Greetings Commanders, Cerebrates, and Executors,
We're proud to announce that StarCraft will be patched for the first time in over 8 years today. The patch will go live at 2:00 PM PDT.
When patching, please use the 'Run as Admin' option; it is required during your first client run to migrate saves and avoid issues from Windows system admin changes.
StarCraft will be free with this patch as well. We'll add a link here when the patch is live.
Installers
Win:
https://battle.net/download/getInstallerForGame?os=WIN&version=LIVE&gameProgram=STARCRAFT
Mac:
https://battle.net/download/getInstallerForGame?os=MAC&version=LIVE&gameProgram=STARCRAFT
Which are you, Human, Protoss, or Zerg?
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(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:32AM (8 children)
A battle.net account is required in order to download it, as the links above point to a download tool for the game.
If anyone has an offline install for it, please share it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:48AM
it hasn't hit the pirate bay yet but the original version is there. [thepiratebay.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:09AM
At least EA released Command & Conquer as Original ISOs so you could play the game as it was or patch up as preferred.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:09AM
But that would be stealing!
(Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:10PM (4 children)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:06PM (2 children)
The story on Slashdot:
https://games.slashdot.org/story/17/04/18/2243253/starcraft-is-now-free-nearly-20-years-after-its-release [slashdot.org]
...links to this:
https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20674424 [starcraft.com]
...which currently has the same links for downloading. Seeing "4 hours ago" written there, I wondered whether the page had been changed since you saw it. However an archived copy from yesterday also says "4 hours ago" and has the same download links.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170419231535/https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20674424 [archive.org]
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday April 21 2017, @02:20PM (1 child)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday April 21 2017, @09:17PM
The links in the summary here (even the Macintosh one) are to Battle.net-Setup.exe. I tried to guess the URL for the Windows installer from what you said; neither of these worked (404 error).
https://us.battle.net/download/getInstaller?os=win&installer=Starcraft-Setup.exe [battle.net]
https://us.battle.net/download/getInstaller?os=win&installer=Starcraft-Setup.zip [battle.net]
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday April 21 2017, @11:50PM
You're right. The link text in the summary shows this:
Win:
https://battle.net/download/getInstallerForGame?os=WIN&version=LIVE&gameProgram=STARCRAFT
Mac:
https://battle.net/download/getInstallerForGame?os=MAC&version=LIVE&gameProgram=STARCRAFT
but what it actually links to is corrupted because the ampersands have been removed:
https://battle.net/download/getInstallerForGame?os=WINversion=LIVEgameProgram=STARCRAFT
https://battle.net/download/getInstallerForGame?os=MACversion=LIVEgameProgram=STARCRAFT
By following the links displayed as the link text, rather than the corrupted ones that are missing their ampersands, the Starcraft-Setup.exe and Starcraft-Setup.zip files may be downloaded.
When I tried posting this with the URLs enclosed in "<code>...</code>" my post didn't render correctly in the preview. One of the URLs became a clickable hyperlink, and there was some gibberish about "url2html".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:13AM (5 children)
Nice if your still playing star craft after errr 20 yeas?
and have the original game that you installed in your dos box still installed in your windows 7 box
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:31AM (2 children)
Installed space empires 4 last night. Other than the resolution fixed at 1024 768 it runs just fine on win 10. Never played starcraft, but might have to find the TA disks.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:08PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:12PM
im more of a Space Empires III guy, but I bet we'd both play Space Empires V, if they'd make it.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:45AM
You'll need the patch if you want to play against someone who has the new version:
[...] the new patch will include two important updates: the ability to connect to and play against owners of the upcoming remastered version, and the change to a wholly free product.
-- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/starcraft-remaster-unveiled-and-original-sd-version-becomes-free-as-in-beer/ [arstechnica.com]
There was an earlier story about this.
/article.pl?sid=17/03/26/2149202 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:19PM
it runs fine (1.16) on my Win7 x64 w/o DOSBOX...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:28AM (3 children)
Gimme something to shoot.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:39AM
Excellent... [youtube.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday April 20 2017, @12:45PM
En taro Adun!
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:46PM
Always random. Now you don't know what is coming for you!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:44AM
"Which are you, Human, Protoss, or Zerg?"
Ich bin ein nerd!!!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:54AM (4 children)
How many weeks before this is ported to Unix? ;)
Using OpenGL of course.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:04AM (3 children)
Hell, just release the source code... we can port it ourselves AND keep it running on every os we want, as long as we want. We could even add it to our repos for easy install.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday April 20 2017, @05:44PM (2 children)
Do we need the free-as-in-beer discussion again?
They want lots of buzz and players so they can sell the HD one (and sequels). They didn't suddenly turn over very valuable IP...
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday April 20 2017, @06:53PM (1 child)
ID software released source-code for the engine while retaining copyright on the in-game assets for several games.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @07:54PM
Same with FreeSpace 2, you can get it over at hard-light.net
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @12:00PM
Ahh, the good, old Starchcraft!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Taibhsear on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:12PM
For anyone else that was confused by the wording, the SD version is getting a patch and it allows you to play the SD version for free and play against people with the remastered HD version on battlenet. The remastered HD version you have to pay for. I was wondering why Blizzard would even bother redoing the game or making it free but it makes sense now. It's sort of like retroactive DLC/microtransaction to get shinier graphics for something you probably already own.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday April 21 2017, @05:53AM
Which are you, Human, Protoss, or Zerg?
I am, um, what are you talking about? Some of us have real lives, so we do not get all your snarky references to
World of Warcraft. Maybe I am that faction you never, ever, anticipated, the one that will be your doom, and the Doom of Blizzard (wow, that sounds like a great name for a, wait for it!!! Calling Dave Barry, yes, Dave, OK, we'll go with it: rock band!!!) , the non-on-line-gamer. I let you go, now. Your existence means nothing, except for those who need to be distracted from the meaninglessness of their lives. You are Wraith. Even free, is not free enough. I give you, "Windows 10"!!! Arrrrrghhhhhuuuuh! Oh, the pain!!!!!! There has been a major disruption in the money train continuum! As if many stockholders cried out, and were silenced, because they were stockholders and not real people who were actually doing anything productive, and they were making money of of OCD people doing nothing productive, so the whole thing comes full circle, and we are left, with nothing. This whole house of cards will collapse, advertising or no. Trust me, or bet against me. Gamer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @01:32PM
Not free as in freedom...