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From: Paul Gustavson
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 00:00

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>  I have heard about DirectPlay a library of control for games programming.
>
>  Anyone heard about it?

 DirectPlay is part of the DirectX Game SDK from Microsoft.
DirectPlay is the Multiplayer network component which is
made up of an API  and DLL (called a service provider)
that allows you to write your game independent of the network medium.
There are multiple service provider DLLs (TCP/IP, IPX, TAPI, etc..)
Currently I think all Service Providers are Microsoft built, but there's
Service Provider's developer's kit available in which other folks can
develop service provider dlls.  Basically you write your code based on
the API methods.  A gui dialog in your program selects the type of network
which in turn would load the appropriate service provider dll.  and all
receptions and transmissions would be accomplished via the API calls.

That's it in a nut shell.

You can downlaod DX5 from Microsoft.  Or call them to get a CD.

Paul

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From: "Paul Gustavson" <pgustav@illuminet.net>
Subject: Re: DirectPlay
Date: 1997/08/18
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