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First post, by Asliuf

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Hi all,

I'm trying to get Warcraft II (Tides of Darkness) to run on my PC, (windows 7.) I installed DOSBox and followed the instructions here: http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Setup_and_In … ation_of_DosBox . DOSBox then told me I could run warcraft by typing "War2," so thats what I did. This is the screen that came up:

http://s1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/Asli … =war2trying.png

then, I hit any key in that screen, and I'm booted back to DOSBox, with the text
"Bad Command or file name
Cracked by Hybrid 1995-12-04.... [HOSON is very tired right now.. 2:45 AM]"

Seems like a very irregular error message to me! Does anybody know how I can get this to work?? (also note, this is where I got the original warcraft file from: http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/warcraft-2.php) Or any other method of getting warcraft II to play on windows 7 😁

Thanks for your help.

Reply 2 of 4, by Asliuf

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@DosFreak,

I didn't mean to offend you or do anything wrong... I just assumed since the game was so old and blizzard isn't selling it anymore (I don't see it on the website, do you?) that they wouldn't care if I took an online copy. For that matter, I once owned the game on a CD, (it may or may not be lost, perhaps I'll go look for it) so I would think that legitimizes my download, as well. Sorry to cause a stir.

Reply 3 of 4, by wd

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I just assumed since the game was so old and blizzard isn't selling it anymore

It's still copyrighted (so disallowed to "just download" it) unless the copyright holder explicitly states otherwise.

Reply 4 of 4, by eL_PuSHeR

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Exactly.

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