StarCraft - Blizzard removes cd-check

[khlb]

In an unexpected move from Blizzard – the company has removed the necessity to have the cd present when playing either Starcraft or Starcraft: Broodwar in their latest patch 1.15.2.

Starcraft and Brood War Patch Information

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- patch 1.15.2
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Feature Changes

- StarCraft and StarCraft: BroodWar no longer require the CD while playing the
game. To play without the CD, please follow the following instructions:

- Windows Users:
- Make sure you have "Hide extensions for known types" unchecked under
Explorer Folder Options.
- If you own only StarCraft, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft CD to
your StarCraft folder and rename it to "StarCraft.mpq".
- If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft:
Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "BroodWar.mpq".

- Mac users:
- If you own only StarCraft, copy "StarCraft Archive" from the StarCraft CD
to your StarCraft folder.
- If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "Brood War Archive" from the
StarCraft: Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder.​

URL and info: http://us.blizzard.com/support/arti...oryId=2716&parentCategoryId=2612&pageNumber=1

Nice going there! - Blizzard

 

[Tak]

Excellent, thanks for the show and tell. Clears up some space, that file is smaller than the profile I had for SC and BW