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) by stretch611 on Friday March 08 2019, @12:47AM
I'm not sure about the original... But I remember I used to be able to get Diablo II to work in Virtualbox with a NO-CD hack. So I would assume that the original sans DRM bs will work as well.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P