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| − | [http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/sc_start.html ICCUP] - Official ICCUP website - they're currently the biggest non-Korean organization with a ladder system for organized play. You can get StarCraft | + | [http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/sc_start.html ICCUP] - Official ICCUP website - they're currently the biggest non-Korean organization with a ladder system for organized play. You can get StarCraft legally and free only from here. |
[http://www.teamliquid.net TeamLiquid] - Great resource for keeping up with SC1 news. | [http://www.teamliquid.net TeamLiquid] - Great resource for keeping up with SC1 news. | ||
Revision as of 05:21, 2 March 2012
Patches
The latest patches can be downloaded at Blizzard's Battle.net found here.
Issues and Fixes
Color Artifacts on Windows 7
Playing StarCraft or its expansion Brood War using Windows 7 causes the colors in the game to become glitched, this is due to the way the coloring works in Windows 7. To solve this, you must stop explorer.exe, however explorer.exe is a very important file that Windows uses. Using a batch file with the script of starting StarCraft and closing explorer.exe, and upon exiting the game, restoring explorer.exe.
You can find a more detailed explanation in PCGamingWiki's Color Fixes For Older Games article.
Mods
ChaosLauncher - ChaosLauncher allows you to run StarCraft with all the necessary mods like Windowed-Mode.
W-Mode - Allows you to play StarCraft in windowed mode using ChaosLauncher.
System Requirements
Resources
ICCUP - Official ICCUP website - they're currently the biggest non-Korean organization with a ladder system for organized play. You can get StarCraft legally and free only from here.
TeamLiquid - Great resource for keeping up with SC1 news.