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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 6095366" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>I would have to disagree with you on compatibility.</p><p></p><p>The posting of that video DOES bring on numerous questions. The logic of piracy is as follows.</p><p></p><p>Diablo had 3 character classes, which were the Fighter, the Rogue, and the Sorcerer. It was published by Blizzard. IT had graphical distortions on Win7 that were able to be overcome by changing the color palette after starting the game. It's exe does not work with Win8 (all known issues).</p><p></p><p>The download of Diablo may work on Win8, I haven't given it a shot. I was not aware that they offered a free d/l if you bought the original Diablo, but as you did not need a key or anything to install the original, I'm not certain if there would be a way to verify that. I have not seen a d/l of Diablo itself from blizzard, but I have seen that they offer the starcraft series (but not Warcraft I or II from what I have seen, maybe its' with their origianl Diablo d/l which I also haven't seen). I suspect that they do not offer those three because of the known issues with Win7 and known issues with them not running on Win8. The games that do run, they offer. </p><p></p><p>There was an official expansion/mod for Diablo which was called HELLFIRE. The game Hellfire by Sierra DOES have a working exe. Not that this is Sierra's exe...not the Diablo exe. Hellfire came with the Monk class. It also allowed the Bard and Barbarian if you input the right command line into the game (which also means, that the Barbarian is the only Diablo class thus far in all three games in the series). Note the Video is NOT really of diablo, but of Hellfire, and as stated, Hellfire's exe currently DOES appear to work on Win8. I do not consider Hellfire as a workaround for running the original Diablo.</p><p></p><p>However, there are those who utilize this workaround to not only PIRATE hellfire, but also utilize that piracy as a workaround.</p><p></p><p>There is a certain mod you posted, which I am happy with your statements it is not you. The full mod steals the assets put out by Sierrra and incorporates them into the mod without permission. This enables those who do not get Hellfire or the expansion to be able to play with those assets.</p><p>It is possible that there are those who download the mod which is truly only a mod, but most seem to get the full mod with the illegal additions of portions which in my books makes it piracy.</p><p></p><p>Hence my statement. </p><p></p><p>We will have to disagree on the compatibility portion however, I'm just testing it out for our business, and the games are the items I think people will understand as they are more common than many of the items that I would bring up here with the programming we utilize at work.</p><p></p><p>We'll see where it goes with the next SP's for Win8, but unless compatibility improves, we aren't going to blow the budget nor the IT hours trying to get things to work which MS seems intent on blocking, especially when we can get them to run on an Apple or Mac type, or even perhaps transfer over to Ipads with a similar program for cheaper (other ideas we are exploring). It could also be the MS curse at work, where every other OS is a stinker...in which case we'll probably skip 8 and go with whatever OS comes out next.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 6095366, member: 4348"] I would have to disagree with you on compatibility. The posting of that video DOES bring on numerous questions. The logic of piracy is as follows. Diablo had 3 character classes, which were the Fighter, the Rogue, and the Sorcerer. It was published by Blizzard. IT had graphical distortions on Win7 that were able to be overcome by changing the color palette after starting the game. It's exe does not work with Win8 (all known issues). The download of Diablo may work on Win8, I haven't given it a shot. I was not aware that they offered a free d/l if you bought the original Diablo, but as you did not need a key or anything to install the original, I'm not certain if there would be a way to verify that. I have not seen a d/l of Diablo itself from blizzard, but I have seen that they offer the starcraft series (but not Warcraft I or II from what I have seen, maybe its' with their origianl Diablo d/l which I also haven't seen). I suspect that they do not offer those three because of the known issues with Win7 and known issues with them not running on Win8. The games that do run, they offer. There was an official expansion/mod for Diablo which was called HELLFIRE. The game Hellfire by Sierra DOES have a working exe. Not that this is Sierra's exe...not the Diablo exe. Hellfire came with the Monk class. It also allowed the Bard and Barbarian if you input the right command line into the game (which also means, that the Barbarian is the only Diablo class thus far in all three games in the series). Note the Video is NOT really of diablo, but of Hellfire, and as stated, Hellfire's exe currently DOES appear to work on Win8. I do not consider Hellfire as a workaround for running the original Diablo. However, there are those who utilize this workaround to not only PIRATE hellfire, but also utilize that piracy as a workaround. There is a certain mod you posted, which I am happy with your statements it is not you. The full mod steals the assets put out by Sierrra and incorporates them into the mod without permission. This enables those who do not get Hellfire or the expansion to be able to play with those assets. It is possible that there are those who download the mod which is truly only a mod, but most seem to get the full mod with the illegal additions of portions which in my books makes it piracy. Hence my statement. We will have to disagree on the compatibility portion however, I'm just testing it out for our business, and the games are the items I think people will understand as they are more common than many of the items that I would bring up here with the programming we utilize at work. We'll see where it goes with the next SP's for Win8, but unless compatibility improves, we aren't going to blow the budget nor the IT hours trying to get things to work which MS seems intent on blocking, especially when we can get them to run on an Apple or Mac type, or even perhaps transfer over to Ipads with a similar program for cheaper (other ideas we are exploring). It could also be the MS curse at work, where every other OS is a stinker...in which case we'll probably skip 8 and go with whatever OS comes out next. [/QUOTE]
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