starcraft

[Tyler Aviss]

It should only use IPX when playing LAN games with other people on the
same network, so you probably don't have to worry much about that.

On 9/26/07, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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