Re: Boogies Cybercafe Problem with Starcraft

[Jamie McCarthy <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

revicon@net-link.net writes:

> We are currently trying to install the game Starcraft at Boogies 
> Cybercafe.  We are running it under WINE, using the directions 
> at http://www.linuxgames.com/starcraft.shtml
> 
> Starcraft seems to work great except for one big snafu.  When 
> the player tries to use network mode (called Battle.net) the 
> whole thing locks up tighter than a drum.  We actually had to 
> kill the x server it was running on, and we still had problems.  
> So far I have not had any luck finding any documentation on 
> using starcraft in linux with battle.net - save to say that 
> there were multiple messages on slashdot saying that it could 
> not be done.

And a few messages on deja.com saying it can't be done.

If you get it working, post your solution to Slashdot :-)
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        Jamie McCarthy
        jamie@mccarthy.org
 http://jamie.mccarthy.org/