Comments on: Play StarCraft and Diablo II on your Mac

By: XC

XC — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:53:09 +0000

I was able to successfully install and play LOD in single player, but am having trouble trying to play multiplayer. As mentioned earlier, there’s a Beta Carbon copy or whatever which doesn’t allow for Battle.net, but have there been any updates?

If there’s a way to play via tcp/ip , open battle. net, or closed, would anyone please explain how to do so please? thanks =)

By: Google Sniper

Google Sniper — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:49:39 +0000

I didnt' know you could play diablo on a mac! @_@ talk about being updated.. google sniper review

By: Ronald Regan the turd

Ronald Regan the turd — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:32:35 +0000

Mother of a bastard!

By: Ronald Regan the turd

Ronald Regan the turd — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:42:56 +0000

I think diablo 2 can only be run on 256 colos but the new macs dont use 256 colors help me?!

By: Leefe

Leefe — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:21:47 +0000

I found that if you get a login to Battle.net and register your copy of StarCraft or Diablo II you can download CD images for the game. ie. If you have the CD key you can download the latest version of the game (if you have the bandwidth).

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:28:44 +0000

Alright well I am running a PowerPC (G4) iBook with OS 10.5.7 and I’m getting that interesting problem others have gotten, where the cd spits itself back out as if it’s the wrong cd. Clearly it is NOT the wrong cd, so I don’t know what the problem is. I have had a couple copies of the cd in years past (kept losing the dang things) so the cd key might be from a different copy of the cd. But that has never been an issue on the computers I have used in the past. I’ve never installed sc on any Macs before, and the cd does state “Windows 95 & NT CD-ROM” on it, so I’m not sure what’s going on.

Help would be appreciated.

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:11:54 +0000

EDIT: I was using a Macbook Pro OS X

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:10:49 +0000

To Justin or any other person, I used the patch and had problems opening D2 using the installer also. What i ended up doing was getting another patch off the internet that was for the computer??? SOmething like that.

What the problem was said to be, was that the mac computers dont register/run 16bit or something. Hope this helped or let you know of any problem solving ideas.

By: Matt Eulberg

Matt Eulberg — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:33:44 +0000

Another way to run Starcraft is putting Windows on your Mac. You can do this by using either one of these virtual machine programs: VMware, Boot Camp, which is already on Mac, or Parallel. I use VMware because it lets you use either a bootable disc or a disc image, and it lets you run windows and Mac OS X at the same time. So if you have the Windows installation cd use that through VMware, or get a disc image iso. file from Utorrent or something.

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StarCraft2 Beta & StarCraft on Intel Macs | Leefe rates the world... — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:10:19 +0000

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By: SeanG

SeanG — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:20:45 +0000

I’ve downloaded the most recent Diablo 2 from Blizzard’s website, and it crashes every time I try to start it (OS X 10.5.7). I’m hoping that installing LoD will fix it, but we’ll see.

Blizzard needs to address this!!!

By: Daniel Christensen

Daniel Christensen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:59:05 +0000

Hey.
I tried every thing but it will not work. I have a MacBook OS X 10.5.7.
HELP!!!

By: Seth

Seth — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:50:23 +0000

This is to the last two posts…
as long as you’re on the lastest Mac settings, this will work. I’m assuming your problem is that after the startup screen, your screen goes black and then suddenly closes with the demonic error message.

when you have the play disk in and you are on the screen where you configure video settings (it should be staring you in the face), change from thousands of colors to 256 colors.

This is because the mac automatically assumes that you can run this old game on thousands/millions of colors. The problem is that diablo 2 is based on the 256 system. That’s worked for me like a charm! let me know if you need any more help.

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:53:19 +0000

Hey, I just downloaded the Native Installer and the Carbon patch for the game, and still I get an immediate message when I try to start up D2 that the program has encountered a problem and needs to close. It asks me whether I would like to try and relaunch, report or close, when I press relaunch, it immediately does it again. I have the newest version of OSX. I really wanna play this, so is there anything I can do to fix this? The Native download itself is definitely not fixing the problem. Keep in mind that I have no problem installing the game, it’s just launching it to play it.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:40:42 +0000

seth i need ur help were do u change the colors to when ur installing d2? cuz i did and i dont see anything when i put the play disc into to change it any hep guys its been bugging me for month i neeed help im on 10.5.7 and i get the unexpected error thing

By: derrick

derrick — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:03:06 +0000

it doesnt work for me. i also booted to os 9 and cant figure that out either. im so lost and alone

By: joe

joe — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:53:03 +0000

is there any way to install the expansion with this stuff and play it?

By: joe

joe — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:18:33 +0000

so i downloaded the native installer…. downloaded the patch…. ran the patch…. downloaded the beta launcher…. ran the beta launcher…. and after running the beta launcher it says that diablo has encountered a serious error and i should re install it…. and i also get the application quit unexpectedly message when i try to play the game… ive tried almost everything…i am running 10.5.6 osx and this has been buggin me for sometime… am i doing everything right????

By: steven

steven — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:14:29 +0000

k so…ive downloaded the native installer downloaded the patch and the beta patch and its all running good except for battelnet. says it cannot recognize my format or something to that nature. by the way im running it on a 10.5.6 mac os X. i can only run d2 as the beta format i think that the beta format isn’t recognized by battlenet which is why it won’t work, if anyone knows of any new patches that are recognized that would be awesome thanks

By: Landon

Landon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:53:46 +0000

hi, i just downloaded the installer for starcraft. Everything downloaded/worked fine, but when i go to open/play it, it gives me a little box that says start-up options. I press ok and Starcraft just quits. What should i do?
Please reply with something that i could do.

Thanks

By: Landon

Landon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:52:48 +0000

By: mmmmg

mmmmg — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:52:29 +0000

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By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:08:13 +0000

Thanks for the holding the option key tip.

Going to try this out later when I have some spare time.

By: Max

Max — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:28:54 +0000

hey guys, i managed to install diablo 2 no problem, but when i try to run it it closing unexpectedly. please help! im running on 10.5.5. thanks . max

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:38:45 +0000

oh yeah, and add the beta launcher.
here it is…
http://www.macgamefiles.com/detail.php?item=20233

that is between steps 3 and 4

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:35:43 +0000

all right, this is what you do.

*Download the diablo 2 installer on the blizzard support page
*install D2 with this installer (obviously…)
*download the patch, then RUN it and D2 will be updated
*after that, when you have the play disk in and you are on the screen where you configure video settings, change to 256 colors.

By: Brendon

Brendon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:10:06 +0000

So me like others has a 10.5.6 macbook and unfortunately i cannot run diablo on it…. any ideas?

By: Jemuel

Jemuel — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:03:56 +0000

i just install the diablo 2 in macbook but they need the cd key-

can you pls give to me plsss

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:16:35 +0000

I did all of the suggested methods

-D2 game installer
-1.12 Patch
-Beta launcher that surpasses the carbon copy

I get to the screen where I can select volume and color quality, but then when I press “ok” the screen goes black and I have to restart my mac.

I’m running on a 10.5.6 Macbook.

Any suggestions?

By: justin

justin — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:44:38 +0000

when i installed diablo 2 on my computer it works fine until i get to the main menu screen and it doesnt really show up at all so i cant choose any settings…(I MAC computer)…