Prometheus
2013-02-25 22:14:51
http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/Accessing_Old_School_RuneScape_on_the_Client
For Windows OS:
1. Right click the Windows icon (usually in the bottom left corner) and select Open Windows Explorer.
2. Browse to C:\Users\{user}\jagexcache\jagexlauncher\
{user} is the name of the account that actually did the downloadable client install.
3. Copy the runescape folder, and call it oldschool
4. Go into the oldschool folder, and rename runescape.prm to oldschool.prm (NOTE: if you don't have file extensions set as visible, you will see "runescape" rather than "runescape.prm" as the file - you'll need to just rename it to "oldschool", as the file extension will then stay the same)
5. Right click the oldschool.prm file and either select 'edit' or 'open with'.
If you need to select open with chose any text editor like Notepad or Write.
6. When the file opens find the line that says -Dcom.jagex.config=http://www.runescape.com/k=3/l=$(Language:0)/jav_config.ws and change it to say -Dcom.jagex.config=http://oldschool.runescape.com/jav_config.ws
Language:0 may be :1 :2 etc. This is redundant for oldschool servers as they are English only.
7. Save the file.
8. Copy your shortcut to the downloadable client to a new one, called Old School RuneScape, or similar
9. Edit the new shortcut so that where it says "JagexLauncher.exe runescape" it now says "JagexLauncher.exe oldschool"
10. Open the downloadable client using the new link to get the old school game, or your old link to get the main game!
For Mac OS:
1. In Finder click on Applications.
2. Right click on the RuneScape icon.
3. Select ‘Show Package Contents’.
4. Double click on the folder ‘Contents’.
5. Double click on the file Info.plist
6. In the Info.plist file look for the line <string>http://www.runescape.com/k=3/l=$(Language:0)/jav_config.ws</string> and change it to say <string>http://oldschool.runescape.com/jav_config.ws </string>
Language:0 may be :1 :2 etc. This is redundant for oldschool servers as they are English only.
7. Save the file.
8. Open the downloadable client as you normally would.
Hope this helps people who don't like playing on the browser :)