starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

Chris Aitken wrote:
> Tyler Aviss wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> I've never used wine - I'm reading the man page now. It looks like I >
>> just point wine to the executable of Starcraft..
>>
>> Assuming the copy-protection issues can be ignored. Yeah, just pop in
>> the CD and have wine run setup.exe or whatever. 
> Well, I'm getting somewhere. I popped in the CD, nautilus displayed 
> its contents, I right-clicked setup.exe, chose "Open with Wine Windows 
> Emulator", installed Starcraft. I had my son try it out. He showed me 
> that 'Single Player' is working, but when he goes to 'Multi-Player' > 
> 'Battle.Net a little box popped up but minus the status bar which 
> shows it is downloading stuff. This box (which does not give us the 
> status bar) then disappears. Isn't .Net an MS technology - would it be 
> stupid to expect it to work in linux?
>
> It was exciting to hear the sound and see the installation and 
> everything. I'm getting close...
>
> There was a Direct Cable Connection option - maybe I'll try that...
No, that's not what I thought it would be - that won't work.

Any ideas on getting online to work?

Chris

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