Starcraft is Over-Rated

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:01:04 +0000

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Starcraft 2 recently came out so, naturally, I just installed Starcraft for the first time. A few years ago, I decided to atone for that summer my brothers and I had played Warcraft III from an illicit copy by buying the Warcraft III Batlle Chest. It was a pretty awesome deal - for $20 I got the main game, the expansion, and strategy guides for both games. The following year I bought the equivalent bundle for Starcraft. I would have played it about six months ago when Dina’s boyfriend, a Starcraft (and Blizzard, in general) fan was over the house. But, a bug in Windows XP kept the game from installing. When I tried it again this weekend, it worked.

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Installing and Running Warcraft III via Wine

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:01:16 +0000

First I updated Wine to 1.0.0 (It didn’t work properly on 0.94) on Ubuntu. In there I have D as the CDROM drive. So I typed wine d:\install.exe This installed just fine

Here’s what happened with 0.94 when I first started this post:

But the first time I clicked to play it, it did not work. The screen just went blank. When I restarted X, edited the registry keys as it says to do on the Wine site and started it up, this time it started up When I tried to play the first campaign it froze up Gnome so I restarted X again Wine FAQ says the movies folder should be renamed for stability reasons

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Warcraft on It's a Binary World 2.0

Starcraft is Over-Rated

Installing and Running Warcraft III via Wine