Starcraft/Broodwar 1.15.1 & THINSTALL

[!HaGaR!]

Wow... Decades ago I was proud having 10+ games on one disc, ripped nicely to only decrunch them and play... But it´s nowadays to much pain in the ass to search the whole registry values, grab a working crack, raring it, maybe splitting it over severals discs ("ripping" correctly eats much more time, checkling if the game stops when content is missing) andsoon...

For me it´s "portable" enough to have DT Lite around, the complete image of the game and that´s it, folks. Installing it is in the most cases the same time as un-raring it... You have everything around wehen you need to patch the game and don´t see any "original not installed" messages because u missed a single registry value... No, thx.

Today I am proud of having a perfectly emulated image which contains everything the original games contains.

The tool metioned above sounds interesting, though. USB-Portable apps to run as standalone... Well, nice indeed. 40 bucks would rock. But 4.000? Whoaw. Well. Then I should better buy 4 real nice laptops and I carry these ones around^^

Hagar out

[Joe Forster/STA]

Registry values are quite localized into one or two groups at most. Also, you can use RegMon or some registry snapshot & compare software to find out the changes during the real installation. And, as games are not designed for slipstreaming, probably ripping is the only way to incorporate the latest official updates, addons, editors, tools etc. into them.

As for this thinstall software, it was meant to be used by software professionals, not for just running games in "unexpected environments", that's why it's so damn expensive.

[jman06]

well, good news. I finally got it working! I was missing ONE registry key that for some reason I forgot to implement as well. WOW - that took like 3 days to figure out. But now I got everything in one file! geez....

and actually I just checked a basic license (excluding distribution fees) is $4,995. So....Yea...I saw a XPS laptop (customized to my specs) that was that much and I rather buy that than a license...geez.

I actually used RegMon, Forester, to see what I was missing so thanks again. That saved me!

[Muyfa666]

This sounds like a good idea. Portable 100% working versions of SC & BW? I'm game. But, if I understand you correctly - I need to pay 4000$ to do this?

If so, sweet DT - here I come again.

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by jman06

and actually I just checked a basic license (excluding distribution fees) is $4,995. So....Yea...I saw a XPS laptop (customized to my specs) that was that much and I rather buy that than a license...geez.

So pray tell how are you using the application right now?

[jman06]

Originally Posted by DABhand

So pray tell how are you using the application right now?

I work for Lucidiom and help manage the distribution of software to clients.