Talking about Diablo 1 in 2018

Hey triggers! how is going?
This guide make possible to play Diablo 1 again with multiplayer active.

Talking about a classic, Diablo 1 was a game released in december of 1996 with purpose of RPG hack'n slash style, the main story starts with the villagers telling you about what's happens to Tristam.

So let's list all problems founds in Windows 7

1 - user interface with psicodelic colors
2 - battle net connections problems

The cause of the color bug in Windows 7
The game is old and some process of windows changed alot from Windows 95 to Windows 7.
Windows XP have some little bugs but nothing like Windows Vista or Windows 7, this happens because the process named explorer.exe has received a major modification of its archtecture.

Problem 1

So how to solve it?
The easier step is make a batch script to kill the process explorer.exe until the end of the gameplay.

script:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start "%programfiles%\diablo\diablo.exe"
pause
start explorer.exe

end script here

i'll assume you installed the game in the default directory, if not please setup the path correcly from where you installed the game.

Problem 2

Description
The last update of Diablo 1 was the version 1.09 this version will allow you to play online but only this will not be sufficient to play with your friends in the battle net.

So how to solve?
before let me ask you, do you have some experience with IT issues?

if YES read Item [YES] else read the item [NO]
[YES start]
Ok, you need foward the route of the ports 6112 to 6119 to your local IP machine, after this you can setup de DHCP client to made you machine static.
[YES end]

[NO start]
Ok, first get the access of your router to do this go to the prompt command the type "ipconfig"
Locate the gateway address of main network (if you use torrent, hamachi, tungle or any other software who generates virtual networks, maybe this will turn more confusing to indentify the correct gateway)
With the gateway address type in any browser the address, then the router will ask the user and password to give the access, check with you Internet service provider the user and password.
From here locate the item Fowarding or NAT, in the menu options
Setup the port 6112 and 6119 to the your IP location.
And is done... (maybe you need setup again if you local IP changes)
[NO end]

If are you using the Windows 10 I'm sorry but you can't play Diablo 1 with Windows. An alternative option is to install virtual machines (you can do that installing softwares such as VMware or VirtualBox).

After this you install an older Windows (if you have one), if you don't have you still can play using Linux distribution, I recommend use Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Xubuntu any of this will be perfect to run Diablo 1 (so how run windows programs in Linux?).
in Linux you'll need install a program named WINE, to do that follow the steps in this link[https://www.linux.com/learn/how-install-and-use-wine-run-windows-applications-linux]