# WinWar: rewriting Warcraft: Orcs & Humans with original game data

> WinWar rewrites Warcraft: Orcs & Humans as a C# and MonoGame desktop port for Windows, Linux and macOS. It loads the original game's WAR art and level files from a user-supplied retail or demo copy. The project is archived.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/CAMongrel/WinWar>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/CAMongrel/WinWar/blob/b3fe467227620431d8060ecac99fa054c3f96602/readme.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/winwar-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/winwar-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/winwar-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A Warcraft: Orcs & Humans retail or demo copy is required for its DATA files.
- **Prerequisites:** Visual Studio 2022 is specified for compiling the desktop solution.
- **Limits:** The project is archived; iOS code is nonfunctional.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/CAMongrel/WinWar/blob/b3fe467227620431d8060ecac99fa054c3f96602/readme.md>

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