AmigaOne goes to Azeroth (Stratagus Release on 17th April 2025)

real capture video from Pegasos-II G4 1Ghz + radeon 9200se.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5ktfyiK7o

is fully playable

@TheMagicSN

Just bought both your Amiga version and the Battle.NET Edition of WarcraftII and tried to do the install. But, alas, I can't seem to get it to work.
The installer simply bombs out with the message:

Quote:

"Programs:Games/Warcraft2" is my chosen install location. And if I check there is a "wc2.data" drawer in there.

It also spooks me a bit that the installer asks for the path of the CD before telling me to first do all the MpqMaster magic in Windows and then select where I've copied the extracted output.
There is not CD content since the Battle.NET version is an online installer run by the Battle.NET client on Windows.
My workaround has been to copy the entire Windows installed-game folder over and use that as CD content, although it seems a bit much to have basically copied the game over twice as both MPQ content and installed content.

Any good advice on how to continue?
It is, btw. on an X5000/20.

The Battle.net version i tried with was an actual CD.

I assumed the digital content blizzard sells would be the same files.

Does the installation work after the workaround or is there still an issue?

The whoole mpqmaster stuff is due to the depacker for those “tome”
files could not be ported (not an endian issue btw on other
Big endian systems it runs).

The easiest though is to use the old dos cd this also enables you to
convert audio tracks (admitted you might have to reencode the cd
As the amiga has problems with “red book” multi session cds).

When i am back home tomorrow i will check on the error message
and how i can adapt the installer to the obviously different layout
of the version you got.

Feel free to send me an email.

Steffen

@TheMagicSN

Ah, yeah, then it makes sense with the CD content path requester. I just don't have a CD with the Batlle.NET-client-installed version.

Anywho ... nope, I only got to that point with the error prompt when I used the path of the installed content copied over in the CD path requester.

Unfortunately I don't have any old DOS version CD. I might be able to dig out an old MacOS version CD if I dig long enough in my storage room, but I guess that won't cut it either. I played it a bit back in the day via ShapeShifter :)

Are the files from the install processed in any way, or would a directory/file layout list allow me to manually copy files where they should go, and then ignore the installer altogether?

Hi!

Yes, of course you can ignore the installer.

What in case of the battle net stuff you definitely need to do though is to run the wartool exe to depack the stuff which is in a "special format" from Blizzard on the original distribution (whether CD or not).

You basically need those two archives from mpqmaster and the "base directory" where your Warcraft2 distribution is in.

Then you would call

c/wartool -v work:distribution/DATA work:Warcraft2/wc2.data

This assumes you have the stuff from the distribution in work:distribution, and the future install would be in work:Warcraft2.

My suspicion is though that if you remove this line

(copyfiles(source (tackon #strat-dir "wc2.data/."))(help "")(dest(tackon #strat-dir "wc2.data"))(all))

from the installer at line 1014, that it would run (possible that the next line also needs to be removed).

It seems the wartool-depacking has been correctly done, but that in your version the stuff looks different.

Maybe you can send me a list (just do a

list Programs:Games/Warcraft2/wc2.data all >ram:filelist.txt

and then send me filelist.txt so I can check how the archive of the distribution differed from the CD.

Another possibility might be that you have some tool installed which actually does the "./" as on Linux instead of creating a directory named ".". Is this possible ?

Best regards,
Steffen