starcraft

[JoeHill]

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?

This page might help, not sure if this is the right version of Starcraft: 

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=149

There are some tips on getting battle.net to 'behave', apparently it uses IPX
(huh? haven't seen that in awhile...), but you can update the game to use UDP. 

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JoeHill
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