Re: Warcraft 2 CD help

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From: t-j... Jim Fang
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:00

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chad...@svis.org (Chad Reid) wrote:

>I have a 486DX/33 that runs Warcraft 2 extremely slow. All through the
>manual it says, if you have video problems do a full install. I check,
>there is no option for a full install. I call Blizzard, they tell me
>they took out the option. After several hours, I had the entire CD
>copied to my hard disk and used all of my cracking skills to try to get
>Warcraft 2 to accept my hard disk directory as the CD. I even made my
>C:\ drive look exactly like it was the Warcraft CD. Has anyone
>successfully been able to get this to run off the hard drive with out
>the CD?

You'll need to find a program called fake cd or cdemu.  These programs
load up a fake mscdex.exe look-alike tsr.

- Jimbo

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Date: 1996/01/03
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