EPTI don't think it'll work on bnet, but may do the trick for quick LAN skirmishes. I have almost not tested them, so things might not work as they should.
ICC version: [url blocked]
monikon version: [url blocked]
Portable Starcraft for Linux
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RazZziel
Spain15 Posts
I don't think it'll work on bnet, but may do the trick for quick LAN skirmishes. I have almost not tested them, so things might not work as they should. ICC version: [url blocked] monikon version: [url blocked] | ||
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
Thus, I would appreciate it greatly if you could provide a bit more information about what, exactly, I would be downloading. Thank you, good sir. Edit: Linux has been good to me and if somebody can confirm that this is legit, I will be overjoyed. | ||
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kXn
254 Posts
On October 09 2010 18:23 Gummy wrote: The last time I downloaded something from megaupload, my computer was infected with a horse porn virus, which is like a regular virus, only with horse porn. No offense, but LMAO | ||
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RazZziel
Spain15 Posts
Besides, the only other files that are run when the package is executed, are the AppRun, which is a bash script that creates ~/.starcraft/ and runs "wine Starcraft.exe", and wine itself, which is a minimal version of the latest wine I downloaded from ubuntu repositories (wine1.3_1.3.4-0ubuntu1~lucidppa1_i386); you can md5 all the binaries and libraries. Then, there's only the ELF itself, which I'm not sure where it exactly comes from. It's been created using "AppImageAssistant 0.8" from http://portablelinuxapps.org/ , and you can find the source code in http://portablelinuxapps.org/source/ (looks outdated, though) Alternatively, just burn some live USB using http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ and run starcraft on a read-only operative system; that way you'll be safe from any harm on the internets  | ||
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figq
12519 Posts
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Kms
Australia126 Posts
On October 09 2010 18:23 Gummy wrote: The last time I downloaded something from megaupload, my computer was infected with a horse porn virus, which is like a regular virus, only with horse porn. Damn, a horse porn virus? I'm sorry, but ROFL! What exactly were you trying to download in the first place? | ||
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konadora
Singapore66365 Posts
On October 09 2010 18:23 Gummy wrote: The last time I downloaded something from megaupload, my computer was infected with a horse porn virus, which is like a regular virus, only with horse porn. oh god i lol'd | ||
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letian
Germany4221 Posts
On October 09 2010 18:12 RazZziel wrote: I thought some of you guys might enjoy this. It's a portable version of Starcraft for Linux. The files are both an ELF executable AND an ISO image, so you can chmod u+x it and run it, or fuseiso it and mount it. It has a minimal wine installation inside, so you should not need to have anything installed on the machine to run it, besides fuse so the executable can mount itself (which is almost always already installed). I don't think it'll work on bnet, but may do the trick for quick LAN skirmishes. I have almost not tested them, so things might not work as they should. ICC version: [url blocked] monikon version: [url blocked] Starcraft runs on Linux without any tricks, just install wine or play on linux. I doubt that you will be able to play your games in battlenet, I didn't try anyway, cause Starcarft runs in wine like chit,its choppy and slow, widescreen users will play a widescreen starcraft, that should be configured separately, well all in all its a Pain in the ass, so I never bother to setup any games under Linux except for textmode quests. Instead I left some space for my windows partition, and happily dualboot. But still thanks, I will keep in it in mind. | ||
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waxypants
United States479 Posts
On October 09 2010 21:49 Kms wrote: Damn, a horse porn virus? I'm sorry, but ROFL! What exactly were you trying to download in the first place? Probably just the horse porn without the virus. | ||
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Kms
Australia126 Posts
On October 09 2010 23:12 waxypants wrote: Probably just the horse porn without the virus. I think you're onto something there... | ||
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Aim Here
Scotland672 Posts
On October 09 2010 22:40 letian wrote: Starcraft runs on Linux without any tricks, just install wine or play on linux. I doubt that you will be able to play your games in battlenet, I didn't try anyway, cause Starcarft runs in wine like chit,its choppy and slow, widescreen users will play a widescreen starcraft, that should be configured separately, well all in all its a Pain in the ass, so I never bother to setup any games under Linux except for textmode quests. Instead I left some space for my windows partition, and happily dualboot. But still thanks, I will keep in it in mind. I have to say, after a little bit of registry tweaking and the like, Starcraft BroodWar ran almost perfectly for me, except that the Battlenet menus were messed up somewhat (and even then, there was a patch that could make a fix of sorts for that). I was happily playing BW on iCCUp (badly) right until Starcraft 2 came out. There are so many factors that can affect the performance (your operating system, graphics card, driver versions library versions, what Wine registry entries you use, what version of wine you use - there are still bugs being inserted and removed that affect Starcraft performance) that saying a sweeping generalisation like 'Starcraft runs in wine like shit' is almost certainly going to be wrong. The worst (or best) you can really say is that your mileage may vary. I find BroodWar works well for me under Linux. | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
On October 09 2010 23:12 waxypants wrote: Probably just the horse porn without the virus. rofl | ||
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RazZziel
Spain15 Posts
On October 10 2010 00:39 Aim Here wrote:There are so many factors that can affect the performance (your operating system, graphics card, driver versions library versions, what Wine registry entries you use, what version of wine you use - there are still bugs being inserted and removed that affect Starcraft performance) that saying a sweeping generalisation like 'Starcraft runs in wine like shit' is almost certainly going to be wrong. Do you know what registry tweaks and wine version work best with BW? The beauty of these packages is we can embed the wine version and registry tweaks we want, and they'll be the same on every machine, disregarding the installed version of Wine, etc. We could even use different registry settings for nvidia and amd users, use tweaks for widescreen users, etc. Also hoers pron thread =| | ||
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Archaic
United States4024 Posts
Ahahaha, wow. This thread took an unexpected turn. | ||
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Boundz(DarKo)
5311 Posts
On October 10 2010 02:48 Archaic wrote: Ahahaha, wow. This thread took an unexpected turn. That's what the foal said. | ||
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xxpack09
United States2160 Posts
On October 09 2010 18:23 Gummy wrote: The last time I downloaded something from megaupload, my computer was infected with a horse porn virus, which is like a regular virus, only with horse porn. Thus, I would appreciate it greatly if you could provide a bit more information about what, exactly, I would be downloading. Thank you, good sir. Edit: Linux has been good to me and if somebody can confirm that this is legit, I will be overjoyed. hahhahahahahahahahhaha how did you get rid of it? | ||
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Toadily
United States837 Posts
what for? uh.. research.. | ||
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
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kingjames01
Canada1603 Posts
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
It disappoints me that, while I did bring up a legitimate concern, nobody has so much as given the time of day to what could potentially be a wonderful resource to those peoples in the community that uses Linux and can't get BW to work properly for the life of them. In fact, since my post describing the tragic events that had, at some point, befallen me, none of you have even responded to the content of the OP and have continued to circle-jerk in what you guys seem to have misinterpreted as a naughty joke. I'm new here, so I can only presume how things run around here based on the handful of threads I've seen and the amazingly well-written commandments, but this community does not seem like one that would either: 1.) Leave an OP offering malicious software open... or 2.) Spend 100% of the responses in a thread rambling off topic. What is this? Reddit? Thanks for your time and consideration. Edit: So apparently, this is just a CD-rip and thus, this thread should be closed immediately since this is in clear violation of copyright policies, and since TL does not harbor pirates. | ||
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