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