Blizzard has handed Diablo I to Good Old Games.com for DRM free distribution in its original form, and also with some Direct X video mode freshening courtesy of the GOG development staff.
The Diablo code is original, 1996 vintage, doesn't require internet connection for single player, and does allow multi-player via vintage Battle.Net servers.
My question: does it run (well) in a VirtualBox VM? If so, perhaps opening up full Admin privileges to 23 year old network code isn't such a bad thing - just take a snapshot of your uninfected image before starting online play, and if you get PWNed outside the game, you can restore from your save point.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @11:35PM (1 child)
The people who were actually responsible for Diablo's creation were publically mocked by Jay Wilson back when his comedy masterpiece Diablo 3 was released.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @09:01AM
There also was a Diablo III made by Blizzard North (https://www.diablowiki.net/Diablo_III:_Blizzard_North_version) which was scrapped for the real life money auction house-infested abomination we got instead...