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                                            Simon Howard

Allow For Selection of TAP Device Number

Thanks for the suggestion. Taking a look at the `water` library that ipxbox uses for creating TAP devices, it looks like this is possible but rather complicated because it needs...

Like qemu net user to connect to internet?

Qemu uses slirp to do that. In theory it could be done here too. This would only be for the ipxpkt feature though, for IPX networking you need raw network...

Win98 IPXBox PPTP no connection to Dos Dali

Can you state which game this is? It would be helpful if you could definitively narrow it down to one or the other. The most straightforward way would be to...

Win98 IPXBox PPTP no connection to Dos Dali

Thanks, any data you can provide to help me figure it out will be very helpful.

Win98 IPXBox PPTP no connection to Dos Dali

Looks like Dali isn't byte-swapping the length field properly for its keepalive pings: ```python >>> "%x" % 7680 '1e00' >>> 0x1e 30 ```

Win98 IPXBox PPTP no connection to Dos Dali

Thanks for all the detailed information. Is there any chance you could get a packet dump of the PPTP stream?

No IPX/SPX-compatible Protocol -> Microsoft Virtual Private Networking Adapter on Windows 98

You need to have the IPX/SPX protocol installed and the server will reject the connection if you don't support IPX, so that is probably why. Error 751 isn't what I'd...

Demo recording and playback

Could also be useful for #10, in that demo recordings of high scoring games could be uploaded as proof

Improve sound/music playback timing

I think I fixed this in 97d4b004ece5a3b822b568ddc5d1974bf3f7e43b - can you confirm?

Kamikaziing the last building in a level makes you "fly into the sunset" inside the destroyed building

Ah, to clarify a bit what the bug is here: If you kamikaze the last building, the building gets destroyed and you "fly into the sunset" inside the crashed building,...