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+title = "Warcraft 3 on MAC with wineskin"
+date = 2013-08-10
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+A few days ago, I bought Warcraft III. I never finished it before, since I
+didn't own the game, and lately I had this inner urge to play a game on the
+Warcraft series. Since going back to World of Warcraft isn't an option, I
+decided to rollback to the part of the Warcraft lore that is unknown to me.
+
+Sadly after buying the game I discovered that they dropped support for the
+game when Apple did the conversion of their hardware from powerpc to intel.
+There was no way of running the mac version of the game on newer hardware, and
+I even contacted Blizzard support about the matter, but the answer was the one
+I feared: I had to use wine. This reminded me of the old days when I was a
+linux user and this was needed in order to play anything on linux.
+
+![](wineskin.png)
+
+## Installing the needed software
+
+First of all, you will need to download
+[Wineskin](http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-
+index.php?page=Wineskin%2C+Play+your+favorite+Windows+games+on+Mac+OS+X+without+needing+Microsoft+Windows),
+as we're going to use this to "emulate" our windows environment. Also,
+download the windows warcraft downloaders from your battle.net account.
+
+Execute it and download the last engine (clicking on the plus symbol) and also
+update the wrapper.
+
+You should see your wineskin window similar to the one on the left.
+
+Now you need to create a clean wrapper for your Warcraft III installation.
+
+## Creating the wrapper
+
+Just click on the "Create New Blank Wrapper" button and give it a name. I will
+go with "Warcraft III.app". It will ask you to install some mono/gecko
+libraries needed for the wrapper. Just go with it and wait until all the
+process finishes.
+
+You will be prompted if you want to open the containing folder, do it since
+now we need to configure our wrapper.
+
+Now, right click the app you created and select "Show package contents".
+
+Execute Wineskin.app, and select "Install software", on the next panel select
+"Select setup executable" and go to the path of your warcraft 3 downloader,
+that will prompt the installation menu when it finishes.
+
+Install your warcraft as you would in a windows machine, and when you exit the
+installer wineskin will ask for the main executable file, select "Warcraft
+III.exe". After that, repeat the process with the Frozen Throne executable.
+
+## Configuration
+
+We need to tweak some things before we can play, here's what I did:
+
+  * Go to set screen options and set windowed. Since I have a 16:9 screen and the game runs at 4:3, everything is streched. Maybe there's a 16:9 patch around the net.
+  * I customized the icon with [this one](http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/3xhumed/mega-games-pack-36/256/Warcraft-3-Reign-of-Chaos-5-icon.png). You need to convert it to ICNS for using it with wineskin (you can use [this online tool](http://iconverticons.com/online/)). Copy it into the package and select on the advanced options in the wineskin executable.
+  * If you want to play with the frozen throne expansion, change the Windows EXE on the advanced settings panel to "Frozen Throne.exe".
+  * Since wine can't play the cinematics, you can safely remove/rename the movies folder under the warcraft installation folder. (Default: `drive_c/Program Files/Warcraft III`)
+  * Delete the game installers if you stored them into the wineskin package to keep the .app file size to a minimum.
+
+## Enjoy!
+
+![](game.png)
+
+It's done! Store the Warcraft III.app somewhere if you don't want to repeat
+the process if you delete the game.
+
+### Updates:
+
+  * Using the -opengl EXE flag will get you a smoother framerate. (thanks to **Sylvain Prevost** in the comments)
+  * Suggested engine: WS9Wine1.7.2. (by **Sylvain Prevost** in the comments)