Why can’t you stop buying 618?From the technical dimension to explore>>>

Before, some popular old games, such as red alert, Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo and so on, are online based on IPX protocol, but in the current most used Windows 7 and windows 10 systems, this protocol is no longer available. If you want to go online, you must download the IPX driver file of the corresponding system for installation, which is troublesome to operate

This paper introduces a simple tool ipxwrapper , its principle is to simulate IPX through UDP package

At the same time, this is an open source project, the relevant address is as follows:

Official website

Source code repository

Download ipxwrapper-0.6.1.zip | alternate download link 1 | alternate download link 2

After downloading, follow these steps:

Unzip all the files and copy them to the root directory of the game. If the files already exist, choose to overlay them

According to the current system version, execute the directplay-win32. Reg or directplay-win64. Reg file to add the registry

Double click to run the ipxconfig.exe file to configure the network card (generally by default). When there are multiple network cards, click the unnecessary network card under the network adapters list, and then cancel the check of enable interface to avoid multiple network card options in the network settings of the game

friendly tips : for these old games, it is recommended to run in compatibility mode and select “Windows XP SP3”