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How would I make two players connect to play a game - Networking?

 
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How would I make two players connect to play a game - Networking?
devilsson2010
27 Jan, 2008 - 01:58 AM
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Some of you may have played the online checkers game that comes with windows. Well I want to do something similar, and have two or more people connect to each other and then play a game. But can anyone tell me what I would use to accomplish this? I'd google it but it's hard to google something that you don't know have in words.
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27 Jan, 2008 - 04:26 AM
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I think you need to learn sockets. Sockets can be used for communication across networks and the internet. If you plan to do it under windows, you will need to learn Winsock, for Unix and Linux you need to learn plain Sockets. I don't know of any good Winsock tutorials so you will need to google it.

However, I can help you with Unix/Linux sockets. Read this tutorial.

An example winsock program I found on this site is here.

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27 Jan, 2008 - 12:48 PM
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Thanks, that help a lot. biggrin.gif
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