Sure linux will play the latest and greatest games out-2-date, yet loading up a decade old game like StarCraft has been a teeth pulling experance. Enough! Check out PlayOnLinux for an (almost) pain free installation AND patch set-up. "PlayOnLinux is a tool to help Linux users run Windows games on linux, via the use of wine. This tool is free and written in bash. [It has a graphical user interface.] It already supports more than 30 games; anyone can help development (by posting new script which allows games to run)."
To install PlayOnLinux...
- sudo wget http://playonlinux.botux.net/playonlinux.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
- wget -q http://playonlinux.botux.net/pol.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
- sudo aptitude update
- sudo aptitude -P install playonlinux
- playonlinux &
Install Starcraft, install broodwars, install the latest bw patch, then play. The game appears to run flawless, yet battle.net usability SUCKS. The fonts appear on another window layer, wth? Just alt+tab to re-allign the layers and/or guess.
Bottom line... Starcraft in linux that works and took only minutes to set-up. Yay!
Starcraft Ubuntu Linux Img
Working games include
Source: http://www.playonlinux.com/scripts_v2/show_repository.php
Age of Wonders, Age Of Empires 2 : The Age of kings, Baldur's Gate, Best One Poker, Breath of Fire IV, Cacodemon’s Barbecue Party in Hell, Caesar3, Call of Duty 2, CivNet, Command And Conquer 3 - Tiberium Wars, Crayon Physics, Dark Age of Camelot : Trials of Atlantis, Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic, Dawn Of War : Dark Crusade, Diablo II, Druid Soccer, The Elder Scrolls 4 - Oblivion, Etherlords 2, Fable : The Lost Chapters, Flatout 2, Forbidden, Full Tilt Poker, Future Pinball, Grand Teft Auto : San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto 2, Guild Wars, Half-Life 1, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Star Wars : Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy, Star Wars : Jedi Knight II : Jedi Outcast, Last Chaos, Legacy Of Kain : Defiance, Max Payne 2 : The Fall of Max Payne, Moo, Painkiller, Pharaon, Pluto Strikes Back (free), PokerStars, Prey, Prince Of Persia - Sands of Time, Prince Of Persia - Warrior Within, Ragnarok Online, Rally Championship 2000, Reflexive Arcade games, RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, Silkroad Online, Soldat, Soldier of Fortune Platinum, Sonic Adventure DX, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow Of Chernobyl, Star Wars - Episode 1 : Racer, Starcraft, Steam, Stunt GP, StarWars : Knights Of The Old Republic, StarWars : Knights Of The Old Republic : The Sith Lords, The Truth About Game Development, Tomb Raider II La dague de Xian, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Tomb Raider Legend, Tomb Raider III Les aventures de Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, TotalAnnihilation, Warcraft III, World Of Warcraft, Worms World Party, Diablo II : Lord Of Destruction, Steam HL2 mod : Insurgency Beta 1, The Elder Scrolls 4 - Knight Of The Nine, The Elder Scrolls 4 - Shivering Isle, Painkiller : Battle Out Of Hell, Steam HL2 mod : Pirates Vikings And Knights II Beta 1.1, Starcraft : BroodWar, Natural Selection, Steam HL1 mod : Sven Co-Op, Warcraft III : The Frozen Throne, World Of Warcraft : The Burning Crusade
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