About
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a 1994 real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment (with Interplay Productions handling European publishing), the first game in the Warcraft franchise. WinWar is a multiplatform (Windows, Linux, macOS) port of the DOS Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, completely rewritten from scratch using only the original game's art and level data; it requires a copy of the original game or its freely available demo version to supply the actual game data.
How it differs from the original
It uses only the original art and level data rather than the original code, and iOS support, while still present in the code, is non-functional and no longer officially supported.
Getting started
Players need a copy of Warcraft 1's game data (retail or the freely available demo version) copied into the project's Assets/Data folder before running the compiled executable.
History
Development began in 2003, originally in C++; the project switched to C# around 2008 and later moved to the MonoGame framework, with its most recent update bringing it to .NET 6 in 2022. Following Warcraft 1 Remastered's November 2024 release, the project was archived as no longer serving a purpose.
Known limitations
- platform: iOS code is still present but non-functional; iOS is no longer officially supported.