Warcraft II can probably run on a toaster at this point and you can snag it super cheap off GOG.com which specializes in making old games run on new hardware. I'm not sure if all their stuff runs on mac but I'd start there.
Ypu can start here: https://www.scribd.com/doc/3914674/Warcraft-Orcs-Humans-Manual
And it seems this wiki actually has all text in the manual: http://wow.gamepedia.com/Warcraft:_Orcs_%26_Humans_manual
That way you can see the retcons as they happen too, and get a better understanding of how the lore developed.
You can run Warcraft 3 using Wine. I couldn't figure out how to get the movies to play right, so I renamed the movie folders and watched the movies in VLC. Other than that it plays fine.
The gist of the game is a very unusual idea - guessing games in drawings. I drew hundreds pictures to guess by hand (there are more than 300 of them in the game).
-Some pictures are rebuses, some are simpler in guessing, and some are complicated puzzles.
- You can guess each drawing in different ways: you can enter the name of the game by yourself, or guess the game choosing one option from four or six options as the test.
- 6 languages: Russian, English, Spanish, French, German and Italian Languages! I hope you will like itLink of my game in google play
Thanks, this sounds perfect. This might sound dumb, but is it hard to find? I can't seem to find it on kindle and the only amazon copies seem hella expensive: https://www.amazon.ca/World-Warcraft-Chronicles-Christie-Golden/dp/1439172722
The first one doesn't seem to be from The Art of Warcraft book (not in the Undead nor Monsters sections).
The Archmage (2nd from the 2nd link) is definitely Antonidas by Samwise Didier: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Antonidas
PS. You can find quite a lot of official and fan-made artwork here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/media/artwork/
Doesn't matter when you read them really, but OP could mean the Movie Novelisation, rather than the Durotan prequel to which you refer.