We we’re looking for an alternative to DoTA and I decided to get another cult classic from Blizzard: Diablo II. I didn’t get it from the online store since Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction would have cost me $40 while the Diablo II Battle Chest is only P1795 at DataBlitz and includes Diablo and a strategy guide to boot. Still, I didn’t use the installer CDs. Instead, I used the keys to register online, and downloaded the installers for both PC and Mac.
Setting up Diablo II on the PC was easy but the same could not be said for my sister’s MacBook. For some reason, the game would stop with an error. We researched the problem and it turned out that Apple, in its characteristic infallible wisdom, had disabled 256-color support on the graphics driver. This broke Diablo II and other games that relies on it.
The good news is Blizzard has released a beta patch that allows the game to run. The bad news is it doesn’t work on Battle.Net. Still, it was good enough since it at least allows us to play on the LAN.
We did and it was still pretty fun for a quite old game :)