Warcraft

[Ernest]

Would it be at all possible to have wacrcraft 1 or 2 on the gp, wot i mean is, is it possible for some1 to port it?????

 

[Efompor]

ports require source code

 

[Sponge BoB]

freecraft is open source i think. donno if it would be possible or not.

 

[Sonic-NKT]

there was a great opensource clone of Warcraft 2.. which could be used with the official files... but it was closed down by blizzard... SHAME ON YOU!!!!
and now ... dont know if something thatr great will come again

 

[Sponge BoB]

yeah that was free craft, didnt know blizzard closed it, oh well.

 

[Ernest]

harsh beans

 

[DemonStar55]

yea they closed it but I thik thier trying to revieve it I was looking for t because I want it ported too

 

[falken80]

ok for freecraft

but see that : Stratagus !
http://www.nongnu.org/stratagus/index.html

many stragegy game for gp in the future ? ^^

 

[damaki]

Alas, Stratagus is currently a stagnant project.

 

[ThndrShk2k]

stratagus is freecrafts sucsessor

 

[Efompor]

Wargus is a Warcraft2 Mod that allows you to play Warcraft2 with the Stratagus engine, as opposed to play it with the original Warcraft2 one. So unless you have a legal copy of Warcraft2 (original DOS Version required, won't work with the battle.net edition) Wargus will be pretty useless to you, since it doesn't come with any graphics or sounds itself.

So why play Warcraft2 with the Stratagus engine instead of the original Warcraft2 one? There are numerous reasons, first it allows you to play Warcraft2 under GNU/Linux and other operating systems not supported by the original Warcraft2 engine, secondly it allows you to play over the internet, which the original Warcraft2 engine didn't allow you to. Last not least the Stratagus engine allows you to tweak numerous parameters so you can play around with different unit strength and such.

Since Wargus uses a different engine, not all things will work 100% the same as they did in the original Warcraft2, if you want the original unchanged Warcraft2 experience, you will still have to use the original Warcraft2.
Disclaimer

Wargus is not an official Blizzard product, its a Warcraft2 modification, by Warcraft2 fans for Warcraft2 fans. You need a copy of the original Warcraft2 DOS version to make use of Wargus, it will not work with the Battle.net Edition. Warcraft is a registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment

hmm it sounds doable. Stratagus is open source. all we'd need to do is see if we could get it to work well on the gp32 And I think all of wc2 is 41mb or something like that. I could be wrong though