Starcraft multiplayer, household hookup.?

Question

I want to be able to play starcraft multiplayer in my house. We have 2 computers, a desktop and a Laptop. At the moment, both are connected to the internet via a router.

I only have one starcraft CD, and one Broodwar CD. Is there a way to connect to battlenet through internet for multiplayer with this? Or will it block us out because starcraft was installed on both computers using a single cd key #, even if one of us uses the expansion disc to access Battlenet? Or is there a way to use LAN with our router (or without router somehow) to connect to each other with only these CDs?

Answer 1

Hello.

You will not be able to login to Battle.net using the same CD-Key, no.
You may make a copy of the Broodwar cd-key, and play on your LAN.
You may also both play original Starcraft (not Broodwar) using the Broodwar disc and the Starcraft disc, through LAN.

And to play by LAN, first you need to make sure you have the current patch (http://www.blizzard.com/patches/ ), once you're certain of this go to Multiplayer, and instead of Battle.net, use the bottom-most option (Local Area Network UDP). Both of you should select this. One person creates a game, the other joins.

Hope this answers your question.

Answer 2

I play with other computers in my house all the time. you need a program like alcohol52% or game jackal so you don't need the disk to play. a free one is daemon tools.