In the early-mid 90s, when the default screen resolution for many DOS games was 320x200, Macintosh computers already used 640x480 by default. This is why some Mac ports of PC or console titles received updated graphics to match the increased resolution compared to the originals. The Mac version of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans also got a graphics upgrade, as is evident from these reviews (preserved by the Wayback Machine): However, apparently it is almost impossible to find any good quality screenshots of the Mac version on the net these days. And even though a was released by Blizzard, running it without a Mac is not possible. There exist a number of free, open source Macintosh emulators (a good overview can be found at ), however nearly all of them require a ROM image obtained from an actual Mac and a copy of MacOS to run. But recently I learned about an emulator (or rather, a compatibility layer) called which does not have these requirements. Originally a commercial product, Executor was released as freeware and open-sourced by the authors in 2008-2009.
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It can run Mac software for 68k machines and has versions for Windows, Linux and DOS. I have tried several versions of this programme, and they are all capable of running Mac Warcraft. The latest DOS release runs the demo without any noticeable issues, except one: nearly all palettes are not displayed properly, as the game uses the Mac system palette instead. This was a really serious issue, but thankfully Hallfiry wrote a Warcraft data extractor which supports the Mac demo (found ). With it, I was able to get the original palettes, and after some experimentation convert them into a usable JASC format (attached to this post).
That way, screenshots taken with the DOS version of Executor in DOSBox can be fixed to display the proper colours. Here's a small screenshot gallery of the Mac demo (a DOS version screenshot is included for comparison). I have a CD version but I don't think it's a highbrid, one of my friends gave it to me, stating he'd probably never play again.
I looked at him like he was crazy. Warcraft 1 was great.
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Recently I've been reflecting a lot on old school gaming, and there's just something I really like about it. Well lots I really like about it. If I had the possibility I'd probably collect all sorts of old games like this, but I can't. I wonder if there's a list somewhere of all the MAC games ever released, 'cause they don't have much as far as I know. Happy Mac gamers (the few they are) got to play warcraft:P.
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I have tried several versions of this programme, and they are all capable of running Mac Warcraft. The latest DOS release runs the demo without any noticeable issues, except one: nearly all palettes are not displayed properly, as the game uses the Mac system palette instead. This was a really serious issue, but thankfully Hallfiry wrote a Warcraft data extractor which supports the Mac demo (found ). With it, I was able to get the original palettes, and after some experimentation convert them into a usable JASC format (attached to this post).
That way, screenshots taken with the DOS version of Executor in DOSBox can be fixed to display the proper colours. Here's a small screenshot gallery of the Mac demo (a DOS version screenshot is included for comparison): Could you upload this pallete fix somewhere, i wished to fix retail MacOS version of the game to play under Dosbox/Executor. Could you upload this pallete fix somewhere, i wished to fix retail MacOS version of the game to play under Dosbox/Executor This fix does nothing in-game, it can be only used to fix the palette in screenshots that you take in DOSBox running Executor. The colours in the game are still all messed up. However, Executor is open source software and I really hope someone may eventually tweak the code to produce a version that will run the Mac versions of Warcraft without any errors like the wrong palette.
BTW, you can use the Windows version of Executor for better performance but then you won't be able to take screenshots that can be corrected for the proper palette.