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The DirectPlay application programming interface (API) provides developers with the tools to develop multiplayer applications such as games or chat clients.
However Microsoft DirectPlay has been deprecated. and as far as I'm concerned, there is no replacement in the latest version of DirectX.
So I suggest you could try to look at an alternative like Winsock2.
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Jeanine
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