Warcraft II on Your Pocket PC

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pocketgamer.org/showthread.php?threadid=4764' target='_blank'>http://www.pocketgamer.org/showthre...p?threadid=4764</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Wargus is a Warcraft II Mod that allows you to play Warcraft II with the Stratagus engine, as opposed to play it with the original Warcraft II one. The end result is that Warcraft II is now running on VGA and QVGA devices. While it'll start happily on a QVGA Pocket PC, you need to do the following to get it up and running in VGA mode..."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/warcraft2-ppc.jpg" /><br /><br />The details are a little fuzzy due to language barrier issues, but this is quite exciting! I have fond memories of spending many, MANY hours playing Warcraft 2, and it would be amazing to get this on my Pocket PC. Can someone with German language skills explain what we need to do and post the instructions in this thread? As a side note, I've been emptying out my office for a big eBay/garage sale, and among the only old games I kept were Blizzard games such as Warcraft, Warcraft 2, Diablo, etc. So I'm ready to rock - someone just show me how. :rock on dude!:

[Jerry Raia]

I really want to see this working on my 4705. :clap:

[Eastwood]

According to pocketgaming.de, you just have to download this file (http://soneric.kiev.ua/wargus.rar), copy it to your memory card and extract it. You'll also need 19 MB of free RAM.

[Dopeman]

and to solve the VGA error you need Pocket CMD (http://www.hpc.ru/soft/download.phtml?id=8396) and Pocket Console (http://www.hpc.ru/soft/software.phtml?id=8395)
then select the Folder wit DOS commands and run file with the following parameter:

stratagus640 -F

Original
http://pocketgaming.de/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=232

[KTamas]

I have tried it, the exe file simply does not starts. (I have the original WC2 files and about 26 mb free ram...) Maybe the qvga does not works on wm2003se?...

[BUMP THAT]

@Dopeman Could you plese elaborate on your directions. Its a little vague to me, I need more info, cuz knowing me, I screw it upp on my own Ideas. :P

[orol]

OMFG.. I want this! :twisted:

it's over a year ago I sold my very last PDA (which happen to be sony clie UX50 => one of the best PDA ever :) and then I didn't want any new one since all the things I did with PDA was easy substituted by my smartphone .. but now I'm getting really jelaous!! :twisted:

warcraft I &amp; II were one of my favourites games (with tetris, diablo, homam 3, dune 2, C&amp;C: red alert, transport tycoon deluxe are the top ones :) and seeing this, geee, I want it. ...

p.s. I already started searching on ebay some dell axim x50v :roll:

[sponge]

Wargus itself is a bit buggy, the PC version that is. They're not quite 100% feature complete too. However, this is still great for the project, and for PocketPCs.

Starcraft is also possible via Stratagus, too.

[FrozenIpaq]

Yeah!! I got it to work on my 2215. All i did was download the file that Eastwood posted, and the one that is on the site and i converted it to a zip file for faster transfer. I then transfered it to my PPC, extracted it and clicked on the Stragus icon and it worked. I would not suggest playing this unless you have a good VGA pocket pc, and i do not know the fix for it. The view is horrible, very small on QVGA, no sound, and very hard to use a game that uses a mouse with a stylus.

[dean_shan]

How very cool, I'm still waiting for an offical WarCraft II version to come out. I liked how AOE turned out and hope that Blizzard would do the same.

[LightMan]

Wow, this is impressive ... running quite smooth on my Loox 720 :D

[Stephen Beesley]

Wow, this is impressive ... running quite smooth on my Loox 720 :D

Also running fine on my Toshiba e755 - pity about the lack of sound.

Now all I need is the Axim x50v I just ordered to arrive....

[kozak]

Can someone post exact instructions on how to do this? I'd love to get it to work on my X50v. Anyone feeling helpfull?

[Wiggster]

Ho-lee crap. I was just telling my girlfriend yesterday that she needs to play the original Warcrafts (we're both addicted to World of Warcraft right now), and now there's a PDA version? Sweet, I can lend her my PDA so she can play at work on her break.

Assuming I can get it to work :mrgreen:

[Stephen Beesley]

Can someone post exact instructions on how to do this? I'd love to get it to work on my X50v. Anyone feeling helpfull?

Well I do not know if this will be any help given that the X50v is vga while my e755 is QVGA, but all I did was extract the RAR file into a folder on my CF card and then tap on the file called "stratagus.exe" and I was away. I presume the file "stratagus640.exe" is the one you are after. I hope that works because my x50v should be here by the end of the week...

So far the game seems to play okay (again this is on my e755) without any crashes. If only I could remember the commands etc. The two flaws I have found so far is the lack of sound (really miss that) and that there is no keyboard pop up when, for example you try to name a save game. Maybe I am just missing something there...

[kozak]

I only have the battle.net version of Warcraft, how do I get my hands on a DOS version???

[ADBrown]

You could try eBay, but they seem semi-rare.

[kozak]

It runs AMAZING on my X50v. VGA resolution, i can save and all the other crap, just no sound. BEAUTIFUL!

[Ommadawn]

Ooohhhh..... it's slow, but playable on my 1930!!!! WC2 on my ipaq, at last!!!! woohoo!!! :mrgreen:

[Stephen Beesley]

It runs AMAZING on my X50v. VGA resolution, i can save and all the other crap, just no sound. BEAUTIFUL!

How do you save? I cannot get a sip panel to come up and allow me to input a save name.

[LightMan]

How do you save? I cannot get a sip panel to come up and allow me to input a save name.

If you tap in the lower left corner, you see the SIP panel flickering and if you tap the place where the keyboard should be, it will recognize the tap and insert the letter/number you tapped. It doesn't matter which it is since you can save a game with just 1 char :) Works for me.

[Stephen Beesley]

How do you save? I cannot get a sip panel to come up and allow me to input a save name.

If you tap in the lower left corner, you see the SIP panel flickering and if you tap the place where the keyboard should be, it will recognize the tap and insert the letter/number you tapped. It doesn't matter which it is since you can save a game with just 1 char :) Works for me.

Thanks -great tip Lighty.

[advantagex]

I am kind of lost as to where I can download wcII and how load it. Any help would be great

[ADBrown]

You'll need to download this for your PPC:

http://n0p.averest-k.ru/?Stratagus_%26amp%3B_Wargus

And this for your desktop PC, which helps to convert the data:

http://wargus.sourceforge.net/

And you'll also need a full copy of the Warcraft II CD. I assume you have one of those if you're interested in playing the game--if you don't, you can probably find one pretty cheap on eBay. The instructions for the PPC version should walk you through the rest.

[dot84]

tank u man>