I heard a lot of good things about Blackthorne.

Never heard of it, might give it a whirl though

It's running in a modified and stripped-down DOSBox build; you can tell by the dosbox.conf file in the installation directory (and the source code that is included).

If the rumors mentioned about Lost Vikings and Rock n' Roll Racing are true, Lost Vikings will likely also be the DOS version (but I don't know how they'd do Rock n' Roll Racing, since that was only on SNES and Genesis - I suppose either version is possible).

Kinda surprising they aren't trying to sell them at $14.99 each.

Nice!

Hm, here's hoping that they might consider giving the same treatment to Warcraft 1 or maybe the original Diablo.

This is a risky strategy, if people who started playing Blizzard games with WoW realize how good the games used to be, Blizzard is going to be in trouble.

I really hope they do the Lost Vikings.

Yeah, I noticed the conf file also. It is running very smoothly, though, and since the source code is there people can play around with 'proper' dosbox if there is any problems. It is a nice release.

Another though, since it is under the new heading "Blizzard Classics", and it does even create a new root directory (if you do not change it) called "Blizzard Classics", it is an intentation that more Blizzard classic games are coming. Whether those games are free or not, it does not matter. I would welcome them all and I would gladly pay for them also. Especially if the all get the same treatment Blackthorn seems to have got.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment#Games)

Awesome! Thanks for the information, amok.

Screw how good, if they realize they can play something without having to go online to buy decent equipment THEN Blizzard will be in trouble.

I used to have Blackthorne on disc in the mid to late 90's. Think I got it with the purchase of my first pc (or rather, the first pc my parents got me). Oh the days...at least here they used to hand out lots of games with a purchase of a pc. I remember having at least Warcraft and Descent too.

Isnt Blizzard already in trouble after Diablo 3?

Rock & Roll Racing would be amazing, but I'm skeptical since it was a console-only title.

I already have Diablo 1 on Disc :)

But I look forward to Warcraft 1 and 2 if they ever do it.

I don't know. I refuse to play anything newer than D2 which I still play constantly.

If they're giving it away for free, I can't imagine they'd waste any time implementing and maintaining DRM. Despite being very draconian with their newer titles, Blizzard has been very good about DRM with regards to their back-catalog.

Warcraft I was released freeware on the Blizzard website many years ago, but it was taken down shortly afterwards. I grabbed my stand-alone copy at the time, and don't know exactly what the window of availability was. I'd imagine if they're putting up the rest of their back-catalog that WC1 will return.