udpsetup - a new DOS Doom networking driver for 2023

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udpsetup is a new Doom network driver that allows Internet play under Windows 9x and DOS. It does the same thing as ipxsetup or sersetup, but it communicates over the UDP protocol. I've just done the first full release of it (it's part of a suite of Doom engine programs that I call Vanilla Utilities).

 

 

 

The program supports multiple network stacks. Most importantly, it supports the Winsock interfaces used on Windows 9x, so if you have a vintage machine running 95 or 98, you can use it on that (it even supports Windows 3.1!). But you can also play it under pure DOS using the MSClient TCP/IP stack. 

 

But the key feature here that I think people will find interesting is that I made a design decision to use the DOSbox IPX protocol. When you use this driver you're essentially running an "emulated" IPX game internally, just like if you were using ipxsetup. The result is that DOSbox can connect to udpsetup servers, and udpsetup can connect to DOSbox servers, so people with vintage/retro machines can play with people who just want to use emulation. You can see this in the video above (window at the top right is a DOSbox client)

 

It works with all Doom engine games (Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Chex Quest, etc.) and most DOS source ports. If you want to play Rise of the Triad or BUILD engine games like Duke3D, there are also adapters so that you can use it with those (example video).

 

Download and instructions

• Vanilla Utilities 2.0 (contains UDPSETUP.EXE; you may also need to use WS2PATCH.EXE on Windows 98)
• UDPSETUP-HOWTO: Detailed instructions on how to set up games

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A few weeks ago, I went on your YT channel (again) and saw w3.11 vs w98 via udpsetup! wonderful!

 

good job!!! o/