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Davigetto

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From: In your mind

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 266

I have Warcraft III keys, but no original CD

Hi, I have the original CD keys to play in battle.net, but I have had an accident and The Frozen Throne original CD is broken.

Is there any way to play Warcraft III in arch without the original CD, only with a backup, and not using a NOCD crack? In windows I have a TFT miniiso that works, but it has a B5T extension, not ISO so mount -o loop don't mount it. Is there any way to mount that image file?

Greetings.

Last edited by Davigetto (2007-07-14 00:42:52)

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: I have Warcraft III keys, but no original CD

doesnt seem to be any support for B5T files under linux. That's what you get for using a proprietary format...

Otherwise, you can use a no-cd crack to play tft. something along this lines worked for me. use the no-cd to start war3, then move the original exe back before you go into battle.net. To automate this, use a script kinda like:

wine war3.exe &> /dev/null &
pid=$!
sleep 10
mv war3.exe war3.cracked
mv war3.orig war3.exe
wait $pid
mv war3.exe war3.orig
mv war3.cracked war3.exe

Note i'm not advocating piracy in any way, battle.net still requires a valid CD key to play. But for those who have lost the cd or cannot use it for some reason, or just can't be bothered, the above works... or at least it did when i played war3.

James

Last edited by iphitus (2007-07-14 07:08:53)

Davigetto

Member

From: In your mind

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 266

Re: I have Warcraft III keys, but no original CD

WoW, is incredible the infinite possibilities of Linux.

Thank you very much, it worked for me ^^

Greetings

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