Note: For peppy's Wineskin, if it fails to open, you must run sudo xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine 'osu!app' in Terminal. Or Wineskin will not open! Of my guide for more details. If you're uncomfortable with using a file downloaded from a complete stranger (and you should be) you can follow my guide here to obtain (mostly) the same. The easiest way to do this is to click the Apple icon in the upper left, then About this Mac, then System Report, and scroll down to Software/Applications. Your Mac will take a while to gather.
- Wineskin is a mac app that download and install (and manages, updates, etc) 'wine' for you. It then creates a HeidiSQL.app (any name you want with any icon you want - but you need to configure it) around the windows.exe that includes the wine version selected and is completely self contained (does not need wine installed separately).
- Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (or later). The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper around.
If you're having trouble with Launcher you can install MXL Sigma without its use.
However, you will be missing out on some Launcher configuration options and this is an unofficial method of patching D2.
Download and install Diablo II
Use 'Start with a fresh install' step of the guide for reference. viewtopic.php?t=4561
Download MXL Sigma files
Launcher downloads several archives from Median XL servershttp://get.median-xl.com/launcher/?get=dlls
download1.x.x.dll.update file
rename1.x.x.dll.update to 1.x.x.dll.7z file
extract1.x.x.dll.7z file
--->
Fog.dll
D2Sigma.dll
http://get.median-xl.com/launcher/?get=mod
download1.x.x.7z file
extract1.x.x.7z file
--->
MXL.mpq
Copy files into Diablo 2 installation folder
copyFog.dll, D2Sigma.dll, MXL.mpq files
paste and overwriteFog.dll, D2Sigma.dll, MXL.mpq files into your Diablo 2 folder
If you use Windows you should be able to run Diablo 2 normally.
Running on Mac (before 10.15 Catalina)
Install brew.sh and wine
You need to install brew and wine to run Diablo 2.
See respective guides brew.sh and Installing Wine on Mac
This guide assumes you have Diablo extracted into your home folder.
In this example it's ~/D2
Open Terminal.app
Wineskin Uninstall Mac Pro
cd ~/D2Wineskin Uninstall Mac Catalina
For windowed mode
wine Diablo 2.exe -wFor fullscreen
wine Diablo 2.exe -3dfxWineskin Mac Os
It just works!
Common problems and solutions
I want to play fullscreen
MXL Sigma doesn't play nicely with fullscreen and DirecDraw or Direct3D. To play fullscreen you have to use 3dfx video driver.
Wineskin Download Mac
cd ~/D2
wine Diablo 2.exe -3dfxDiablo crashes with ACCESS VIOLATION (c0000005)
Make sure you're running in windowed mode (-w flag) or playing fullscreen (-3dfx flag)
Generic bad character file when creating singleplayer character
Easy way is to login to The Sin War once, create a character and log in once. After that you can create characters offline.
If that doesn't work you can create missing folder structure. $WINEPREFIX is ~/.wine by default:
cd $WINEPREFIX
cd drive_c/users/<your_Mac_username>
mkdir -p 'Application Data/MedianXL/save'Diablo crashed and I can't close it
Use Activity Monitor.app, find and kill all wine and wineserver processes
Another option is to use CMD+OPTION+ESC combination for a force quit shortcut.
I have MacOS Catalina and nothing works
Thanks to Apple ruining 32-bit application support on MacOS Catalina it is no longer possible to run wine. There is a solution by another application named CrossOver, which is similar to wine and wineskin. You will require CrossOver version 20+ to make this work, the process is similar:
1. Create a 'bottle' - a virtual instance of a Windows machine wrapper.
2. Follow instructions above to install D2 LoD + MedianXL
3. Add a shortcut to Diablo II.exe file
4. Run it with either window mode (-w) or (-3dfx)
In a previous article, I have shown you how to install OS X El Capitan GM (golden master) or other Beta version without developer account. As I sometime still need Windows-based program such as Mikrotik Winbox, I need to have WINE (Windows Emulator) on my Mac. In this post I would like to guide you how to install Wine on OS X El Capitan. At the time of this writing, the latest version of OS X is OS X 10.11 El Capitan GM (Golden Master).
UPDATE: If you also want to install Microsoft Visio on Mac, you can follow our post how to install Visio on Mac running OS X El Capitan.
Requirements
1. Latest version of OS X El Capitan (Golden Master build at this time of this writing)
2. Latest version of Xcode (Xcode 7.0 GM, you can download it from https://imzdl.com/osx.html if you are not a registered Apple developer.
3. Homebrew package manager for OS X. We will install Wine using Homebrew package manager.
I assume that you have done installing point 1 and 2 in the requirements above. So we just go to install Homebrew package manager.
Install Homebrew
Run the script below to install Homebrew:
Once it is installed, run the below command to install Wine.
Install WINE using Homebrew
The format to install package using brew is “brew install package_name”:
To run a Windows program, use “wine /path/to/program.exe”.
Example below is to run Mikrotik Winbox using wine
Hopefully this post is helpful for anyone who want to install wine on OS X El Capitan.