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<tim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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I have the original disk of the game I found in one of my father's old 
programming books. I am eager to try it out (I have never played any 
warcraft games in my life, was going to mark this as my first.), however 
whenever I open the game from DOS, the screen just shows a bunch of crash 
results. The disk is somewhat beat up a bit, but only one scratch. What do I 
do?

She (probably) no can take it Mon Kapitain , or you can try and jump through 
a lot of hoops to maybe get it working.
A lot of older games have clocking, memory and video problems with newer PCs
   it is running on a machine 1000 times faster, usually a bucket load of 
things happen in the wrong timing order, or the memory management is just 
not supported
And just to clarify that World of Warcraft=WOW=war-crack is the online game 
based on the Warcraft stand-alone games.
If you want WOW you can play the first 20 levels free, but no auction house 
or trading,
    (gratuitous car analogy) it has no windscreen, only 3 tyres, and only 
first gear
just download from Blizzard
and kiss your life away
https://us.battle.net/account/creation/wow/signup/
there are different servers for US and EU
[ this may be redundant information, but better too much than not enough ]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-10-want-to-play-the-old-warcraft-rts-games-on-a-modern-computer
We're fans of Warcraft 1, Warcraft 2 and Warcraft 3, and we'd love to replay 
those games for sure."

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans launched in November 1994 on PC, and launched the 
universe that eventually spawned the World of Warcraft MMO. Warcraft 2: 
Tides of Darkness launched a year later in December 1995, again on PC. These 
games are available to play on modern PCs, but require nifty workarounds.

Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos (July 2002) and its expansion The Frozen Throne 
(July 2003) are available to buy and do work on modern PCs.