I recently got myself a netbook. Since they're not very powerful pc's I dug out a couple old favorites to see if could LAN them. I installed Diablo 1 on the desktop (Win XP pro) and on the netbook (Win XP Pro) and took it to battlenet. Couldn't join my own game since the latency was too high. I quickly discovered with some googling that you can't bnet Diablo 1 within the same connection. Not a problem - XP supports IPX, so I'll just LAN it!
Well I hosted a LAN on the desktop, but when I got into the lan options on the netbook, it only gave me an option to "Create Game". It appears as if I am unable to join a game on my LAN! Does anyone have some tips on resolving this? Could it be because I installed and ran D1 from an image file on the netbook (they don't have optical drives)?
Any help would be appreciated!
M.
I have had the same problems, I have also spent sometime trying to get this to work and cannot. It really is frustrating so if you ever find out how to fix this or if anyone knows can you pleaes respond.
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