jeffli said:
Thanks guys, but that's my problem, actually. My wife recently bought a new hard drive and installed OSX directly, not just upgrade from OS 9. She says it's alright with her to install classic, but I don't want to complicate things just for installing a game (taking from my windows experience, once you install a program then uninstall it, it still leaves some garbage like entries in the registry, etc.). Don't want her doing that to my laptop just for her guilty pleasure (if I ever had one, that is), so if possible I don't want to burden her "clean" Powerbook like that as well. Hope I got my point across without sounding like a fool trying to make things difficult for himself. =)
I've read somewhere that you could install it on a Mac with OS 9, then just copy/paste it from that machine to the one with OSX. Has anybody tried this? She has a Mac with OS 9 in her office. This is my main course of action for now. Although I do have another question with this approach: do I patch it first on the mac with 9 before i copy/paste it to the laptop with X, or do I copy/paste first before I apply the patch?
Please send help immediately. It's been 2 days since my last D2 session. I don't think I can last another day without playing!
Thanks again everyone.
There really isn't a "registry" per se in the mac operating systems, so installing classic and then uninstalling it will really be no problem--the only thing it will do is fill some space on your disk. If you boot from the CD and install it as a non-classic install, you can keep OSX in the dark about having OS9 on your disk and nothing will be changed at all. If you're interested in that route, just let us know and one of us mac enthusiasts will surely leave instructions.
If you want to do the install and copy/paste, you can patch it whenever you want--might as well do it at home for convenience sake. The first link (a bit below) explains how to do it, the second contains the patches (assuming you're playing the expansion). You want the Diablo II LoD OS X patch.sit, LOD Patcher 1.10a.sit, and Diablo II LoD 1.10b.sit in that order. The first patch is the one that makes Diablo II useable in OS X. After doing that, hop on Battle.net to apply the 1.10 patch, then run the 1.10a patch application, then, if you're using system 10.3.something, apply the 1.10b patch by dragging the files from that patch into your Lord of Destruction folder. It's pretty easy and self-explanatory once you download the files.
Oh. And if you're not familiar with it, .sit is a mac compression format, similar to .zip files. If they don't decompress by themselves, doubleclicking them will decompress them.
http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=mdt0488p
http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/diablo2exp/patches/Mac/
There is a third way to install, but it does involve partially installing on an OS9 computer--it will just make the transfer easier. If it's difficult to bring home several hundred megs of the game, I can post those instructions once I dig them up. Let me know.
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addicted2macs said:
You can definitely install it on an OS 9 machine then just copy it over to your OSX laptop. If you're copying over the network (100Mbs), be ready to devote some time to it. If you can, try setting up the laptop as a Firewire target disk. The transfer times are much faster and you don't have to mess with file sharing.
The order of the patching doesn't make a difference. Do it on the Classic mac or the OSX mac.
As for installing classic, it really doens't affect the performance of OSX unless you're running classic emulation. If the files are installed, they're not hurting anything.
On my mac, I just start classic when I need it, then immediately shut it off. No problems.
shoot. missed your post somehow, a2m. Target disk modeing the laptop is definitely the best way to transfer if the OS9 computer at work has firewire. Here's how it works. Connect the two computers by a firewire cable and boot the laptop while pressing T. That will make it so that the laptop starts up with a blue screen and a yellow firewire symbol. It should then mount and show up on the OS9 computer as an external drive. Whomever does the copying can then just copy over the Lord of Destruction folder from the OS9 machine to the OSX laptop. Good call, a2m.
