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Having scanned this forum I realized that DirectPlay is quite a deserted landscape here.
Nevertheless this question:
I studied the DirectX tutorials and succeeded in setting up a local multiplayer game.
I realized this by giving 255.255.255.255 as IP address and starting a few instances of the very same game. Everything worked fine.
But how about communicating via internet?
Would this be as easy?
And what if you want to use a lobby lauchend application?