I want to play an old dosgame from 1995. U can play it together on one computer with hotseat modus.
My question: Is it possible to play this offline game online with hotseat?! I want to play this football manager
with dosbox in windows 7 in fullscreen. Also this game only needs the mouse cursor to play.
I read in the www u can do this with "teamviewer", but without fullscreen, overlapping mouse and laggy play.
Also i try to use "real vnc". There were the problem i couldnt handle the mouse.
Can anyone help me Plesse?!

Ummm... I'm going to say no...

Hotseat implies using the same computer, so you play your round of decisions and do your thing, then click 'done' and then say as you go to the living room 'k you're turn' and watch the rest of your episode of Friends (or whatever is interesting at the time). If you want to do it online, you'll either:

a) Transfer an open save game back and forth
b) Make it multi-player and just wait to see a notification saying he's finished and it's time to see how it turned out.


edit: Although some games might give you a snippet of code you can send via email that entails all the information of your turn, and when all the data is on all computers you'll see the outcome... Good for something like Chess...

Thanks for answering so fast.
But can u give me more details for method "a" and "b"?

Method A:

Find the save location for your game (probably in the game folder or under a save folder); Zip down the files and either upload it to a directory/location that you can share, or send it via email to your friend. They will install it, play, re-zip it and send it back to you. Rinse and repeat. Expect many a headaches as you might accidentally re-open older files and replay previous rounds or corrupt your game.

Method B:

Game has Multi-player via TCP/IP or TCP/IPX or something similar. Find out your/their IP address via ipconfig, then get an active connection either by in game menu or through a command-line command specifying the host/client relationship.

Then leave the game on constantly and play as you get around to it; Probably to keep your system usable otherwise have it in a window instead of Full-Screen. Just hope that it doesn't auto play the resolving sequence when he clicks 'done' otherwise you'll totally miss what ultimately happened.

Method C:

DOS game you say? Unlikely, since it has no concept of clipboard/copy-paste. If it were a windows game it might offer such an option (Like ChessMaster). If it were a Unix game, it might have an option too as outputting via stdout is actually common practice, which you can then feed to gzip and then your favorite email program along with header, response, and appropriate notes.

Sending save file via email is very easy with this game, only copy and paste. But here are often
situations u cannot use this method. For example: In my turn other player have to regulate something.
Also this game has nothing like multiplayer option, only hotseat. But thank you.

Maybe i overlook something by testing "teamviewer" or "vnc"...?

Don't know, i haven't played a football manager game...

Although you might get away using a VM. Something like VirtualBox, and then share it's ip address that has windows XP or something installed, then use an emulator in that and have them connect in and play over the internet. It would simulate the hotseat requirement and keep the save in one location.

Using VirtualBox through remote connection reminds me of PCAnywhere which quickly lost it's footing once non-dialup internet was available, and XP offers it for free with one or two minor tweaks to the OS to enable that, which i'm not sure how to do it myself.

@rtcvb32: thank u for the support.

but i found the way by using "real vnc". now i can play the game online in hot seat modus:
press F8 and choose "relative mouse cursor movement" (maybe there is another english
description, in german: "Relative Zeigerbewegung").
now i can play it also in fullscreen. but it laggs a bit. for playing the footballmanager no problem.