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

By: nigger

nigger — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:36:06 +0000

The conf file doesn’t show up in my folder, so the tutorial is a waste of time.

Save yourselves the trouble of having to fuck around and just torrent the battle net version of the game.

By: notzig

notzig — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:52:55 +0000

@Moi

You need to set the cd path to d:

cdpath=d:

in the war2.ini

I suggest getting the “AmpShell” GUI for Dosbox, it will create a .conf file you can edit to change things like full screen, IPX, cpu cycle speed…..

By: Moi

Moi — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:24:18 +0000

For those of you who do not have the CD and downloaded the game, like I did.
(I used to have the CD, but I have no idea where it is.)
Simply change the code from
mount d D:\ -t cdrom
to wherever your game is, for example:
mount d C:\WAR2 -t cdrom
in my case. This should solve that particular issue. Following the various instructions posted by you helpful folks, I have managed to come close.. so close it’s frustrating.
I successfully made the icon (FYI for DOSBox 0.74, you’re right, there is no .conf file or whatever, you just have to use “DOSBox 0.74 Options” which is the same thing with a different name as far as I can tell) and give the appropriate little image of the crossed sword and axe *wave of nostalgia*
HERE IS MY PROBLEM
however, when I run it all seems well until I click ’single player’ at which point it staunchly refuses to believe I have a CD in my computer.
Now, I don’t have a CD, but that shouldn’t be a problem, since I have in both the config file AND the WAR2.ini (which took me bloody ages to find, since I can’t see the .ini) to C:\DOSGAMES\WAR2\ rather than my CD drive, so it SHOULD work and I don’t see why it isn’t. *tears out hair* So yes. PLEASE ADVISE, OH WISE INTERNETS.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:16:37 +0000

I installed DOSBox like you said recently, but can’t find the dosbox.conf file you mentioned. I can get Warcraft II to run, just not in full screen or as easy with just a mouse click. Please help!

By: Olga

Olga — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:08:38 +0000

Hello Adam!!! Thank you a LOT!!!!

my favorite game!

>> to EMON > Hi! install it on you computer and than copy to the folder with the game to C:\DOSGAMES\ – than access it from the dosbox directly – you should write something like:
warcraft2\war2.exe

By: EMON

EMON — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:57:15 +0000

MY QUESTION IS THAT I HAV DOWNLOADED IT FRM INTERNET OKH I DONT HAVE THE CD SO HOW CAN I INSTALL IT PLZ URGENT HELP

By: kim

kim — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:43:20 +0000

I have installed the dosbox .74 and now my screen flashes and when I play warcraft the screen colapses and takes me back to my desktop. It does this about every 2 to 5 minutes. Please help.

Kim

By: MCLUND

MCLUND — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:15:14 +0000

Hey man All is working for warcraft 2 but the screen that pops up to play is so small how can I make game fulkl screen

By: Ricky Cobb

Ricky Cobb — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:32:23 +0000

@152

Edit the c:\dosgames\war2\dosbox.conf file and change the sensitivity setting from sensitivity=100 to sensitivity=300. Save then restart :)
That makes the mouse move farther with less distance.

Original comment
(Comment by David — 22 July 2009 @ 4:12 pm A second problem I have is during game play I must move the mouse a great distance to move the cursor. Any solution for this?)

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:58:37 +0000

Thanks alot man I had some bumps in the road here in there but the guide got me through and I can finally enjoy a game I havent been able to play in a decade and now I finally got it to a one click icon and its game time. great guide keep up the fine work

By: shane

shane — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:37:01 +0000

hey there. ur guide was amazing and it helped me re live wen i was young and used to play this with my dad all the time. i have it all set and it all works with the icon. but i cant play it without installing it every time. is there a way around me having to install it over and over again?

By: Leo

Leo — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:16:40 +0000

Thank you for the explanation Adam, my sister came at the house and she wanted to play a warcraft game like we used to back when we were kids. Took me a while to sort all the issues out but now it’s working!

Here are fixes for issues some of you guys may have encountered :

* If the game doesn’t recognize your cd, open the file WAR2.INI . There you should have (on first line for me) : cdpath=x:\ , with x being the letter you mounted your installation folder on; meaning if you wrote “mount d C:\DOSGAMES\WAR2\ -t cdrom” under the [autoexec] section in your dosbox.conf file, you should have cdpath=d:\ in your WAR2.INI file.

* For multiplayer, every player must edit his/her dosbox.conf file and have ipx=true under the [ipx] section (like David said on comment #185). If you’re hosting the game you have to type “ipxnet startserver” (without quotes) under the [autoexec] section in your dosbox.conf file, and if you’re joining you must type “ipxnet connect IP” (without quotes), IP being of course the IP of the host you’re connecting to. Keep in mind the one who has ipxnet startserver in his dosbox.conf is the one who must host the game.
This is the same than David’s explanation, except this way you only have to click on the shortcut made from Adam’s guide and you’re all set!

I wish you all have fun, and thanks again Adam!

By: AndyP

AndyP — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:25:16 +0000

@Thorsten
To fix the sound problem run the SETUP app in the installed WAR2 folder and then change all to Soundblaster 16 (as Adam mentioned above on install). Seems to work for me (On Vista and 7). To do this – open up Dosbox, and run the following lines:

mount c: C\DOSGAMES\WAR2\
C:
SETUP

If you are using Dosbox 0.74, it allows you to emulate a pentium processor. Thus you don’t need to alter the cycles…
Open up dosbox 0.74 options and edit cputype=pentium_slow.
This has sorted the in game keyboard and mouse scroll, which is now an acceptable level(and performance is still adequate).

If like me you downloaded a version of the game. To play the pre-existing version of the game simply follow Adam’s instructions as above but leave out the mounting of the D: and the install step. Simply copy the game to a folder – I used C:\DOSGAMES\WAR2\

In the Dosbox 0.74 Options add the line:
mount c C:\DOSGAMES\WAR2\

Then before copying the icon – run the sound fix (mentioned at the top)

Then complete steps at the top.
Should work – any probs, give me a query

Thanks Adam – YOU ROCK DUDE

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:00:21 +0000

Thank you Adam! Took me back 15 year. Only the sound on Vista is distorted unless I disable “CD Audio”. Anyone else got this?

By: David

David — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:44:26 +0000

the files i mentioned above are the cd files

By: David

David — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:40:55 +0000

if you have warcraft II only in Hard disk, do this:

*** copy all the warcraft II files to an folder

*** mount this folder in DosBox as a cdrom (Just type: mount d c:\dosgames\war2 -t cdrom)

*** play the game

Have fun! (Sorry for the bad english, that´s not my native language)

By: David

David — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:36:34 +0000

It´s very easy to configure your netware server/client with DosBox:

*** in dosbox.conf, set the ipx attribute to ‘true’

*** to start your server, type in DosBox: ipxnet startserver

*** to connect in a server, type: ipxnet connect [host-IP] (you have to type the IP, not the IPX)

*** with a client, connect in a server with the instructions above

*** with the server, create a warcraft II multiplayer game.

*** with the client, join to the game

Have fun! (Sorry for the bad english, that´s not my native language)

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By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:39:23 +0000

The icon it doesnt open War2 :( i cant get it to work :( is there another way to go into war2 without the setup again????
Please Help!

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:56:22 +0000

Willy B push alt + enter to go into full screen mode. Enjoy