Comments on: Warcraft II on Windows XP, A step-by-step guide

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:39:14 +0000

Hi, people!

Has anyone found a way to play the cd music without the CD?
I mean, copying the audio tracks to the HD and modifying the
installation somehow…

Cheers,
Eduardo.

By: AwarmPinion

AwarmPinion — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:00:07 +0000

Hi, I am new to this But have, after 3 installations, finally got warcraft 2 to work.

Now I would really like to play the map editor.
I am using windows xp sp3
I have the cdrom auto mount. The get into the c: drive and into War2 (Normally I would type war2 here to start game)
If I type in War2edit I get “This program requires microsoft windows”
War2ed95 I get “This program won’t run in dos mode”

Any help would Be awesome.

I would like to thank you for the Blog.
I have been trying to get this game to work for Years.
So thanks in Advance.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:24:58 +0000

I don’t know exactly what the problem is, but I made a really awesome scenario that I want to run but don’t know how. I am told that on the menu, you can click single player game, then custom scenario, but there is no custom scenario button for me and I dont see any other way to browse for or open a pud file. have any advice or solutions? I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
-Matt

By: MamaTLF

MamaTLF — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:10:02 +0000

Can someone tell me how can i fix ”Waiting for Response” problem with connecting over LAN to my friends host?

By: katetsu

katetsu — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:09:26 +0000

I have the problem of not being able to go to fullscreen mode.
I am using parallels desktop on mac and i have a win xp running as a virtual machine.
can u help me and say how can i enter full screen?
alt enter doesnt seem to work

By: Pragmatic Jim

Pragmatic Jim — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:31:43 +0000

I too am having trouble locating the custom puds that I create or download, while using dosbox.
If I chose the custom game option, I am only given the built in custom games.
I have come up with a work around.
1) start the game directly from the WAR 2 directory, (not using dosbox)
2) select one of the custom games
3) start the game
4) save it.
5) end game
6) start game using dosbox
7) load the saved game and continue from there, with smooth scrolling and sound.
It would be nice to be able to skip a few steps.

By: Dragos

Dragos — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:39:47 +0000

i have downloaded war 2 already installed an i did what you said but it doesn’t work…when i want to ply it appears a black screen and then it comes back to windows…what should i do?

By: Ithryn

Ithryn — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:10:09 +0000

If you’re using Windows 7, the “dosbox-0.74.conf” file will be in C:\User\\AppData\Local

By: Tommy11

Tommy11 — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:49:14 +0000

I have everything working smoothly, i even installed the ipx protocol on my vista computer.
I’ve managed to create a game on the server and join a game on the client they are communicating finally, however, i can’t start the game, the Start Game button is greyed out, whats happening how do i fix it?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:03:11 +0000

Lol. When I changed windows XP for windows 7, I thought i would never be able to play warcraft 2 anymore. Then, i found that website who explained how to make warcraft 2 compatible. It took 3-4 hours before I could finally make it work but I got it and its all that matter. Thanks a lot for the tricks and solutions. I’m gonna play warcraft 2 and have a good laugh at the old times, when i was playing as a kid.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:21:04 +0000

Adam,
I recently purchased WarCraft II Tides of Darkness (TOD) and the expansion set. I loaded DOSBOX as the seller from ebay that I bought it from, among other sellers as well, metioned I would need it to run the game on a newer system like mine, which is Windows XP. So, I (not really knowledgeable with computer hardware or software) installed Tides of Darkness. Once I got playing the game, after about 3-4 scenarios, the screen (while in live game mode) would go black and return to desktop. This happened several times but I was always able to load game back on and continue play. It has reached a point now where I can’t progress or finish from the current scenario. I went ahead and installed the expansion set thinking the problem was specific to the TOD and hoping not the expansion set. I was wrong. It happened a few times and now several times to the point where I can’t progress from the current scenario I’m currently playing. I would really appreciate your help and no I haven’t tried installing the games exactly how you lay out above.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:47:30 +0000

I do everything that the instructions say, but when I click on the icon it opens just DOSBox and not the game. And, when I type the command in to start it, it doesn’t start. I can easily start the game from the beginning without making an icon, but I can’t start the game a second time without reinstalling DOSBox and starting from the beginning. Please help!

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:05:56 +0000

That is absolutely horrible…….. I tried to play it on my other computer and it installed immediately
but every time i click play warcraft 2 the screen goes black like its about to start and then it goes back to the option to play warcraft 2.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:11:18 +0000

Sounds like your CD has a scratch on it.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:42 +0000

So i did every step you told me to do and after i click install it gets to 17% and sais the following: One of the installed files did not copy correctly. The checksum was not what it should be. You may have a bad input file. Please tell me where i go from here i really want to play this game i just found it today ive lost it for the longest time.

By: Page

Page — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:27:33 +0000

everything worked just like you said!! thanks so much!!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:41:50 +0000

Unfortunatly it still didn’t work because of the second step where you put the text in the “target box” not sure what you mean by that. Tried where you rename the file, tried in DOSBOX and couldnt find a Target area in the conf file. Please help with this.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:25:19 +0000

Ok anyone useing XP and cant find the Conf file, Go to your start menu go to the dosbox on the menu and then on that menu click the options(it will look like a file) then DOSBOX 0.74 options, that will open the conf file you need :)

So im going to go continue the instructions thanks everyone,
I found this tip on http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Dosbox.conf

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:08:55 +0000

Hey, Adam Thank you so much for your tutorial! I’ve spent the last hour reading all of the posts trying to figure out this issue. Ive not had to put in commands in MSDOS type stuff since i worked on a Commodor 64 when i was 10 so bear with me here.

Ok yesterday i followed the instructions, downloaded dosbox(i downloaded version.74) and then when i got to the point of the icon, i could not find the .conf file, there appears not to be one. So how would i go about accessing the game? i do have a cd, what kind of commands can i use? if i just have the commands i dont mind not having an icon.

Thanks in advance if anyone would like to help me out.
Jen

By: Nate509

Nate509 — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:11:01 +0000

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