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WARCRAFT 2 CRACK V2.3 PiXIE
WC2CRACK.TXT mailto:ginggs@iafrica.com
96/11/05 http://pluto.iafrica.com/~ginggs/
ABOUT
This program will patch your installation of Warcraft 2
so that it can operate with or without your Warcraft 2 CD.
It is not intended as a way of copying your CD for all your
friends.
GETTING STARTED
Copy WC2CRACK.EXE, DETECTCD.EXE and WAR2CD.BAT into your
Warcraft 2 directory.
Run WC2CRACK.EXE, if there are any problems you will be
informed at this stage.
Only use this program on installations from CD or from
Blizzard's upgrade patches, not on an installation that
you or someone else has modified.
After the modifications are complete, Warcraft 2 should be
quite happy about running without the CD installed.
TIPS & TRICKS
If you sometimes wish to play without the CD, and sometimes
with the CD, you can run DETECTCD.EXE before running WAR2.EXE.
Be sure to tell DETECTCD where your CD-ROM is.
e.g. DETECTCD F:\
If DETECTCD finds your Warcraft 2 data, it will tell Warcraft 2
that you want the speech and the cut scenes, otherwise
Warcraft 2 will just run without them.
Have a look at WAR2CD.BAT for an example on how to do this
automatically, just run WAR2CD.BAT every time instead of
WAR2.EXE.
If you want to play Warcraft 2 on a computer that has no CD-ROM
drive, such as a laptop, you don't ever have to run DETECTCD.
If you have a lot of free drive space on such a computer, you
could install all the speech and cut scene data onto the
hard disk, you will need about 100MB free though.
The speech data is stored in SNDDAT.WAR, and the cut scene
data is stored in MUDDAT.CUD.
Make sure that DETECTCD knows where you have put the data.
e.g. If you put the data in C:\WAR2CD\DATA, you will call
DETECTCD C:\WAR2CD
You will only have to run DETECTCD once, after transferring
the files. If you later delete the files, run DETECTCD
once again.
If you have the Beyond the Dark Portal CD, you can now play
all the levels from both episodes without having to put in
your old Tides of Darkness CD. Yes, Blizzard put all
the Tides of Darkness information on the Beyond the Dark
Portal CD, but didn't tell anyone.
HISTORY
V2.3 96/11/05
Now patches v1.22. (Thanks to Chris Bates)
V2.2 96/10/11
Modified both versions of MUDDAT.CUD and SOUNDDAT.WAR to
allow the same WAR2.EXE to work with or without the CD.
(Thanks to RAD Game Tools for inventing Smacker)
Confirm overwriting of data files.
Released with DETECTCD.EXE.
V2.1 96/10/09
Now patches v1.33.
Changed version detection to accomodate v1.33 which has the
same size WAR2.EXE as v1.3.
V2.0 96/10/03
Complete rewrite, patches all versions up to v1.3.
Reduced MUDDAT.CUD to about 6K.
Created MUDDAT.CUD and SOUNDDAT.WAR for the v1.3 CD.
V1.0 96/09/11
Original version, patches WAR2.EXE v1.20p only.
Uses Hybrid's 96K MUDDAT.CUD file. (Thanks to Cyber / Hybrid)