This Read Me contains corrections and additions to the Warcraft manual, a trouble-shooting guide, and a list of cheat codes. For more information on two-player games, see the document Warcraft Two-Player Notes.
For new features or bug fixes to Warcraft, see section 9, Version History.
• Warcraft has a minimum requirement of System 7.0 or greater. It requires a Macintosh or Power Macintosh (or compatible); for best results, a 68040 or PowerPC processor is strongly recommended. Warcraft is completely native on the Power Macintosh.
• Warcraft requires a color display with a minimum of 256 colors and 640x480 resolution.
• Your system should have at least eight megabytes of total memory.
Important note: If you get an alert with the message
"Warcraft needs an additional XXX K of memory"
please see "Problem #1" in the TROUBLESHOOTING SECTION in order to increase the memory available to Warcraft.
To install Warcraft, use the Warcraft installer (insert the Warcraft CD into your CD-ROM drive, locate the "Warcraft Installer" icon, and run the installer by either double-clicking on the icon or clicking once to select and choosing Open from the File menu). Choose the configuration most appropriate to your system.
A minimal install will mean that game load times will be slow, but once the game is loaded, game play will be at normal speeds (all data is loaded into memory before you begin playing). This takes up the smallest amount of space on your hard disk that is practical. Note that while it is possible to run entirely off the CD-ROM, this is not recommended for normal use.
The minimal install puts the following files on your hard disk:
• Warcraft
• Quicktime 2.1, Sound Manager 3.1, Display Enabler 2.0 (in your active system folder)
This will take 3 megabytes of space on your hard disk (less if you already have some or all of the system extensions installed).
A standard install is the best for those without unlimited hard disk space; movies play off the CD-ROM, everything else from your hard disk. This will take about 30 megabytes of hard disk space. Note that if the CD-ROM is not present, a standard install will run properly, using still pictures in place of movies.
The standard install puts the following files on your hard disk:
• Warcraft
• War Data file
• Quicktime 2.1, Sound Manager 3.1, Display Enabler 2.0 (in your active system folder)
This will take 30 megabytes of space on your hard disk (less if you already have some or all of the system extensions installed).
A full install will install everything onto your hard disk; this will take about 95 megabytes of hard disk space.
The full install puts the following files on your hard disk:
• Warcraft
• War Data file
• War Movies folder
• Quicktime 2.1, Sound Manager 3.1, Display Enabler 2.0 (in your active system folder)
This will take 95 megabytes of space on your hard disk (less if you already have some or all of the system extensions installed).
The automatic three installation options will create a Warcraft folder on your hard disk with a ready-to-run copy. The normal installs will also install or update necessary system extensions like Sound Manager, Quicktime, and Display Enabler.
Note: MacIPX is not installed by default. If you are going to be using IPX as a network connection method, then click the checkbox MacIPX in the installer to install MacIPX to your active system folder.
To run the game, either double-click on the "Warcraft" icon, or click once to select and use Open from the File menu.
What the various extensions are for
Quicktime is used to play the movies in the game. The installer puts the latest version of Quicktime (2.1) on your hard disk. If you have a newer version of Quicktime, the installer will not overwrite it. Quicktime 2.1 is highly recommended over Quicktime 1.6.
Sound Manager 3.1 is used to play sounds on the Macintosh. Sound Manager 3.1 has significant speed improvements for Power Macintosh computers, and is also recommended for 680x0 Macintoshes (better sound mixing). If you have a newer version of Sound Manager, the installer will not overwrite it. Sound Manager 3.1 is built in to System 7.5.3 (also known as System 7.5 Update 2.0).
Communications Toolbox tools are used to establish two-play game connections. The Communications Toolbox itself is built into System 7, but no tools ship with the default installation. The latest set of applicable Comm Toolbox tools is installed. Note that tools do not take up any memory when they are not in use, so you can leave them in your Extensions folder at all times.
Display Enabler 2.0 is used to control multi-sync monitors. Using Display Enabler 2.0, Warcraft can switch resolutions so that your monitor is in 640x480 mode while playing the game; this is generally desired, both for general aesthetics and for scrolling when the mouse is at the edges of the game screen.
MacIPX 1.3 is used to allow two-player games using the IPX protocol. To play a network game between Macintosh Warcraft and IBM Warcraft, IPX must be used. IPX can also be used between two Macintoshes, without any effect on other Macintoshes on an Appletalk Ethernet.
Using aliases
Warcraft will resolve aliases for the War Data file and for the War Movies folder. If you wish to put the War Data file or the Movies folder somewhere separate from the Warcraft application, just make aliases for items that will be stored other than with the Warcraft application, and put the aliases with the Warcraft application. The installer does not make aliases because it presumes that you will have the Warcraft CD in the drive for items left on the CD.
Copy Protection
If you run the game without the Warcraft CD in the drive, you will be prompted to either insert the CD in the drive, or type in a word from the manual.
If you place the CD-ROM in the drive at this point, the game will continue as soon as the CD-ROM is mounted on the desktop; you won't need to hit any buttons. If you don't want to put the CD-ROM in the drive, then type in the indicated word and click the OK button.
Alternatively, you can notify Warcraft that this is to be a “spawned copy” for the purpose of playing a two-player game against another computer, (one that has the CD-ROM mounted). See the section "Two-Player Games" for more details on spawned copies.
Startup Options
When you first run Warcraft, you will get a Startup Options dialog that has some important system configuration items.
Quit other applications: if this is checked, then all other applications will be quit when Warcraft starts up. You may wish to do this for two reasons: memory, and speed. Applications running in the background will take up some of the computer's processing time. To free up the most memory, you may also choose to Quit Finder also, which will quit the Finder when Warcraft starts up. When Warcraft quits, the Finder will re-launch.
Switch to 640x480: if this is checked, Warcraft will switch the game monitor to 640x480 before running the game (if you have Display Manager 2.0 software installed–this is installed by the Warcraft Installer by default), and will switch the resolution back when the game quits. Again, this feature only works if Display Manager can switch resolutions with your monitor.
Hide desktop: if this is checked, Warcraft will hide all other applications on all monitors. If this is not checked, Warcraft will run in a window on the selected monitor (if the monitor resolution is greater than 640x480).
Turn off File Sharing: if this is checked, Warcraft will turn off File Sharing while Warcraft is running. This will increase game performance slightly.
Disable screen saver: if this is checked, Warcraft will turn off your screen saver while Warcraft is running. The screen saver must comply with the 'SAVC' gestalt mechanism for turning screen savers on and off (After Dark 2.0x or greater, Basic Black 1.41 or greater, and selected other screen savers) for this to work.
Hide Control Strip: if this is checked, Warcraft will hide the Control Strip (this also applies to Desktop Strip and other Control Strip clones) while Warcraft is running. Some versions of Control Strip automatically hide themselves when the menu bar is hidden, but this feature makes sure that Control Strip is not shown while Warcraft is running.
Disable other monitors: If you have two or more monitors, the Disable other monitors checkbox will be enabled. If checked, other monitors will be "turned off" while Warcraft is running (this is very useful to allow quick edge scrolling without moving the mouse out of the game area.
Choose Monitor: If you have two or more color monitors, the Choose Monitor button will be enabled. When you click on this button, a window will appear on each monitor capable of running Warcraft. Click in the window on the monitor you wish to use. To remind you, the Startup Options dialog will appear on the monitor that has been chosen for Warcraft.
If you select the Don't ask again checkbox, this dialog will not be presented at startup from then on. To get the dialog back, hold down the option key when Warcraft is starting up, or click the Startup… button in the Preferences dialog.
The Apple menu contains the About Warcraft menu item, which displays an informative but typical about screen. Note: if you Quit the Finder, there will be no desk accessories or other items in this menu, because the Finder maintains that list.
File Menu
New Game… brings up a dialog to start a new single-player game.
New Two-Player… brings up a dialog to connect to another user to start a two-player game.
Open Game… brings up a standard Macintosh dialog to select a game to open
End Game ends the current game
Save Game As… brings up a standard Macintosh dialog to save game
Restart Scenario restarts the current game (after verify)
Disconnect in two player mode, will disconnect the from your opponent (after verify)
Quit quits Warcraft (after verify)
Note: there is no Save Game, but Save Game As… will remember the last name you saved under.
Edit Menu
Preferences… will bring up a preferences dialog (see below)
Game Menu
Game menu items are only enabled when a game is running
Pause will pause the current game
Hide/Show Menu Bar will hide or show the menu bar
Recall/Set Location 1 will recall a location, or remember it if the option key is down
Recall/Set Location 2 will recall a location, or remember it if the option key is down
Recall/Set Location 3 will recall a location, or remember it if the option key is down
Recall/Set Location 4 will recall a location, or remember it if the option key is down
Mini Map will show the mini-map in the status area
Unit Screen will show the active unit totals in the status area
Economy Screen will show gold and lumber harvested
Score will show the objective and current score
Preferences dialog
The Warcraft Preferences dialog allows you to control a number of settings for the Warcraft environment.
There are seven normal Game Speed options in the range from Slowest (good in the beginning) to Fastest. Fastest is 3 times Normal Speed, and Slowest is 1/2 of Normal speed. If you control-option click in the Game Speed popup, you will get extra choices for faster game speed.
Mouse Scroll and Keyboard Scroll speed control how fast map scrolling happens with the mouse or with the keyboard.
The Mute checkbox will disable all sound except for music playing from the CD-ROM. Otherwise, you can control relative levels for music and for sound effects via the pop-up menus. If you have stereo speakers, click the Stereo panning checkbox for stereo output. The CD off switch will turn off CD-audio music (useful if your CD-ROM player is an external without audio input to the Macintosh).
Stereo panning enables stereo playback of sound effects. If you have external speakers connected to your Macintosh, check this box.
If you have Speech Manager and you wish to have messages spoken (uses PlainTalk or Macintalk), then click Speak messages (speak messages may not function on an 8 Meg system).
Leave the Cache on hard disk checkbox checked if you use the standard application partition. If you have enough memory, give Warcraft another 1000K of RAM and uncheck this box (sounds will be loaded all into memory all at once, for slightly faster performance).
Click Always print messages if you want all spoken messages printed to the screen as well. This is useful if you are hearing impaired or in a noisy environment.
To turn off the self-running demo in the title screen, check No self-running demos.
If Smooth scrolling is checked, scrolling will be smoother; if it is not checked, scrolling will be faster. This defaults to not checked.
Click the Startup… button to get to the Warcraft Startup dialog, which sets start-up preferences.
Both Catapults and Summoned Creatures operate in manners dissimilar from other units in the game:
The catapult will attack enemy units automatically ONLY if there are no friendly units that will be effected by splash damage from the missile. If you select the Attack command and specify a target, the catapult will fire at the selected target regardless of friendly unit proximity.
Summoned Creatures have a Magic Point (MP) bar as well as a Hit Point (HP) bar. The MP bar will degrade over time, and when it is drained, the summoned creature will begin taking damage, as the powers that hold it here are no longer in force.
AutoDoubler on Power Macintosh when using Communications Toolbox
There is a known incompatibility with Power Macintoshes, Auto-Doubler, and the Communications Toolbox. If you have this combination, you will either have to use MacIPX for two-player games, or disable Auto-Doubler while doing two-player Warcraft games.
After Dark and other screen savers
In general, having a screen saver active during a game is not recommended. With Warcraft, screen savers that activate when the mouse goes into a specific corner are even more problematical, as the player uses the mouse to scroll in edges and corners. There are also reports of crashes when After Dark activates with certain screen saver modes while Warcraft is running. We suggest that screen savers be disabled while Warcraft is running, either by using the Turn off screen saver check box in the Startup Options dialog, or manually disabling it in your screen saver's control panel.
Display Enabler and Now Startup Manager
Now Startup Manager 5.01 may think that Display Enabler 2.0 will crash your computer. This is incorrect. We suggest you do not run Now Startup Manager 5.01 with Display Enabler 2.0. This may be fixed by a future version of either Now Startup Manager or Display Enabler.
Most systems should experience no difficulties running Warcraft. However, a small percentage of systems may experience occasional system conflicts. Many of these problems are quite easy to fix using the information provided below.
Problem 1: I don't have enough free memory to play Warcraft
Here are several solutions to increase your free memory:
• Have Warcraft quit all applications, including the Finder, when it starts up. Quitting the Finder will free 150K or more of memory (depending on how much extra memory Finder uses to display windows, etc).
• Don't load unnecessary extensions. Extension Manager comes with System 7.5, and is available for older systems. Turn off any unnecessary extensions and reboot. We suggest this list of Extensions for Systems 7.0 through 7.5.2: Display Enabler, Apple CD-ROM, Foreign File Access, Quicktime, Quicktime Power Plug, Sound Manager, and your Apple control panels. The above list is for the Apple Extensions Manager, if you are using a different EM (Conflict Catcher, Now Startup) then the list may be slightly different.
If you have System 7.5.3 then Sound Manager and Display Enabler are included in the System file, and will not show in the Extensions Manager.
Warcraft needs Sound Manager 3.0 or greater. If Quicktime is not loaded, movies will not play, but the game will otherwise function normally. MacIPX only needs to be loaded if you are going to play two-player games over an IPX network connection.
• Turn down your disk cache (in the Memory control panel). 64K is adequate for most modern Macintoshes, except in specific rare cases.
Problem 2: I don't get any music during the game
Scenario music is stored as audio files on the Warcraft CD. You must have the CD-ROM in an internal drive to get the music, external CD-Rom drives can only transfer data, not music. Also, make sure that the Playthrough checkbox in the Sound control panel is clicked.
Go to the Sound control panel, and check Input from the pop-up menu at the top.
Click on the Options button, and make sure that CD-ROM input is selected, and that the Playthrough checkbox is clicked. Note: your Options screen may look slightly differently than the one below.
Problem 4: My Mac freezes every so often when playing Warcraft
Check to make sure that you don't have Calculate Folder Sizes turned on in the Views control panel. This causes the Finder to scan your hard disk whenever it thinks the computer is idle, and when you don't click in Warcraft it thinks the computer is idle. Go to the Views control panel, and uncheck the Calculate Folder Sizes checkbox while playing Warcraft.
Note: If you have an Apple 300 CD-Rom drive with a caddy, then please go to the Warcraft Preferences and check the “AppleCD 300 Music Fix” box.
Problem ZZZ: I can't get to sleep
Play Warcraft. It won't help you get to sleep any faster, but at least you're doing something.
To enable a cheat, first start a game by choosing either "New Game" or "Load Game". Once the game has started, press the return key. Near the bottom of the screen, you will see the string "msg: ". Type any of the codes below and press return. If the cheat was typed correctly, you will see the message:
CHEAT ENABLED YOU WASCALLY WABBIT!
If you type the same cheat code again, the cheat will be disabled (where appropriate). Please note that in a Two-Player game, these codes will affect both sides.
Warcraft has a Master Code that is required to enable the cheat codes listed below, and it must be entered before any of the codes will work.
Master code: CORWIN OF AMBER
CODE EFFECT
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HUMAN xx go to human level xx (where xx is 1 to 12)
ORC xx go to human level xx (where xx is 1 to 12)
YOURS TRULY Takes player to the victory sequence
CRUSHING DEFEAT Takes player to the loss sequence
IDES OF MARCH Takes player to the finale sequence
These cheats only work in Campaign Mode (1-player)
POT OF GOLD Adds 10,000 gold and 5,000 lumber to your reserves
EYE OF NEWT Upgrades your magic users with all spells
IRON FORGE Upgrades all technologies immediately
SALLY SHEARS Reveals the entire game map
HURRY UP GUYS All buildings, units and upgrades are built/trained
at an accelerated rate
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE All of your units are invulnerable except by a direct
catapult hit, and will inflict 255 points of damage per hit
CHRONOS Adds more speeds to the Game Speed menu (and +/-)
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9. Version History
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Warcraft 1.0.6
Bug fixes
• A bug relating to how a Sound Manager function was being called was fixed—this could cause crashes on a PowerMacintosh at odd intervals, even after Warcraft was run and quit.
• A bug relating to how MacIPX was being loaded—the new version of MacIPX is not active until specifically opened by an application (only affects Macs with MacIPX 1.3 on it—Warcraft 1.0 shipped with MacIPX 1.2, which did not have this "feature").
Warcraft 1.0.3
Bug fixes
• CD audio track 1 would not play on AppleCD 300 (double-speed drives using a caddy). A workaround was added, enabled by a checkbox in the Preferences dialog. If you have problems with CD audio on some game levels, set this checkbox to fix the problem.
• Some of the Warcraft cursors were solid black on some Powerbook models; single-color cursors were misinterpreted as B&W. This was fixed by making cursors at least 2-bit deep.
New features
• Warcraft now reads IBM saved games, so it can load custom levels created as IBM saved games. For examples of custom levels created as saved games, see the following Web sites:
• "Hide desktop" (was "hide other apps") now covers all monitors, not just the monitor that Warcraft is running on.
• File sharing can be turned off while Warcraft is running.
• The Control Strip (and Desktop Strip etc). can be hidden while Warcraft is running.
• CD-audio can be turned off (for playing from external CD-ROM drive where there is no audio hookup).
• Unit targeting code speed-up (faster Mac-to-Mac games). General speed-up on slower Macintoshes (PPC version compiled for 603 for more speed on Performa Macintoshes).
• When faster scrolling is checked, scrolling happens at a constant rate regardless of machine speed (scrolling will happen in larger chunks on slower machines). When not checked, scrolling is smooth, but slow on slow machines.
Warcraft 1.0.2
Bug fixes
• "Turn off screen saver" feature fixed on Power Macintosh (would cause Type 11 crash on startup).
• ThreadsLib is now marked as weak import, so the ThreadsLib file is not required to run Warcraft.
Warcraft 1.0.1
Bug fixes
• Display Manager check fixed so that game will not crash if Display Manager is present but Display Enabler is missing (would crash on PCI Macs if the Warcraft Installer was not used). Warcraft will not crash if Display Manager is improperly installed (but resolution switching will not work until Display Manager is fully installed).
New features
• Click on empty space does not deselect units, only click and drag does. This prevents inadvertant deselecting of units when trying to command a target location.
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10. Contacting Blizzard
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If you encounter further problems, please consult Blizzard Technical Support, through one of these convenient options
Phone Support
Our Technical Support number is (714) 955-1382. Our Hours are 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, Monday through Friday, holidays excluded.
On-Line Support
Blizzard Entertainment provides Upcoming News, Latest Versions, Updates, Product Demos, Technical Support and more on the following On-Line Services for Modem users.
E-Mail: The primary E-Mail for Macintosh Technical Support is: macsupport@blizzard.com
Blizzard IceNet: Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at (714) 955-1481, with settings of 8,N,1 and support of up to 28.8 baud. Please use your Terminal Program to call the IceNet, Warcraft will not be able to connect to a BBS.
America Online: The Blizzard Forum is located at keyword "BlizzardEnt". There is also a Warcraft Discussion Site in the Computer Strategy Gaming Section in the "Strategy and Other Sims" folder under Warcraft. E-Mail=BlizzardEnt
CompuServe: The Blizzard Entertnmnt forum is located in Game Publishers Forum D (GO GAMEDPUB). E-Mail=74777,1115
Internet: Blizzard mantains a web site at address <http://www.blizzard.com>
