Hi Shaun, I don't know what reasoning Microsoft has for fasing out DirectPlay from game development, but there certainly are alternatives. Developers can use a generic game server using winsock and .NET developers can use remoting to build game servers. As for Topspeed I hate to sound or come off rude but like far too many accessible games Topspeed 2 was designed with outdated technologies from the start. In all honesty anyone still using VB 6 and DirectX 8 after 2005 is asking for trouble as both technologies have been strongly discurraged by MS for a long time, and in 2008 I believe both will be fased completely out of Microsoft's official support cycles. After that accessible games as we know them can only be played on older systems, and as long as newer operating systems after Vista will still run the apps by adding and patching the os with older libs manually. Che was very smart with Railracer as it is developed with .NET technologies, and I believe he did his network server using Winsock.
shaun everiss wrote: > any reason why ms are killing direct play and what they will replace it with? > It will mean that stuff like topspeed multiplayer will be non playable. > Not sure about railracer, or any of the vipgameszone stuff, railracer has its > own custom made server. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
