starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

JoeHill wrote:
> Chris Aitken wrote: 
>
>   
>> Tyler Aviss wrote:
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>>> 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
>   
I see Starcraft Broodwar there but no Starcraft.

Chris

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