Warcraft III Autorefresh

If you are a Warcraft III player, you probably get frustrated by having to refresh every slot manually in OS X while windows users simply run an auto-refresh bot that does this for them. There is a way to set up your Mac to do the same.

First, make sure you have X11 installed. Just do a search for X11 in spotlight, or find it under Applications/Utilities. It is a part of OSX, and if it is not installed, simply install if from your OSX disk, or from the disk that came with your computer.

Once you have that installed, download and extract this bot and download the mono framework.

Install the mono framework you downloaded.

Now open Terminal (Applications/Utilities) and type, without any of the quotes:

"cp "(put a space after cp) and then after the space drag WarcraftIIIAutoRefresh.exe (in the folder of the bot) into the terminal window, and type " .autoref.exe" (remember the space before .autoref.exe)

Hit enter.

Now open X11, go to the Application Menu, and choose "Customize"

Click the "Add Item" button

In the new blank item that comes up, double click in the space for name, and enter what you want the function to be called. I used "AutoRefresh", but you can name it whatever you want.

Double click in the command field, and enter "mono .autoref.exe" (remember the space between mono and .autoref.exe)

Hit the done button and you're all set.

When you want to run this, open X11, go to the Application Menu, and select "AutoRefresh", or whatever you named it. This will run the bot and fix your Warcrafting troubles. Let me know how it works for you.

Virtual Box Update

It has come to my attention that the new version of VirtualBox now supports 3D acceleration. I have not been able to personally try it, but I will post back reviewing the performance, ease of use, etc as soon as I get around to trying it out. In the meantime, if any of you have used it, please let me know what you think.

If it runs good, then it means there will really be no reason whatsoever to pay for Fusion or Parallels, because VirtualBox will be able to do everything the other 2 titles can.