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<h1 class="title"><a href="/blog/2013/08/10/warcraft-3-mac-wineskin/">Warcraft 3 on MAC with wineskin</a></h1>
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Published on August 10, 2013
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<p>A few days ago, I bought Warcraft III. I never finished it before, since I
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didn't own the game, and lately I had this inner urge to play a game on the
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Warcraft series. Since going back to World of Warcraft isn't an option, I
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decided to rollback to the part of the Warcraft lore that is unknown to me.</p>
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<p>Sadly after buying the game I discovered that they dropped support for the
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game when Apple did the conversion of their hardware from powerpc to intel.
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There was no way of running the mac version of the game on newer hardware, and
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I even contacted Blizzard support about the matter, but the answer was the one
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I feared: I had to use wine. This reminded me of the old days when I was a
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linux user and this was needed in order to play anything on linux.</p>
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<p><img src="/blog/2013/08/10/warcraft-3-mac-wineskin/wineskin.png" alt=""></p>
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<h2 id="installing-the-needed-software">Installing the needed software</h2><p>First of all, you will need to download
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<a href="http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-
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index.php?page=Wineskin%2C+Play+your+favorite+Windows+games+on+Mac+OS+X+without+needing+Microsoft+Windows">Wineskin</a>,
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as we're going to use this to "emulate" our windows environment. Also,
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download the windows warcraft downloaders from your battle.net account.</p>
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<p>Execute it and download the last engine (clicking on the plus symbol) and also
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update the wrapper.</p>
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<p>You should see your wineskin window similar to the one on the left.</p>
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<p>Now you need to create a clean wrapper for your Warcraft III installation.</p>
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<h2 id="creating-the-wrapper">Creating the wrapper</h2><p>Just click on the "Create New Blank Wrapper" button and give it a name. I will
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go with "Warcraft III.app". It will ask you to install some mono/gecko
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libraries needed for the wrapper. Just go with it and wait until all the
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process finishes.</p>
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<p>You will be prompted if you want to open the containing folder, do it since
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now we need to configure our wrapper.</p>
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<p>Now, right click the app you created and select "Show package contents".</p>
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<p>Execute Wineskin.app, and select "Install software", on the next panel select
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"Select setup executable" and go to the path of your warcraft 3 downloader,
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that will prompt the installation menu when it finishes.</p>
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<p>Install your warcraft as you would in a windows machine, and when you exit the
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installer wineskin will ask for the main executable file, select "Warcraft
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III.exe". After that, repeat the process with the Frozen Throne executable.</p>
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<h2 id="configuration">Configuration</h2><p>We need to tweak some things before we can play, here's what I did:</p>
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<li>Go to set screen options and set windowed. Since I have a 16:9 screen and the game runs at 4:3, everything is streched. Maybe there's a 16:9 patch around the net.</li>
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<li>I customized the icon with <a href="http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/3xhumed/mega-games-pack-36/256/Warcraft-3-Reign-of-Chaos-5-icon.png">this one</a>. You need to convert it to ICNS for using it with wineskin (you can use <a href="http://iconverticons.com/online/">this online tool</a>). Copy it into the package and select on the advanced options in the wineskin executable.</li>
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<li>If you want to play with the frozen throne expansion, change the Windows EXE on the advanced settings panel to "Frozen Throne.exe".</li>
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<li>Since wine can't play the cinematics, you can safely remove/rename the movies folder under the warcraft installation folder. (Default: <code>drive_c/Program Files/Warcraft III</code>)</li>
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<li>Delete the game installers if you stored them into the wineskin package to keep the .app file size to a minimum.</li>
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<h2 id="enjoy">Enjoy!</h2><p><img src="/blog/2013/08/10/warcraft-3-mac-wineskin/game.png" alt=""></p>
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<p>It's done! Store the Warcraft III.app somewhere if you don't want to repeat
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the process if you delete the game.</p>
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<h3 id="updates">Updates:</h3><ul>
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<li>Using the -opengl EXE flag will get you a smoother framerate. (thanks to <strong>Sylvain Prevost</strong> in the comments)</li>
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<li>Suggested engine: WS9Wine1.7.2. (by <strong>Sylvain Prevost</strong> in the comments)</li>
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