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"Michael" <Conjure...@t-online.de> wrote in message 
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> Am 17.11.2013 03:41, schrieb tim.ma...@gmail.com:
>> 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?
>
> You probably need DOSBOX to get an old DOS game to run on a nowadays 
> operating system.
> http://www.dosbox.com/

But if they haven't played before it probably isn't worth the effort.

[ in general for 20 year old games  you once played ]
It used to run in probably 320x240 , maybe 640x480, maybe on a high end $500 
14 inch, on a 33 MHz pc with a 80 Megabyte drive and 2M of memory   and it 
was magnificent , compared to anything else that was around.

in your memory   The game is 7680x4320 100hz  64 bit with glowing golden 
pixels
                              well worth the $3000 a decent PC cost back 
then to run it ($7500 in todays money)
the reality             gremlins must have erased it and substituted this 
chunky scratchy clunky 8/16 bit dreck


The whole point of the graphics is to distract you until the mind control 
locks in, then it could just as well be alpha text and stick figures. So 
what will todays killer game and graphics on $3000 hardware look like in 
20years? :-)