Networking is Alive BUT…
Progress on the networking code in A&A is coming along. I now have the ability to send packets from Classic A&A v1.02 in DOSBox to a special A&A Server and have it send packets to another instance running Classic A&A v1.02 Windows version. I am excited with the ability to see the traffic with tools we didn’t have back then. Not only do I get multiple windows in the Windows version, but I can even dig deeper with Wireshark and look at the raw packets and timing. This is good stuff. Except for one thing … it doesn’t play the game.
Sad. And the problem is more of a devil than I would have expected.