Too lazy to fix up the game for modern systems?

Yes, lazy. It's not like they can't get enough money to fund this. Just put a limited edition pet thing on the store, bam. There's your funding.

Blizzard are working on bringing their legacy and classic games in their new desktop app, this was already confirmed at last year's BlizzCon. However, only a few people are working on this as a side project, so it would probably take a long time.

Blizzard doesn't even allow Steam to sell Diablo for them and Steam is the perfect solution for greedy and paranoid companies like Blizzard. The answer to your question is, there is a 1 out of 1000000000000000000000 chance, Diablo will appear here.

Yeah, that's because someone at Microsoft seems to be a Blizzard fanboy. There's a tiny bunch of games that have a special entry in Windows 7's registry by default, that makes them run without the color corruption that normally pretty much all games using DirectDraw suffer from. Another game included on the list is StarCraft (along with several really obscure and mediocre games that nobody remembers anymore). And oddly enough Microsoft didn't seem to provide any instructions how to apply that fix to other titles (or other versions of the supported ones) so it was up to the gaming community to find that out. It's really weird.

I would love for Diablo classic to come to GOG, as it was the only cRPG that I heavily got involved with in its online competitive & social element, which were the bnet-hosted chat-rooms and 4-player co-op games at the time. Guilds, ladders, the whole bit. Really trailblazing that way, and great fun for a young, depressed teenager with few other outlets.

Foolishly, I let my legitimate, bought-and-paid-for disc copies of Diablo & Hellfire get thrown away or otherwise lost years back after I'd put them to rest after getting burned out on the game. But of course, nostalgia strikes, and lo, you couldn't conceive it at the time you thought you were just shorning yourself of excess belongings; books, music, movies, games you had no further use for or interest in.

Blizzard would make a tidy sum, I'm sure, re-selling Diablo on DD channels for a certain demographic of gamer, of which I fall squarely in. I doubt classic Diablo/Starcraft is of much interest to the generation of gamer born in the 90s (and even later) anyway.

Of course, maintaining control is in some cases more of a corporate imperative than any sensible alternative. Even if it means letting one's back-catalog wither on the vine.

That's new. I looked into the issue a while ago and all I could find were posts in communities dedicated to different games suffering from color corruption in Windows 7, the earliest sources I found suggested that someone from the StarCraft community had to find out how the thing works when it turned out that the default fix only works with a specific version, neither with older nor newer ones. It seemed that people had to find out everything by themselves by digging around in the registry. I haven't found a single official source from Microsoft that explains the fix. Also from what I've seen people only knew how to determine one of the two values you have to enter, not the other one (which is usually 00 00 08 00 or something but not always), although that may have changed by now.

You can buy Diablo 1 at amazon (boxed version).
I was lucky to find it for € 2.99 (new) in a sale just a few months ago.

Considering that this is something that developers work with, don't expect to find info on consumer-related places. Search MSDN or use developer channels to contact them for such things if you cannot find what you're looking for at MSDN.

Well that's not too bad. Some of the items in the Diablo games had a lower chance to drop. :D

You must be talking about Diablo III. In Diablo III, you have a better chance of winning the lottery in real life than getting a decent item.

No chance at all. Blizzard is an institution at this point and as such they can play however they want. They don't need to negotiate with anybody. They could literally crap all over every hard copy of any Diablo game, and their fans would gobble it up and wipe their shitty faces off with a napkin.

I'm incluned to agree, but we said the exact same thing about EA around 4 years ago and we managed to get games from them. So really, who knows.

Could become a freeware altogether, nobody knows... it's been a long ass time anyway.

I'd buy it if it came here :)