As you may have noticed, I’ve been in a real retro gaming mood these past few months. There is a small list of games that I have been playing non-stop since they have come out. While it is well known that the Doom series is probably my favorite game series of all time, there is another series that I continue to play to his day — Diablo.
I bought the Collector’s Edition of Diablo II the day it came out, and played it heavily for many, many years. Sadly, when OS X discontinued PowerPC emulation, I was unable to play it anymore. After years of playing it on my various Windows machines when I upgraded to OS X Lion, I was shit out of luck. Until now….
I was curious if there was ever a work around to this problem so I did some Google searching and I found a thread on the official Blizzard forums about this exact issue. The thread was started in 2013 and the Blizzard rep said they were working on a new Mac installer for over a year, but there was no ETA. I fast forward to the last page in the thread and see a message from April 2016 that the new installers we finished. Oh yeah! Needless to say I went and downloaded the installers for both Diablo II and Diablo II – Lord of Destruction. I was able to transfer my 17 year old CD-Keys which meant I didn’t have to pay for it again! I have been waiting a few years to see this again…
Time to go back to Tristram!
