Starcraft 1 help

[VirusType2]

My nephew wanted to play Starcraft with his uncle.

I had a Starcraft Battlechest set that I had never used so I plan to give it to him.

On the back it says Windows 95, 98, NT. I think he's using XP or Vista. Anyone know if this will this be able to install or not?

 

[Viperidae]

Starcraft works on Vista/7. However, last time I checked (February) you had to kill explorer.exe/aero to get the full colours to work.

 

[Acepilotf14]

It'll work fine on any OS. The game was just made back when those didn't exist.

As well, if he has a big screen(Starcraft will DIE on widescreens), this is a good hack.

http://www.starcraftresolutionhack.de.vu/

It'll make Starcraft 1 high-resolution for bigger screens than they had ten years ago.

 

[StarBob]

Shouldn't be using system hog Aero at all. Terrible thing.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Shouldn't be using system hog Aero at all. Terrible thing.

but it's so pretty

 

[VirusType2]

Starcraft works on Vista/7. However, last time I checked (February) you had to kill explorer.exe/aero to get the full colours to work.

OK, disable Windows Aero; but does he have to open Taskman and kill explorer.exe to play it, really?

It'll work fine on any OS. The game was just made back when those didn't exist.

As well, if he has a big screen(Starcraft will DIE on widescreens), this is a good hack.

http://www.starcraftresolutionhack.de.vu/

It'll make Starcraft 1 high-resolution for bigger screens than they had ten years ago.

He has a laptop; I guess it's widescreen aspect. What will happen without the hack? Stretching or letterboxing? Really, I just want to keep this as simple as possible, but I will write this down for him and let him give it a shot if he feels comfortable.

Shouldn't be using system hog Aero at all. Terrible thing.

If you have enough resources (a better computer), it's pretty much irrelevant as far as I can tell. I don't know; what can you tell me otherwise?


Thanks for the help so far, everyone.

 

[Acepilotf14]

He has a laptop; I guess it's widescreen aspect. What will happen without the hack? Stretching or letterboxing? Really, I just want to keep this as simple as possible, but I will write this down for him and let him give it a shot if he feels comfortable.

The maximum resolution is 1024x768 or something. Maybe smaller, I forget. The laptop might be fine without it. It gets really pixelated as it stretches out.

 

[Quixoticism]

ICCup has a special launcher for StarCraft that will fix the Windows 7 issues. You will need to run the game in windowed mode but there are some options like double size and lock mouse to the window which make it easier to play in a window.
http://www.iccup.com/files/view/Anti-Hack_Launcher_v1.4_build_88.html

 

[VirusType2]

Worked out great for him, thanks again for the help

 

[Warped]

I just played it about 5 days ago and it was shrunk to one side of the screen, like the upper left corner. I have Win Vista and run at 1920x1080 but it used to work full screen a few months ago, so maybe I'll just do windowed mode

 

[CyberPitz]

ICCup has a special launcher for StarCraft that will fix the Windows 7 issues. You will need to run the game in windowed mode but there are some options like double size and lock mouse to the window which make it easier to play in a window.
http://www.iccup.com/files/view/Anti-Hack_Launcher_v1.4_build_88.html

The first thing I thought was this thing right here. I was going to cry if it wasn't already posted, haha.

 

[Quixoticism]

You know I wouldn't let you down Pitz.

 

[YROC]

I play on widescreen and it just strectches to the whole screen. Makes everything big and pixely though.