Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness+Beyond the Dark Portal (DOS) ISO

How to play Warcraft II (DOS):

There are  a few videos explaining this but i do not recommend following those since they over complicate things. I put this together focusing on 2 things: Less steps as possible, no external programs besides DOSBox 0.74 and winrar.

Let’s get to it:

Installing Warcraft II:

1. Extract the game with latest Winrar, you’ll see a .bin and .cue files.
2. Install DOSBOX.
3. Drag and drop the .cue file into DOSBOX shortcut (found on the desktop).
4. Now type D: and press enter.
5. Then type install and press enter.
6. Hit Continue, OK and autoset until the installation is done.
7. Once you are back on DOS you can type war2 and press enter to play.

Playing Warcraft 2:

1. To play you need to first drag and drop the .cue file into dosbox.
2. The type cd war2 and press enter.
3. Then type war2 and press enter.

RB's Notes 1: Post improved to include the following:

- Beyond the Dark Portal Expansion
- Update Patches for the executables
- Community Maps
- .pdf format manuals

RB's Notes 2: While the drag and drop method has its uses, it's not necessarily elegant nor does work well for every circumstance or device. Here's a more universally permanent solution you can copy/paste for ease, if you so choose. Add the following to your dosbox.conf, replacing the text between < and > with whatever paths you've set.

If a .conf file is not present, you can create one with the config -writeconf command. I suggest having an individual .conf file for every DOS game you have, so you can have tailored settings and the appropriate [autoexec] sections for each.

[autoexec]
mount C <path to the directory that will be the main emulated hard disk>

imgmount <full path to the .cue disc images that will be contained in the emulated D drive> -t cdrom
C:

What this does is ensure every time dosbox loads, it will have these commands at the ready. Below is a practical example:

[autoexec]
mount C C:\Dosgames
imgmount D C:\Dosgames\WC2.cue C:\Dosgames\WC2X.cue -t cdrom
C:

Once the appropriate virtual drives are mounted within Dosbox you can proceed with installation as described above. Note that to play the expansion, you'll have to disc swap; you can do that by pressing CTRL+F4 or the appropriate option in Dosbox for your device.

RB's Notes 3: Changed file compression format to make the download faster. Also, I included a fully updated executable in the "Updated Executables" subfolder, as manually patching under Dosbox can be something of a bother. Just replace the WAR2.exe with that one once the game is installed.