WinROTT Networking

[TheLedZepplin]

I'd like to setup a LAN Party this weekend.

I have WinRottGL working on a couple machines (v1.44 and v1.48).
The machines are Windows 7 however, so there's no IPX stack.
TCP/IP does not appear as a provider in those versions, in fact the list is empty.
I have tried v2.24 but that version crashes with a "can't malloc" errror.

Suggestions?

[Bert]

I ran into that malloc error a while ago. It's an easy fix.

Winrott.c line 1294

if (dwAvailPhysRamOnMachine > MAXMEMORYSIZE){
lMAXMEMORYSIZE = dwAvailPhysRamOnMachine;
}else{
lMAXMEMORYSIZE = MAXMEMORYSIZE;
}

should be

if (dwAvailPhysRamOnMachine < MAXMEMORYSIZE){
lMAXMEMORYSIZE = dwAvailPhysRamOnMachine;
}else
{
lMAXMEMORYSIZE = MAXMEMORYSIZE;
}

You can't allocate more memory than you have available. WinROTT also shouldn't use the GlobalMemoryStatus function, since it can report incorrect info (which is how I found the bug). It should use GlobalMemoryStatusEx.

[Neuro]

^ Somebody give this guy a job at WinROTT Studios

[GrimWoman]

I dosen't even seem that anyone is working on winrott anymore.

[jbailey]

Well I haven't heard from birger in a good while, and official winrott
(not winrottgl) development work stopped a long time ago, there's
supposed to be another new version of winrottgl, but birgers' h/d died,
and he lost most if not all of the work he had at that time, I've not heard
anything new since then ( about 6 months). Of course there is nothing
stopping anyone from getting the current sources for winrott and winrottgl
and making their own changes if they wish. If I get any new info, I'll post here...