Warcraft: Orcs and Humans

Last weekend I felt like seeing how the Warcraft franchise started. Unfortunately, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans is so old, you literally cannot buy it new any more. Luckily, after a bit of googleing, I found a website that hosts torrents of games that are no longer sold or supported by the developers any more: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/422/

Once I had downloaded this, though, I hit a snag. Warcraft: Orcs and Humans was made a whol year before the first Windows operating system came out. This made it impossible to run on a PC like mine, with Windows 7. Luckily, some more googleing found me an emulator for M-DOS: http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

However, being such an old system, this required a decent amount of setting up to make work. Luckily I found a guide: http://www.glennsguides.com/2008/04/warcraft-orcs-and-humans-pc-game-free.html

After all this effort, I played the game for about 20 minuits, realised exactly how much had been improved in the newer Warcraft RTS games, and went back to playing Warcraft Three. Ah well, setting it all up was good fun at least.