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StarCraft I Goes Free with Today's New Patch (1.18)
- gus_massa 10y agoI can't find where it says that SC1 goes free.
- savethefuture 10y agoYou must be blind "StarCraft will be free with this patch as well. We'll add a link here when the patch is live. "
- gus_massa 10y agoOk. I found that sentence. Sorry for the noise.
- brunoluiz 10y agoThe only issue: it was not adapted to run either on high-res screens (retina display) or on wide screens
- mrkurt 10y agoNot yet: https://starcraft.com/en-us/ https://starcraft.com/en-us/
- brunoluiz 10y agoCheck the forum post... Probably they will update the main website soon. I just installed the Mac version (sadly, it doesn't work well with my display)
- 0x0 10y agoInterestingly, when the game launches or exits on my mac, i can see my desktop flash briefly as it changes into and out of what looks like ultra-high-res mode, a kind of 1:1 pixel retina screen mode. I wonder if the game is rendering the oldschool resolution but then nearest-neighbor-scaling it to ultra high res for no good reason?
- Shad0w59 10y agoThe new remastered version to be released in Summer is the same client as the normal version - I'm guessing 1.18 is actually here to test new engine for that release.
- duskwuff 10y agoThe Mac client runs at 1280x960 (double 640x480). The font in the menu looks like it's been upscaled or redrawn, but everything else is just pixel-doubled.
- gbrunacci 10y agoMy personally most played RTS. Is actually amazing that this game is still being patched. And also used in AI classes. EDIT: https://youtu.be/L7XiE_V0PZ8 https://youtu.be/L7XiE_V0PZ8
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- dyu- 10y agoHopefully they'll add linux support with that new opengl backend they have
- broodbucket 10y agoPretty unlikely given they've never released a game for Linux before, despite having OpenGL support and internal builds.
- flukus 10y agoAnyone know how well it runs on wine?
- nyolfen 10y agoit works exceptionally well with wine
- podiki 10y ago#3 [1] on the Top-10 Platinum list on WineHQ [2]. Platinum being "applications which install and run flawlessly on an out-of-the-box Wine installation." https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=149 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI... https://appdb.winehq.org/ https://appdb.winehq.org/
- terrywang 10y agoIt was one of those very first batch of games that Wine used to promote itself ;-) Single player mode should be perfectly fine. Multiplayer mode which requires network may require some manual work (e.g. IPX and battle.net).
- thomastjeffery 10y agoIt has been the other way around for a while (8 years, apparently). Since UDP was added as a network option, there has been no need to use IPX. The very oldschool drawing methods were the biggest issue with wine. I had it working ~6 years ago, but it wasn't exactly easy. PlayOnLinux helps a lot, though.
- douche 10y agoAnyone know if this is just the base game, or if it includes Brood War as well? It'd be very cool if they open-sourced it, a la older IdTech games.
- decebalus1 10y agoI downloaded a previous version 0.8something (I'm not at home to verify) and it did include Brood War.
- Audiophilip 10y agoIt includes Brood War, too.
- ttflee 10y agoIs it native or wined on macOS?
- synicalx 10y agoIIRC it was always native on macOS, I'm assume this latest patch is no different
- codeinterview 10y agoDownloading on MacBook right now!
- ksmsjm 10y agoWeird there is still a little lag on multiplayer side. Just did a quick game on MacOs vers and first thing i saw was a lot of "Username set latency to Extra High"
- jlebrech 10y agowould this work on it? http://stargus.stratagus.com/ http://stargus.stratagus.com/
- nailer 10y agoOld people who remember Freecraft: Freecraft became Stratagus, the StarCraft specific bits are Stargus: http://stratagus.com/games.shtml http://stratagus.com/games.shtml No reason why it shoudn't. And native Linux is way better than wine.