DirectPlay/3D

I'm not faimiliar with Directplay at all, but i was wondering first if It can be used with 3D? But heres a few questions:

1. Is their a maximum number of players with DirectPlay?
2. Does this mean that each player shares acces to memory types etc?
3. Does anyone have an example of using hostnetgame, and especially any idea how to start off a 3d game with netgame?
4. Is their another blitz based program I can use to do this? Gnet maybe? If Gnet can somone gimme a example?

Thanks for any help guys, I really appreciate it. I want to start playing around with a 3d server.

i believe that the online docs have examples for direct play. There is no reason, to my knowledge, why it cant be used in 3d. Now, after all that I really think that you should avoid using direct play and make your on udp system.