How To Install Diablo 2 On Macbook Pro
Below are the minimum and recommended system specifications for Diablo® III for Windows® and Mac®. Due to potential programming changes, the minimum system requirements for Diablo III may change over time. Note: For a list of compatible video hardware, see our Supported Video Cards list. Diablo I and II will work on OS X, although you have to download the Mac installer from Blizzard's web site; the installer on the CDs was designed for OS 9 and won't work on newer Macs. There is, however, a problem: the Intel and Nvidia video drivers in OS X 10.5.3 are broken, and Diablo II (as well as many other older games) will not work. The reason this doesn't work in OS X is that OS 9 apps (the original Diablo is one of these) aren't compatible with OS X. You will need more than Rosetta (which simply put translates PPC calls to x86) in order to run the original Diablo on a Mac.
Hankering for some Diablo 1, but most resources online only cover Diablo 2. Is there easy way to run it natively? Would old Mac emulation work in lieu of dual-booting Windows? Is Diablo 1 feeble enough to run well in virtualization? Should I virtualize Snow Leopard with Rosetta instead of Windows? What route has the highest chances of success?
WolfWolf3 Answers
You can't run it through a normal method.
Here is what I found:
To recap:
Classic won't work since you're running an Intel. Diablo under Classic (on PPC) works poorly or not at all anyway, in my experience.
You can try SheepShaver. However: it can be confusing to set up (the linked directions @Xeem are pretty good); you need an OS 8 or 9 system folder/disc to run it (NOT downloadable from Apple); and it's pretty unstable for gaming in any case - this on my PPC, which runs it natively.
The Windows solution. Since the Battle Chest CDs are hybrids, you'll have a PC version to run. However, you'll have to buy a copy of Parallels/VMWare. Why not just do Boot Camp for free? Even then, you'd still need (have to buy?) a copy of Windows XP. A little pricey to run one old game.
Short answer: there's no one solution that's both easy and free, sadly.
I can understand why you'd want to play Diablo, though. #II has more choices, but seems to devolve into a constant flood of A. weak items for your class or B. great items for another class, requiring you to town-portal every 5 minutes to free up space. Diablo really had the formula down of streamlined dungeon crawling, nearly every item an improvement, and click-click-click gaming.
In this topic, they advise the person to try Diablo 2 instead, because it'll provide more choices to run.
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Those are other two links that say more or less the same.
JoachimIt's now possible to play Diablo through your web browser : https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/ .
Details about the project - https://github.com/d07RiV/diabloweb .
It allows you to provide path to original Diablo files on your disk so you can play game legally.
arghtypearghtypeI would go with either VMWare (preferred) or VirtualBox. The game is very old and should have no problem running in a virtual machine. You should use Windows XP.
I think even Diablo 2 will run fine in a VM, but this always depends on the host system etc. A guideline is to use a system that is 10X faster than the requirement.
Sometimes graphic cards have problems with VMs, but both games do not need any graphics acceleration.
My personal experience is that you should invest some money in a good virtualization solution as the freeware tools do not support graphics acceleration. Still Diablo 1 should run fine in either.
Diablo 2 Install Files
I do not own a Mac, but a friend recently installed Age of Empires 2 in VMWare Fusion and we could play.
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The collectors Edition of Diablo 3 includes a 4GB USB drive preloaded with Diablo 2 and Lord of Destruction.
Will this version of the game run on a modern Intel Mac running OS X 10.7 without modifications, virtualisation or other third party software?
How To Install Diablo 2 On Macbook Pro
I have read that Blizzard stopped supporting Diablo 2 on the Mac after Apple removed Rosetta from the OS, but does this also mean they would send out copies of Diablo 2 that won't run on a Mac?
JasarienJasarien2 Answers
As of 2017, yes, Blizzard supportsD2 on the latest macOS (10.12).
At the time of release, no, the included Diablo II + LoDdid not run on OS X Lion (10.7). The soulstone drive edition was no different than Blizzard's latest digital download, which worked with Mac OS 10.3.9 through 10.6 Snow Leopard (and Windows 2000 through Windows 7) but not 10.7 Lion.1 They also had no immediate plans to support it.
So, yes, the Collector's Edition USB soulstone shipped without modern support for D2, though it runs just fine in Parallels and Boot Camp on a MacBook Air, and now runs on the latest Macs.
WolfWolfAccording to Blizzard, they do not support the 'Classic' version of the game anymore. This is the version that is found on the CD and would be the ones that run under Rosetta. As a solution, they provide a downloadable Intel based client to replace the CD version. My feeling is the version you will get on the USB stick will be that Intel client and not the older 'classic' one.
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