Found a very old and rare War2 mod!!! Need help!!

[Killrogg Deadeye]

I dubt there are people old enough to remember that during late 90's there were some total conversions for Warcraft 2. the most famous were Rituals Of Rebirth, Weapons of our Warfare, Elfcraft, Deathcraft: twilight of the demons and some minors. Now these conversions are totally dead and forgotten, and removed from web....but I've been able to find Weapons of our Warfare!!! It requires the original DOS version + Warcraft 2 beyond the dark portal (doesn't work on B.Net). I have the dowloaded mod, but i can't run it since I have Windows 7 64 bit. Can someone help me? For those who are intersted, I can send the file. If somebody finds other of this forgotten War2 mods, please, drop me a PM

 

[Mechanical Man]

That would be awesome to share. Did you try dosbox?

 

[Killrogg Deadeye]

Yes, but it tells me it's a windows exe. Anyway I'm not good with DosBox. My goal is to replay this mod, and try to port it to Warcraft 2 B.Net Edition. I would like to to retrieve somewhere also Rituals of Rebirth (some gfx of that mod were reused for a Starcraft 1 mod) , but the chance is very very low. Anyway my sister got Windows XP on her notebook, when she returns from work I'll try on her computer. Afterall the file i need to open should be a self extracting archive. And if things go well, then I'll make this marvel available to everyone.

 

[Killrogg Deadeye]

BINGO!!! I was able to make it work!!! If moderators allow me to upload the cracked game with the mod, I'll upload it on some file hosting sites (Warcraft 2 + expansion set on DOS edition are freeware softwares and are not supported by Blizzard anymore). For those intersted, I can also post screenshots. Finally! Maybe we can port it to War3 someday

 

[Mechanical Man]

Yes, I'm interested in screenshots.

But how you found it, I searched the whole internet, yet I'm not able to find it. I'm dumb or what?

EDIT: Nope, it can't be found anywhere. I don't believe you. Pics or tits or it didn't happen.

 

[Killrogg Deadeye]

I've searched with google cache, or something similar. Copied the original link that's broken on google and used the copy cache. It took me hours to make it works. Tomorrow I'll post screenshots. This replaces both campaigns of Tides of Darkness, change some icons, effects (elven rangers with fire arrows, turrets with death knight attacks and other stuff), new heroes, 2 new tilesets (desert and wetlands) and 14 new missions for every race.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

That is awesome, heh I'll try finding more too

 

[Mechanical Man]

I tried everything, I used wayback machine for dead links I found, but no luck, it can't be found. These dead links found:

http://warcraft.warzone.com/

http://www.toptown.com/DORMS/pudman/homepage.htm

http://mordor.netlink.ch/user/cartho/warcraft/MacWeapons099.hqx

 

[Killrogg Deadeye]

Uploading now to mediafire How nostalgic I am. I remember there was even a total conversion that added a third race: the drows, and implemented new features like caves (with horrible Warcraft 1 tileset eheheh). Don't remember the name, but even If i remember, that would be impossible to find. When is uploaded I'll send you a link and have fun

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Heh, I'll be here waiting

 

[Killrogg Deadeye]

Pm sent to you Miss Foxy. For those intersted to see some units that were in Rituals of Rebirth, this old Starcraft 1 mod recycled many of these units. Beholder, Troll Spearthrower, Dwarven Warrior, Undead Wraith, Ogre Spirit, Elven Priest, Human Cannon, Air Elemental, Efreeti, Necrolyte etc... were gfx of this forgotten and dead War2 mod

http://www.staredit.net/topic/7121/

 

[Mechanical Man]

Tried weapons of our warfare, pretty lame if you ask me, it just changes maps and gives AI better starting position and more units, I wouldn't call this improvement of AI if you give more units to computer, while you take away all player's military units.

 

[Killrogg Deadeye]

Anyway is the only available campaign for Warcraft 2. Other projects faded into depths of the web. There were better mods (Rituals of Rebirth was killer!) but this in my opinion is something worthy. Have you played the entire campaign?

 

[Mechanical Man]

No, because you barely build a barracks and they already rush you with at least 3 footmen D:

 

[Killrogg Deadeye]

Which mission are you playing? If are available, build tons of towers, barracks is secondary to towers when they rush early in game

 

[Mechanical Man]

First two missions D:

 

[Killrogg Deadeye]

Human or orcs? Second mission of orc campaign is really hard. Their footman and archer are full upgraded when you can't even build a blacksmith. Heroes are much more powerful than in original Warcraft 2 (if you play orc, you'll see what I mean when you encounter Noremac, an undead paladin)