Posted April 16, 2019
While Blizzard never released any development tools for Warcraft besides the unit stats editor, a certain BJ Pollard reverse-engineered the map format and in 1995 wrote and made public an editor that allowed to create user maps for the game. These would be loaded a simple saved game files and distributed as such.
There were quite a few levels created with this tool, albeit not as many as Warcraft II PUDs. Some were even published on several PC Gamer coverdisks alongside Doom WADs and other user-created content. However now these levels are very hard to find. By digging the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, I was able to find a webpage from the late 90s which contains a large selection of the maps, including those found on PC Gamer disks:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117000154/http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/1334/warcraft.html
As far as I can tell, this is the most complete collection of the files with intact downloads. A few more can be found here (alongside duplicates from the first page repacked in ARJ):
http://web.archive.org/web/19990503093125/http://members.aol.com/heiska/ewc1.html
There are also four scenarios by Kenny Chong:
http://www.oocities.org/tokyo/2077/warcraft.html
Several more are mentioned on this page but sadly the downloads were not preserved by the Wayback Machine:
[url=http://web.archive.org/web/19980212142057/http://panesu.esu14.k12.ne.us/~dpelster/game/levels.html]http://web.archive.org/web/19980212142057/http://panesu.esu14.k12.ne.us/~dpelster/game/levels.html[/url]
NOTE: The URL parser here seems to have trouble with Wayback Machine links so please copy them and paste in your browser's address line manually.
There were quite a few levels created with this tool, albeit not as many as Warcraft II PUDs. Some were even published on several PC Gamer coverdisks alongside Doom WADs and other user-created content. However now these levels are very hard to find. By digging the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, I was able to find a webpage from the late 90s which contains a large selection of the maps, including those found on PC Gamer disks:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117000154/http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/1334/warcraft.html
As far as I can tell, this is the most complete collection of the files with intact downloads. A few more can be found here (alongside duplicates from the first page repacked in ARJ):
http://web.archive.org/web/19990503093125/http://members.aol.com/heiska/ewc1.html
There are also four scenarios by Kenny Chong:
http://www.oocities.org/tokyo/2077/warcraft.html
Several more are mentioned on this page but sadly the downloads were not preserved by the Wayback Machine:
[url=http://web.archive.org/web/19980212142057/http://panesu.esu14.k12.ne.us/~dpelster/game/levels.html]http://web.archive.org/web/19980212142057/http://panesu.esu14.k12.ne.us/~dpelster/game/levels.html[/url]
NOTE: The URL parser here seems to have trouble with Wayback Machine links so please copy them and paste in your browser's address line manually.
Post edited April 16, 2019 by MrFlibble