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Original Starcraft Now Free

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the team-protoss dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:13AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:13AM (#496776)

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:31AM (#496781)

    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

      by TheRaven (270) on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:08PM (#496825) Journal
      I bought TA when it was new, but re-bought it on GOG a couple of years back for about £2, including the expansion packs that I never bought back in the day, because it was worth the £2 to not have to faff around with the CDs.
      --
      sudo mod me up

    • (Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:12PM

      by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:12PM (#496908)

      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

    by butthurt (6141) on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:45AM (#496803) Journal

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:19PM (#496834)

    it runs fine (1.16) on my Win7 x64 w/o DOSBOX...