Warcraft 2 fakes out likes it loading but doesnt

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cookoohead

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i installed warcraft 2 the version i bought 5 years ago on my new compaq presario 5000, it says the installation was successful and stuff and when i try to open it a black screen pops up and says copyright information like it should then the screen disapears and goes back to windows...how do i fix...and the weird thing is that it works perfectly on my crappy 66mhz power mac
plz help me
 
If this is the old Mac release of Warcraft 2 (and not War2: Battlenet Edition) then there could be a variety of problems. Since you say it's 5 years old, I'm guessing that may be the case.

First: You may want to try upgrading the version, the pre-war2bne game patches are located here:
http://www.blizzard.com/support/information/wc2patch.shtml

The original Warcraft 2 is a DOS (16-bit) game, which is also a problem itself.

The Mac cd's of the original Warcraft 2 may actually be different than the PC cd's, the Mac version was developed after the PC version and sometimes programmers get lazy and just let sleeping dogs lie. This means the mac cd may still have had PC installation files, even though they wouldn't work. I doubt that is the case, but since I never had the Mac cd, I'm taking guesses.

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