[casual_games] DirectPlay

[Allan Simonsen]

DP was deprecated in DirectX SDK Summer Update 2004. 

>From the release notes:
* DirectPlay is no longer supported. Microsoft are
dropping DirectPlay completely although the
functionality in this release is the same as previous
releases apart from the lack of a debug dll. Also the
help files no longer mention DirectPlay and there are
no DirectPlay samples. You can get the old DirectPlay
documentation from MSDN. The rumour is that Microsoft
will release the XBox networking solution as an
alternative.


I'm not certain if there's a replacement comming out
with Vista; we'll see. If you're looking for a simple
replacement, you might want to look at ENet
(http://enet.cubik.org/) which has a nice and clean
reliable protocol over UDP.

Allan


> This is my first post, so hi to everybody :)
> 
> Some time ago, I studied DirectPlay, and I found it
> very interesting (I studied Winsock too). Why most
> of you say that DirectPlay is deprecated? Just
> because it hasn't evolved since DX version 8.1?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Cristián.
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Allan Simonsen                    simonsen at rocketmail.com
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