The changes in those function replaces all the IPX socket creation request with UDP socket, and the IPX message sending with UDP broadcast. What the patch does is pretty simple, the name of the DLL is “ wsock32.dll” so when the process tries to load winsock, instead of getting the original Windows DLL, it will get our new DLL which hooks three major functions: socket, bind and sendto (and some other minor ones in order to trick the process to believe it is using IPX).

All you need to do, is to extract this patch to the Red Alert 2 directory. Luckily, someone else solved that problem for me, and created a patch that converts the IPX to UDP.

The first problem was that Red Alert 2 uses IPX which is a obsolete and most OS doesn’t support any longer. I’ve tried to launch the game with Wine, and it launched perfectly, the only problem was that network play didn’t work at all. I’ve been in a friend house in the north, and he had a copy of the game, and we decided why not giving it a shot. One of those old games I wished to play was Red Alert 2. The problem is, that most of the old games doesn’t have a mac version, and even if so not an intel processor mac version.

Boot camp allows the windows partition to use all of the max resources, while running in a VM forces it to be shared.Few months ago, I bought a MacBook air and I’m pretty satisfied. One of the problems I’ve encountered, Is playing old games.Įvery now and then, You will find an old game that you wish to play again. I went with boot camp when I wanted to run newer games that needed more resources to run properly. I found that the old CnC games were light enough that running them in a VM worked fine. Bootcamp is a fully supported feature and is pretty easy to set up and use. VMWare is a paid program, but you could try virtual box, which is free.īoot Camp: Partition your hard drive and install windows on one of the partitions. I run some old Win XP and Win 7 virtual machines on VMWare, and play the CnC games within the VM. Besides that, it can be a little buggy and unstable. Unfortunately, OSX dropped support for 32 bit functionality in the latest versions, so this option is only available if you're on an older build. Porting Kit is a cool utility that does all the hard work for you. Wine: Wine is a toolkit that allows Macs to run programs designed for windows in OSX.

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