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Q: Age of Empires PC-Apple ( No Answer, 2 Comments )

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Subject: Age of Empires PC-Apple
Category: Computers > Games
Asked by: macaonghus-ga
List Price: $5.00

Posted: 15 Apr 2004 08:16 PDT
Expires: 15 Apr 2004 14:27 PDT
Question ID: 330688

I have Windows XP. My friend has an Apple Mac with OSX. Can we play
Age of Empires multiplayer direct p2p?

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Subject: Re: Age of Empires PC-Apple
From: stephenvakil-ga on 15 Apr 2004 11:50 PDT

No you cannot.

http://www.atarisupport.com/faq/ageofempires_mac.asp#mplayer

I believe the reason is that the original game was made to use
DirectPlay, which is a proprietary windows API.

Subject: Re: Age of Empires PC-Apple
From: macaonghus-ga on 15 Apr 2004 14:26 PDT

Thank you.

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