox when you're done playing. Just leave it running. It doesn't really take much processing power.

[CakeDoer]

Bah, all emulators I've used have had state-saving so I naturally assumed DOSBox could do it too. It's basically making an exact image of the game's state in the second you've saved it, so you can resume instantly (kinda like in-game saves, but it doesn't have restrictions).

[Worm-Sky]

Thank you for your support!

DosBox has no state-saving - so that is no solution for me. Running DosBox all the time isn't a solution, too :-)

But "state saving" was a good point!

Iam currently working on a solution without DosBox. I would try it with Microsoft Virtual PC with DOS 6.22.
Microsoft Virtual PC has the posibility to connect pcs over LAN .. and to the internet.. and has some kind of state saving.

no plan if it works with IPX.. but i will try!

thank you guys