starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

Tyler Aviss wrote:

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> Now, in regards to the battle.net stuff, usually that progress bar etc
> shows up when it is downloading updates from the website.
Yes, that's what my son tells me.
>  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.
>   
It's actually a store-bought copy in the store-bought case with CD-Key 
on it. He was playing Starcraft from his machine (with W98) a week ago. 
I wonder if Battle.Net keeps a record of his IP address (though that 
wouldn't make sense as his IP address would change every time I reboot 
the cable modem (or more often?)) so he doesn't try to play from the 
same CD-Key on two machines. Or maybe it keeps a record of his MAC 
address. I'm trying to get Starcraft going on my box before I install 
linux on his. So, we're not doing anything (license-wise) that Blizzard 
would not like, but they may not know that...
> 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, ?? )
>   
fedora 7

Chris

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