The last game I played is Starcraft. That was so long time ago since my desktop was an old Windows ME. It seems Wine is capable to run this game. So I tried it on Ubuntu Edgy.

First of all, I found a good howto. What we need the most is Wine. The up-to-date wine is available in below repositories.

deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main

Then follow below steps.

1. Install Wine

   sudo apt-get install wine
   

2. Setup drives in Wine using winecfg

   winecfg
   

   Make sure that type of /media/cdrom is CD-ROM.

3. Adjust audio

   winecfg
   

   You should switch to ALSA or ESD.

4. Install Starcraft and Brood War as usuall one by one

   wine /media/cdrom/install.exe
   

5. Patch to version 1.13f or later

   wget http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/broodwar/patches/PC/BW-113f.exe
   wine BW-113f.exe
   

6. Add starcraft.exe in Applications tab of `winecfg*

   winecfg
   

7. Enable Emulate a virtual desktop. At this step, I was unable to follow the step in above howto. What I can do is to enable this feature in default settings for all applications.

   winecfg
   

   In Applications tab, select Default settings and check the box Emulate a virtual desktop in Graphics tab. If possible, you should select the new application created in previous step.

8. Now you may run it.

   wine starcraft.exe
   

If you notice about 100% in CPU utilization, don't worry. It's just what expects to happen.

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