PvPGN (Player vs Player Gaming Network) is a

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project offering

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of various gaming network servers. It is published under the

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and based upon

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. It supports most features for

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"classic" games ('' Diablo'', ''

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'', '' Diablo II: Lord of Destruction'', ''

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'', '' StarCraft: Brood War'', '' Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition'', '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'', '' Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne''). It also offers basic support for Westwood Online clients ('' Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun'', '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'', '' Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge''). Westwood support is still at an experimental state.

Typical uses

A PvPGN Server can be used: *When wanting to host a local tournament with local users and ladders. *When wanting to maintain a local community of friends rather than playing on

. *For people who want to play on a LAN but with Battle.net-like statistics. Various

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s use a PvPGN server for this purpose. *For people who want to play on a server within their country or local area, so as to reduce lag.

Supported protocols

The list of supported clients and their minimum version required is: *

** '' Diablo I'' 1.09 ** ''

'' 1.16.1.1 ** '' Starcraft: Brood War'' 1.16.1.1 ** '' Warcraft II Battle.Net Edition'' 2.02 ** ''

'' 1.09 and 1.10 (and unofficially 1.11b, 1.12a) ** '' Diablo II: Lord of Destruction'' 1.09 and 1.10 (and unofficially 1.11b, 1.12a, 1.13c) ** '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'' 1.21 ** '' Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne'' 1.21 (and 1.22.0.6328) *'' Westwood'' Online ** ''

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'' Win95 edition v1.04a (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert'' Win95 edition v2.00 and v3.03 (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun'' v2.03 ST-10 (Alpha in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Firestorm'' (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'' 1.006 (Alpha in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge'' v1.001 (Alpha in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Renegade'' (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** ''

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'' v1.02b (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Nox Quest'' v1.02b (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** ''

Dune 2000 ''Dune 2000'' is a real-time strategy video game, developed by Intelligent Games and released by Westwood Studios in 1998 for Microsoft Windows. It was later ported to the PlayStation in 1999. It is a partial remake of ''Dune II'', which is loos ...

'' v1.06 (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Emperor: Battle for Dune'' v1.09 (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99)

Supported platforms

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4.x 5.x 6.x 7.x 8.x *

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2.4 and later *

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10.2 and up *

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5x/6x kernel,

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* Platform support should be easy on any POSIX compatible system. (Tested on 32 and 64 bit platforms, various integer byte endings, etc.)

Code style and development

PvPGN is

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, licensed under the

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. It is written in the

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; its source code is hosted in a

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repository. PvPGN is mature and highly scalable - a single server instance is capable of ove
21,000 real-time connections

C++ branch

Starting with PvPGN 1.99, a new branch was created and work is underway to incrementally convert the codebase to

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. The new branch is hosted in

Apache Subversion Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name ''svn'') is a software versioning and revision control system distributed as open source under the Apache License. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and hist ...

rather than CVS.

External links

* *{{wikia, pvpgn Free network-related software Free emulation software Server emulators