wine users - May 2006 - Warcraft 3 & Starcraft run _without_ a CD crack!

I got Starcraft and Warcraft 3 working without a CD Crack using wine.

The trick is a link in the ~/.wine/dosdevices directory to your mounted 
CD-Rom directory with the name: "d:"

for example if you starcraft CD is mounted in /media/STARCRAFT then 
enter the following commands:
cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
ln -s /media/STARCRAFT d:

Don't connect the the Battle.net. Starcraft will crash and Warcraft 3 
will not work any more after a update. (It then have problems to find 
the CD again)

--- Florian K???berle <FloriansKarten@web.de> wrote:
> I got Starcraft and Warcraft 3 working without a CD Crack using wine.
> 
> The trick is a link in the ~/.wine/dosdevices directory to your mounted 
> CD-Rom directory with the name: "d:"
> 
> for example if you starcraft CD is mounted in /media/STARCRAFT then 
> enter the following commands:
> cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
> ln -s /media/STARCRAFT d:
> 
> Don't connect the the Battle.net. Starcraft will crash and Warcraft 3 
> will not work any more after a update. (It then have problems to find 
> the CD again)
> 
I have not used starcraft in a while but Warcraft 3 has worked (without a crack)
for
almost a year for me with what ever the latest version of wine was at the time
as
long as I have had no microsoft dlls installed. Also for me I use battlenet and
I
have not found a single problem with the upgrades.

John