I understand where you are coming from. If you do not own Tzar or Age of Wonders and are interested. All three games have been released in a box set call "Medieval Masters Collection". Around here it is only $19.99. Not to bad even if you just want DarkStone. The other plus to it is that on the DarkStone CD is the Primus hint guide. Another idea is to check used computer stores. At this point if they have DarkStone still it will be cheap. Other than that I do not have a good idea.