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I joined gog a couple years ago as a Mac user because I wanted to play Warcraft II, but found out after joining, even though it sold me the Warcraft Bundle, that Warcraft II did not work for the Mac. Has WC2 ever been updated for Mac use? Is there any plan to ever do so?
toyman55

What made you think, it was for Mac?

If you can install and use DosBox on Mac, i don't see why you can't use it as is.

GOG has the Battle.net re-release of WC2, not the DOS version.

Hmmm......

When I joined, I joined as a Mac user, most games would tell me before purchase that that it did not work for Mac, but the WC Bundle said Mac, and I purchased it. But turns out, only 1 of the 2 games were for Mac.

I bought the battle.net WarCraft 1 & 2 back in June 2021. Only WC 1 works with the Mac. Do you think it has been updated? My copy seems the same.

It's weird they excluded the Mac version in the GoG release. In the 90s Mac was often left out of PC gaming, and Blizzard back then made sure to release a Mac version for each of their games.

Don't think so.

But a quick internet search brought up this:
https://www.portingkit.com/game/1388

Maybe you could give it a try.

Good luck!~

Warcraft II was made back in the PowerPC days. Someone would have to redo all the compilations from now ancient libraries to get it running on the ARM.

Maybe next time don't buy an overpriced computer running the stepchild of Unix.

WC 2 on GOG is a Windows game; theoretically GOG could have used a Wine wrapper as they have for some games, but that's not a great idea because they don't ever seem to update the wrapper, so it eventually gets out of date. It's better just to use Wine with the Windows version. It's not quite as easy as just downloading a Mac version, but as mentioned above, PortingKit will work and is quite simple.

Maybe next time don't make moronic comments about things you know nothing about. You can't "redo all the compilations" because it was made for an entirely different operating system, not just a different CPU (CPUs, actually; 68K + PPC). Also, macOS is certified Unix, not a "stepchild". For a long time now Unix is a specification about whether an OS is 100% compliant with Unix standards (and the company making the OS paid the $$$).

Not sure. But that more depends on if the iso's are included or not. Sometimes they redo the whole game properly, and sometimes they just slap it together with an emulator and call it good. I thought blizzard was redoing their older games to work with their new SC2 engine. (Though we know how WC3 Reforged went).

For now i'd just suggest going to the actual installation directory and see if there's any binaries or shortcuts to access WC2. If the ISO is there i'll provide a wrapper and scripts that will hopefully make the game playable using Dosbox.

I'll look into it, thanks

Just in case you missed it earlier, GOG only provides the Windows edition of Warcraft 2 ("Battle.net edition"), not the DOS one.

How about Wargus? That should run on a MacOS X:

https://stratagus.com/