Starcraft on the Pandora

[Amitk]

hey guys, apologies if the question has been asked before. Now that the pandora has 256MB of ram, would starcraft be playable through DOSbox if a decent port is made?
Thanks

 

[dj51d]

Starcraft is a Windows program, so dosbox won't be able to run it.

 

[Amitk]

thanks for the reply
is there any other way to play it??

 

[mkinzler]

You may implement it yourself, ask the developer to port it or hope they will publish the source code

 

[closetwam]

http://www.boswars.org/screenshots.shtml
This is as close as we'll get to Starcraft for now. Assuming someone ports Bos Wars to ARM.

 

[BorderReiver]

Not heard of http://stargus.sourceforge.net/ then?

I don't think an ARM Port of that'll prove difficult.

 

[htl2001]

you may attempt to run it in a virtual machine but that'd be really slow... I know for a fact that diablo 2 had 2D rendering modes so it could run in a typical VM, dunno what starcraft uses though...

 

[bakawhite]

Starcraft was all 2d I think. That was before i cared.

 

[fischju]

There is also an N64 port of Starcraft. Given some fancy control emulation, THAT is the closest we could get. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa3hJtLU ... re=related

 

[gruso]

Adventus has confirmed that he'll be bringing Stratagus to Pandora. Basically, that will give us Wargus (Warcraft II) and Stargus (Starcraft). He ported Wargus to GP2X recently, and did a bang up job.

So, just sit back and wait! And maybe Paypal a few bucks to him.

 

[htl2001]

I'm having trouble with the stargus website... how does it look compared to regular starcraft? is there any way to have network play?

 

[Amitk]

His website appears to be dead?
any other way to contact the developer?
Also, I checked youtube for any gameplay videos, didnt find any
would someone link me to a few.
Thanks

 

[gruso]

Try here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/stargus/

There's a single screenshot, and a download link. If you have your own copy of Starcraft, you can download Stargus and give it a run.

I don't know if work is continuing on it, but even if we got on Pandora in its existing state, I'd be pretty excited!

 

[mkdx]

'Haven't heard of Stargus before. Looks very nice.

Additional screenshots:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=547989&page=16

Edit: It turns out that this is not Stargus. I found the pictures via google image search. Regardless, Stargus should look identical to Starcraft as it seems to use the same artwork.

 

[pferguso]

This is slightly off topic, but if I recall, the original Command and Conquer started out in DOS, before the win95 version (now freeware) was released. I'm not sure DosBox can handle it though. I know I had a Pentium 66mhz at the time I played it. Oh well, Here's hoping.

 

[Patrick R Ludvigsen]

command and conquer has a psx port (not the exact same thing but i'll enjoy it)