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Re: Warcraft 2 without the CD

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From: Bill Gates
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 00:00
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drr...@acsu.buffalo.edu wrote:
> 
> plasticland wrote:
> >
> > In article <woody-27029...@206.155.44.44>, wo...@fog.net (Woody) wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Im still desperatly looking for the warcraft 2 (mac) "no cd" fix/patch. Im
> > > flying to england on monday and will be in a dull hotel room all on my own
> > > except for my powerbook which definately has no CD!
> > >
> > > any help gratefully recieved..
> > >
> > > woody

> > try using shrinkwrap to make a disk image of the cd...if i'm not mistaken
> > the whole warcraft II cd is only like 50 megs, so you can just keep the
> > disk image on their and mount it whenever you want to play...
> > i'm not sure whether that'll work for warcraft, but i tricked my copy of
> > flight unlimited (only so it would run faster) into doing that and it
> > worked fine...

> Go to http://www.qcsn.com/~mahns
> There is a patch in the games area that requires the copying of Snddat
> and Muddat files to your computer.  Just tell it where they are with
> detectcd and run.  You get EVERYTHING with this one.

The patch on this site is for the PC not the Mac! It doesn't work!
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From: Bill Gates <bi...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Warcraft 2 without the CD
Date: 1997/03/08
Message-ID: <3321F128.5D85@microsoft.com>
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