At approximately 11 p.m. EST, all SC and SC: Broodwar clients were booted from USEast.Battle.net.
After all was said and done, the only thing listed as a change with the new patch is that you can now play StarCraft and StarCraft Broodwar without the CDs if you follow the instructions provided after the patch successfully downloads and installs.
Battle.net's connection protocols may have also been tweaked a bit, as is often the case.
Here are the installer details:
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- patch 1.15.2
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Feature Changes
- StarCraft and StarCraft: BroodWar no longer require the CD while playing the
game. To play without the CD, please follow the following instructions:
- Windows Users:
- Make sure you have "Hide extensions for known types" unchecked under
Explorer Folder Options.
- If you own only StarCraft, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft CD to
your StarCraft folder and rename it to "StarCraft.mpq".
- If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft:
Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "BroodWar.mpq".
- Mac users:
- If you own only StarCraft, copy "StarCraft Archive" from the StarCraft CD
to your StarCraft folder.
- If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "Brood War Archive" from the
StarCraft: Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder.
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Source:StarCraft Broodwar Patch Information
