starcraft

[Tyler Aviss]

Hello Chris,


Yes, .net is a Microsoft programming suite, however that is not what
battle.net refers to. In this case, it refers to the battle.net
website (.net being a domain like .com, .org, etc), also found at
http://www.battle.net

As for the other options: Direct Cable connection refers to a (very
old) way of networking two computers via a serial cable. Battle.net is
the only way to play online unless you're playing with others on the
same local network (LAN Game).

Now, in regards to the battle.net stuff, usually that progress bar etc
shows up when it is downloading updates from the website. So maybe
your wine can't get online, or there's some other issue connecting to
the battle.net site. If you have a cracked version of the game, the
invalid key might also prevent this.

I'll see if I can dig up my CD and install with vanilla wine and,
failing that, perhaps with Cedega.

You may have mentioned it before, but... what variety of Linux are you
using (RedHat, Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, ?? )





On 9/26/07, Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> 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...
>
> Chris
>
> <snip>
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