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One day I decided I wanted to play through Diablo 2, easy enough right?  Well, not for anyone with a Mac with an intel x3100 chip (me).  It seems that Apple dropped support for 256 colors and with that, Diablo 2.  Currently there is a beta patch available from Blizzard that will run the game in single player mode (battle.net won’t run until the official patch).  For those of you like me who want to play on battle.net and want to do it within OS X, there is hope!  I actually found a workaround: Crossover Games (for OS X).  I toiled around with it for a few hours and it does run the game well.  Here is exactly how I did it:

Things you need (or at least I used to make it work):

Diablo 2 and Expansion installer (windows client) –  available from battle.net direct download.  As long as you have valid CD keys for both games, you can create an account with Blizzard and they’ll actually give you a download of the client and a new CD key that will work.  Once again, you need the WINDOWS client, not the OS X.

NOTE: If you try to download this using OS X, it will, but as Blizzards proprietary torrent downloader *.exe file.  This means you can’t just run it in OS X.  I used VMware fusion and Ubuntu (with WINE) to download the files and move them over to the OS X side of my Mac (THANKS TO NATE).  I’m sure you can just use boot camp and play on windows as well.  I don’t own a copy of Windows, nor do I want to .

Crossover Games for Mac OS X – from what I know it’s a specialized version of crossover that is made for games.  I know it works well with Diablo 2 and I hear it works well with other games too.

Install Diablo 2 and expansion using the same bottle - easy enough, just double click the .exe file in the folder and Crossover should take care of the rest!

That should hold us over until Blizzard comes out with the official fix!  If anyone has problems/finds a simpler solution just comment with them!

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