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I have the 1996 Macintosh version of 'Warcraft: Orcs & Humans'. The game was released on a so-called hybrid disc which contains the Macintosh version of the game. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. Game/Software not available: This software has been removed due to a DMCA takedown request by Blizzard Entertainment. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. Game/Software not available: This software has been removed due to a DMCA takedown request by Blizzard Entertainment.

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.: 23 November 1994.: 1995 Mode(s), Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a (RTS), developed by and published by Blizzard and. The version was released on 23 November 1994 and the version in early 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the game won three awards and was a finalist for three others. There was a CD re-release, namely version 1.21 (CD version), that didn't have the word-from-the-user-manual copy protection of prior versions. The sequel, became the main rival to ' series, and this competition fostered an RTS boom in the mid to late 1990s. Although Warcraft: Orcs & Humans was not the first RTS title to offer games, Blizzard's game persuaded a wider audience that multiplayer facilities were essential for future RTS titles.

The game introduced innovations in mission design and gameplay elements, which were adopted by other RTS developers. Blizzard's main emphases in these games were on skillful management of relatively small forces and on development of characterization and storyline within and between games played in the same universe. Contents. Gameplay Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a (RTS). The player takes the role of either the Human inhabitants of, or the invading.

In the single player campaign mode the player works through a series of missions, the objective of which varies, but usually involves building a small town, harvesting resources, building an army and then leading it to victory. In multiplayer games, the objective is always to destroy the enemy players' forces. Some scenarios are complicated by the presence of, but sometimes these monsters can be used as troops. The game plays in a medieval setting with fantasy elements. Both sides have and, and also. Modes Warcraft: Orcs & Humans's gameplay expands the 'build base, build army, destroy enemy' paradigm to include other modes of game play. These include several new mission types, such as conquering rebels of the player's race, rescuing and rebuilding besieged towns, rescuing friendly forces from an enemy camp and then destroying the main enemy base, and limited-forces missions, in which neither side can make further units, and making efficient use of one's platoon is a key strategy element.

In one mission, the player has to kill the Orc chief's daughter. The game also allows two players to compete in contests by or, and enables gamers with the and version to play each other. Multiplayer and AI skirmishes that are not part of campaigns were supported by a generator. The game also allowed to be made. Economy and power Warcraft requires players to collect resources, and to produce buildings and units in order to defeat an opponent in combat. Non-combatant deliver the resources to the Town Center from mines, from which gold is dug, and forests, where wood is chopped.

As both are limited resources which become exhausted during the game, players must collect them efficiently, and also retain forests as defensive walls in the early game when combat forces are small. The lower-level buildings for Humans and Orcs have the same functions, but different sprites. The Town Hall stores resources and produces units that collect resources and construct buildings. Each Farm provides food for up to four units, and additional units cannot be produced until enough Farms are built. The produces all non-magical combat units, including, mounted, and siege units.

However all except the most basic also need assistance from other buildings, some of which can also upgrade units. Each side can construct two types of magical buildings, each of which produces one type of and researches more advanced spells for that type. These advanced buildings can be constructed only with assistance from other buildings. The Human Cleric and Orc Necrolyte can both defend themselves by magic and also see distant parts of the territory for short periods. The Cleric's other spells are protective, healing the injured and making troops invisible, while the Necrolyte as troops and can make other units temporarily invulnerable, at the cost of severely damaging them when the spell dissipates.

The Human Conjurer and Orc Warlock have energy blasts, wider-range destruction spells and the ability to summon small, venomous monsters. The Conjurer can summon a water, while the Warlock can summon a demonic melee unit. User interface. Orcs (red) attack a Human town and its defenders (blue). The flaming building is close to collapse, and the burnt ground to its left is the remains of a razed building.

The numbers across the top are the player's reserves of lumber and gold. The unit marked with a light green box is currently selected, and its details appear in the lower left panel. The upper left panel is the, which shows all the territory fought over, mostly not yet discovered by the player, and enables the player to select a part of the territory to view.

The main screen has three areas: the largest, to the right, is the part of the territory on which the player is currently operating; the top left is the; and, if a building or unit(s) is selected, the bottom left shows their status and any upgrades and the actions that can be performed. The status details include a building's or unit's health, including its progress if being constructed, and any upgrades the object has completed. The Menu control, at the very bottom on the left, provides access to save game, load game and other menu functions.

Initially most of the main map and minimap are blacked out, but the visible area expands as the player's units explore the map. The mini-map shows a summary of the whole territory, with green dots for the player's buildings and units and red dots for enemy ones. The player can click in the main map or the minimap to scroll the main map around the territory. All functions can be invoked by the mouse. Keys can also invoke the game setup, some of the menu options and some gameplay functions including scrolling and pausing the game. Players can select single units by clicking, and groups of up to four by shift-clicking. To move units, players can shift the mouse to select units on the main map, move to the unit menu to select an action, and then back to the main map or minimap to specify the target area; but can eliminate the middle mouse action in this cycle.

Storyline The Orcs originated from another world, where the orcs, once a peaceful race, became bloodthirsty from the blood of a pitlord. However, their remained aloof, devoting their time to the research of magic. The Warlocks noticed a rift between the dimensions and, after many years, opened a small portal to another world. One Warlock explored and found a region, whose Human inhabitants called 'Azeroth', from which the Warlock returned with strange plants as evidence of his discovery. The Orcs enlarged the portal until they could transport seven warriors, who massacred a Human village. The raiding party brought back samples of good food and fine worksmanship, and a report that the Humans were defenseless.

The Orcs' raiding parties grew larger and bolder, until they assaulted Azeroth's principal castle. However, the Humans had been training warriors of their own, especially the mounted, heavily armed Knights. These, assisted by Human Sorcerers, gradually forced the Orcs to retreat through the portal, which the Humans had not discovered. For the next fifteen years, one faction of Orcs demanded that the portal be closed. However a chief of exceptional cunning realized that the Humans, although out-numbered, had prevailed through the use of superior tactics, organization, and by magic. He united the clans, imposed discipline on their army and sought new magics from the Warlocks and. Their combined forces were ready to overthrow the Humans.

Development and publication While the earliest real-time strategy games appeared in the 1980s, and others followed in the early 1990s, 's, released for DOS in 1992, established the pattern of modern RTS games. Was surprised that no further RTS titles appeared in 1993 and early 1994 – although in fact Westwood had quietly been working on since the completion of Dune II. To take advantage of the lull in RTS releases, Blizzard produced Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. According to Bob Fitch, the theme for Warcraft had been inspired by taking the vikings of and combining with masses of creatures under their automated control similar to, with the multiplayer element of having these opposing masses of vikings meet up and fight each other. While later were famous for complex stories presented lavishly, the first member of the series had no script and was improvised in the recording studio by producer.

The contract composer Gregory Alper wrote music that Blizzard staff found reminiscent of 's. Demos in summer 1994 whetted appetites for the completed game, released for in November 1994 and for the in 1996.

The game was published by Blizzard in North America and by in Europe, and Sold-Out Software republished the MS-DOS version in March 2002. Reception Reception Review scores Publication Score A- Mac Gamer 92% (MAC) (MAC) 4.0 Just Games Retro 78% Warcraft: Orcs & Humans became, at the time, by far the company's greatest success to date, and for the first time made the company's finances secure. In November 1995 reported that the game ranked 19th of the top 20 CDs across all categories. The game was released in November 1994. Although reviews did not appear until months later, in Dragon Paul Murphy described the game as 'great fun – absorbing and colorful,' and Scott Love praised its solid strategy, simple interface and fantasy theme. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans won ’s Editors' Choice Award, Computer Life’s Critics' Pick and the Innovations Award at the Consumer Electronics Show, Winter 1995. It was a finalist for ’s Premier award, PC Gamer’s Strategy Game of the Year and the 's Best Strategy award.

Love of MacWEEK found the play hard work, as often two or three of the gamer's units would attack without orders, while the rest still did nothing, and buildings could also lie idle without orders. In a retrospective review, the J-Man of Just Games Retro said the game is overly slow, as the player must produce a few basic buildings and peasants in order to gather resources, and then start building combat units, while the enemy starts with more buildings and the ability to immediately send out offensive units to undo the player's efforts.

He also criticized that the basic units of the two sides are essentially identical and that the interface is clunky, but praised the resource system and effective enemy AI. GameSpot 's retrospective on real-time strategy history said the game's was unintelligent and predictable, and Scott Love said a difficulty setting would have increased the game's longevity. Reviewers found the poor. Both Scott Love and the J-Man said the game runs very slowly during large battles. Some reviewers said the stereo sound helped gamers to locate events that occurred outside the current viewport. Bailey of 1UP liked units' speech effects, especially in response to repeated clicks, while Scott Love and the J-Man found this monotonous.

’s review of the Mac version complained that Warcraft: Orcs & Humans’s graphics, which were ported from the version's, did not exploit the Macintosh's superior. However, Game Revolution and Mac Gamer agreed that visual shortcomings did not reduce Mac gamers' enjoyment of the engrossing gameplay. Both also complained that the Macintosh was released about a year later than the DOS version. In contrast, a reviewer for, while not overlooking the fact that Warcraft II was already out by the time the Macintosh version was released, made no criticism on this point, and asserted that 'Amazingly easy to pick up and play, Warcraft still manages to offer enough challenge to keep gaming veterans happy for hour after hour.

Completed by sharp graphics, and good voice acting, the only thing holding this game back at all is its somewhat limited play options.' Legacy Predecessors and innovations The first RTS game was developed in the 1970s on a, and RTS for home computers appeared in the early 1980s., released in 1992, established conventions that most subsequent RTS games followed, including the 'collect resources, build base and army, destroy opponents' pattern. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, two years later, was the next well-known RTS game, and introduced new types of missions, including conquering rebels of the player's race and limited-forces missions, in which neither side could make further units. It also included skirmishes which were single-player games that were not part of a larger campaign. To support multiplayer and skirmishes, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans used a generator, a feature previously seen in the game. In 1995 Westwood's RTS series adopted the use of non-standard mission types and skirmishes, and 's included these features and a random map generator in 1997., released in 1988 for DOS and the, was the first RTS with games by means of.

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, which allow two gamers to compete by or, persuaded a wider audience that multiplayer competition was much more challenging than contests against the (AI), and made multiplayer facilities essential for future RTS titles., released in 1991 for DOS, and, had a medieval theme, with and, and allowed gamers to resolve combat automatically or in a RTS-type style. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans was the first typical RTS to be presented in a medieval setting, and its units included as well as melee and ranged units. Sequels The success of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans motivated Blizzard to publish a sequel, in December 1995, and an, in 1996. In autumn 1995 Westwood had released, and the competition between these two games popularized the RTS genre and defined the genre. Blizzard's new game's enhancements included: naval and air units, supported by new buildings and a new resource, oil; higher-resolution artwork rendered in graphics; improved sound, including additional responses from units; a much better AI; and new mechanisms such as patroling (moving continuously along a route for surveillance or defense). A further generation of the Warcraft: Orcs & Humans lineage, called, was released in July 2002, and gained instant and enduring acclaim with both critics and players. In April 1998, Blizzard released, an RTS with the concepts and mechanisms of Warcraft but an interplanetary setting and three totally different races.

Starcraft and its expansion were well received by critics and became very successful., released in North America in November 2004 and in Europe in February 2005, was Blizzard's first attempt at a, and used the universe of the Warcraft RTS games, including characters that first appeared in Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. WoW was praised highly by critics, was the most popular MMORPG in 2008, and in 2007 became the most profitable video game ever created. Beyond video games, the extended includes, books, and comics. Blizzard style of RTS games Warcraft: Orcs & Humans was a moderate critical and commercial success, and laid the ground for Blizzard's style of RTS, in which personality was a distinctive element. The increasingly humorous responses to clicking a unit repeatedly became a trademark of the company.

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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is the real-time fantasy strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment that quickly became a best seller. Warcraft has not only become a classic, but is has set new standards for multiplayer games.

Set in the mythic kingdom of Azeroth, players are given the task of maintaining a thriving economy while building a war machine with which to destroy the enemy. By playing either the Humans or the Orcs in this saga, two separate story lines evolve with 12 scenarios per side telling the tale of the battle for Azeroth. From swords to sorcery, all the elements of classic fantasy are here to explore: rich forests, dark dungeons and bubbling swamps await the stalwart troops amassed to fight for dominance. Command many unique armies and creatures including Knights, Archers, Clerics, Warlocks, Daemons, Elementals, and the Dead. The multiplayer aspects of the game bring Warcraft to a new level of excitement.Challenge another player on over 20 custom maps and determine who among you is the supreme warlord. Head to head play is supported over modem, serial link, and IPX networks, and works cross-platform with both the IBM-PC and Macintosh versions.

I played and successfully defeated the first 2 stages of this demo right now. The third one looks absurdly hard to even start doing something with all those enemies already attacking you like hell. I remember that I had this same impression when I was a kid and played this demo for the first time. I only did not remember any more about it. This was an extremely nice experience to play Warcraft 1 again.

(Oh, by the way. I also played a lot the original full version back when I was a kid. It was great!).

I even showed this demo to a friend's little son who is pretty much addicted to Minecraft and the boy got really hooked to Warcraft. It was nice to see the game still had got an appeal even for the new generation:-).