System Tested:
HP Pavilion 5425 Laptop running Mandrake 9.1and wine v20030709
Things to do:
1) Download and install the latest version of wine (stable at time of
article: 20030709)
2) Configure a wine registry and prepare it for Window games and apps
3) Installing Starcraft
4) Playing Starcraft
Section 1
First things first, we need to
go to http://www.winehq.org and
download the latest stable source of wine and compile it. Compiling
wine is very a very easy task, but might take some time of your system
does not have the correct libraries. If this is the case, I would
recommmnd going to http://rpmfind.net
and try to find the latest version of wine for your distrobution.
To install wine from source
unzip the source into a local directory. Open up a terminal windows and
navigate into the directory. Once in the directory type
“./tools/wineinstall”. The script is pretty self contained. I would
recommend doing something for the next few minutes. Building wine from
source can take anywhere from 5-20 minutes or more. Once it finsihed
compiling, it will ask for your root password and install wine into
your linux system. Once thats done continue onto section 2.
Section 2
Wine unfortunately does not make
a viable fake windows system. In order to do this I would recommend
downloading winetools (v1.22 in this case) from http://franksworld.net/wine/winetools
. Unzip the program and in the terminal type “sh install.sh”. Once the
program is running. Select “Create Fake Windows Drive”. Enter the
mount point and device name of the CD-Rom drive and click create. Now
exit the winetools.
Now in the ./wine/users.conf add
the following lines to the end of the file:
[Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell
Folders]
"Programs" = "C:\\WINDOWS\\Start Menu\\Programs"
This will prevent the annoying
problem of a “start menu error” occuring The next tweak is just as
easy, but if you do not do this you will not be able ot use the keyboard.
Full screen tweak:
If you are going to play Starcraft full screen, open up the
/.wine/config and on line 130 make sure “DXGrab” = “Y” , without it
your keyboard will not work.
Windowed Tweak:
If you are going to play Starcraft in a window you need to edit your
/.wine/config. On line 121, remove the semi-colon from in front of
"Desktop" = "640x480" and on line 130 make sure "DXGrab" = "N", if you
dont do this your keyboard will not work (strange yes.. but I didnt
write wine).
If there are other problems
check out http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=72&versionId=51
your problem might be answered here.
Section 3
Now that we have done all the
“hard” stuff and have gotten wine ready for Starcraft, everything will
be a sinch. To install Starcraft, from the terminal go to your CD-Rom
drive (in my case /mnt/cdrom) and type “wine install.exe”. If
everything was done right, you should see the Starcraft installer window
pop up. Do what it says, and congrats, you have installed Starcraft
onto your linux system.
Section 4
Now the whole reason for the
HowTo... to play the freaking game. Very simple. Navigate in the
terminal to the directory of Starcraft (for me
/home/shadow/.wine/c/Progam Files/StarCraft and type “wine
Starcraft.exe”. The game should load. Enjoy
Version 1.1 Changes:
- More wine config tweeks
*Disclaimer: I do not take
responsibility for any lost or damaged media or properties.
Copyright © 2003 Daniel
Cheatham aka ShadowFox
