Old School Troubles

[B737-900ER]

Hi all,

I am new to the forum and I really need some info. Some close friends and I still like to play MS Comabat Flight Sim 1 (europe). We have played this on line for years. First on the "ZONE". Soon that became a hassle so we would make a few ph. calls get a host IP address from one of the players and all meet there and play for hours. Well about 4 months ago, that all came to a skreeching halt. We can no longer multi-player. It used to be very easy.....click host and get the IP address......tell everyone the #.......then everyone would meet in the ready room, talk some trash, then fight it out. Is there something I'm missing. I know CFS1 is no longer supported on the "Zone" but we were not playing there. Is this a MS plot to get us old schoolers ie "maliscious windows updates"? HELP IF YOU CAN PLEASE.