StarCraft

[Jon_in_london]

Can anyone tell me if StarCraft for Win 95 will work in XP? If not can anyone direct me to somewhere I can get StarCraft for XP?

You are gentlemen,

[Mongrel]

Installed quickly, got the latest patch from www.Blizzard.com - all works fine :)

[Jon_in_london]

Installed quickly, got the latest patch from www.Blizzard.com (http://www.Blizzard.com) - all works fine :)

Slow down butch! So you have managed to install that Starcraft Win95 verson?

Where did you get the patch from prescisely?

[Mongrel]

Yes managed to install Starcraft, yours probably isn't specifically a Win '95 version just that when you brought it they had to differentiate between Win 95 and DOS (the system specs on mine are Pentium P90, 16MB RAM and 80 Meg HDD space)

Patch is here (http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msc0411p)

[Dark Jaguar]

That's right. While 9x (95, 98, and ME) is different than NT (NT, 2000, and XP), they share DirectX, which I believe Starcraft uses to communicate with your hardware, and as such should be intercompatible in most respects, and the latest patch resolves the rest. Further, there are some shortcut settings you can set up to run various programs to work "better" with XP. They aren't exactly all that good but sometimes they resolve issues. So yeah, go ahead and get it. Should work just fine.

[Diamond]

It works on Windows 2000.

Yes, I'm sad.

[LeFevre]

"What'da you want?"

"Power overwhelming!"

"Strange Zerg noises!"

I still play it every now and then, one of the best games made. I love the crap troops say when you click and click them :D

[Mongrel]

"What'da you want?"

"Power overwhelming!"

"Strange Zerg noises!"

I still play it every now and then, one of the best games made. I love the crap troops say when you click and click them :D
And who can forget the classic tactic "Zerg rush!!" kekeke ^_^

[gnome]

Any hope of a Starcraft 2?

[Dark Jaguar]

I think it's called "Warcraft 3".

[Mongrel]

You could try Dawn of War (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=video-games-uk&field-keywords=dawn%20of%20war/ref=xs_ap_l_xgl/202-8247176-5061466) gnome, different back story (set in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe), much nicer graphics but uses a virtually identical engine :)

[bignickel]

After I beat Simpsons:Road Rage, I'm loading up Starcraft again!

[neutrino_cannon]

Any hope of a Starcraft 2?


Supposedly the engine for warcraft 3 was originally intended for starcraft 2.

Of course, since warcraft 3 really wasn't that great, and at the time starcraft was still selling briskly, Blizzard (correctly, I think) decided that starcraft 2 could wait for a better engine.

Personally, I want to see something like homeworld 2 with ground underneath.

Starcraft:Ghost, a console shooter game from which very interesting screenshots were produced, has probably been canceled.

[rocketdodger]

Supposedly the engine for warcraft 3 was originally intended for starcraft 2.


When SC2 comes out it will be the biggest gaming event in history, I think. Even bigger than diablo II or HL2 I think.


Starcraft:Ghost, a console shooter game from which very interesting screenshots were produced, has probably been canceled.

This looked cool at first but it befell the same fate as duke nukem forever -- they didn't push it out fast enough and the engine became obsolete before the game was even finished.

[Almo]

Warcraft 3 isn't anything like Starcraft. It has a low unit limit, and is more tactical.

Warcraft 3 is brilliant, but in a different way from Starcraft. The two games feel entirely different, and not just because of engine differences. Warcraft never did allow armies as large as you could amass in Starcraft.