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Re: StarCraft I Goes Free with Today's New Patch (1.18)

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Post by podiki » Wed, Apr 19, 2017, 3:23 AM UTC

flukus wrote: post #19

dyu- wrote: post #10

Hopefully they'll add linux support with that new opengl backend they have

Anyone know how well it runs on wine?

#3 [1] on the Top-10 Platinum list on WineHQ [2]. Platinum being "applications which install and run flawlessly on an out-of-the-box Wine installation."

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

https://appdb.winehq.org/

Re: StarCraft I Goes Free with Today's New Patch (1.18)

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Post by terrywang » Wed, Apr 19, 2017, 4:51 AM UTC

dyu- wrote: post #10

Hopefully they'll add linux support with that new opengl backend they have

It was one of those very first batch of games that Wine used to promote itself ;-)

Single player mode should be perfectly fine. Multiplayer mode which requires network may require some manual work (e.g. IPX and battle.net).

Re: StarCraft I Goes Free with Today's New Patch (1.18)

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Post by thomastjeffery » Wed, Apr 19, 2017, 5:19 AM UTC

terrywang wrote: post #22

dyu- wrote: post #10

Hopefully they'll add linux support with that new opengl backend they have

It was one of those very first batch of games that Wine used to promote itself ;-) Single player mode should be perfectly fine. Multiplayer mode which requires network may require some manual work (e.g. IPX and battle.net).

It has been the other way around for a while (8 years, apparently). Since UDP was added as a network option, there has been no need to use IPX.

The very oldschool drawing methods were the biggest issue with wine. I had it working ~6 years ago, but it wasn't exactly easy. PlayOnLinux helps a lot, though.