So, that happened 29 years ago:
Blizzard Entertainment this week began shipping "Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness," one of the most anticipated entertainment titles this year. Warcraft II, sequel to the company's award-winning fantasy-strategy game "Warcraft: Orcs and Humans," boasts several enhancements including tactical combat over land, sea and air; head-to-head play against as many as eight players; ability for players to customize their own maps, units and sound effects; and rich Super VGA graphics.
https://www.blizzardarchive.com/pub/index.php?id=press951205So, let me introduce our new build in honor of that day:
War2Combat 5.0! - The main developer of the combat have been changed to: Mistral. Reworking the main executable file of the game: fois. Project curator: il
- The concept of the combat has been changed.
- The installer with a bunch of confusing settings has been removed, the optimal default settings have been selected, they are used when installing the game.
- Important system settings of the game have been moved from the registry directly to the main executable file of the game.
- A launcher has been made for the most important settings, as well as a configurator.
- Now the combat can be downloaded and updated online, directly through the launcher.
- Now the only executable file of the game, has become a widescreen version, adapted for new modern monitors and showing more game space on the screen.
- Combat allows you to enter both the official Blizzard server and any unofficial ones.
- The ddraw configurator and the ddraw files themselves have been updated.
- Now the OpenGL visualizer is selected by default for rendering the game on modern computers, using shaders for anti-aliasing and obtaining a beautiful modern picture.
OpenGL correctly displays the BNET chat, but it switches the monitor resolution.
So, it's still possible to switch to the old GDI, which used to be the main visualizer before. The chat is still displayed in a resolution of 640x480.
You can also use the new GDI visualizer from the developer narzoul, which allows you to scale the BNET chat. However, it does not support switching to windowed mode.
- All necessary plugins for the game have been updated and tested.
- Combat includes the final versions of War2InSight and WarVideo, compatible with current and earlier versions of Warcraft II.
- The map editor has been updated by the developer: fois. Unit limit check has been removed, and other small improvements have been made.
- Utilities for map makers have been added: PudPic, as well as WarMaker.
- A trigger editor for maps has been added: War2 Triggers Editor.
Here's it: https://en.war2.ru/downloads/?file=War2Loader.exePlease, give me any feedback for this thing.
(It's kinda beta-version, so use if carefully, make a backup of your old war2combat or install this one anywhere else.)
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