Installation without Launcher
Find the program that you want to uninstall. Scroll through the programs here until you find an icon for the program that you want to remove. If the program is inside of a folder, double-click the folder to open it and look for an uninstaller application. If there is an uninstaller application, skip to the next section. Review Wineskin Winery files or folders, click Complete Uninstall button and then click Yes in the pup-up dialog box to confirm Wineskin Winery removal. The whole uninstall process may takes even less than one minute to finish, and then all items associated with Wineskin Winery has been successfully removed from your Mac! 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.
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). Wineskin Winery free download - Winery, Winery Explorer, The Winery Hotel, and many more programs.
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 servers
http://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
cd ~/D2For windowed mode
wine Diablo 2.exe -wFor fullscreen
wine Diablo 2.exe -3dfxIt 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.
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)Installation without Launcher
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 servers
http://get.median-xl.com/launcher/?get=dlls
download1.x.x.dll.update
Wineskin Mac 10.15
filerename1.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
cd ~/D2For windowed mode
wine Diablo 2.exe -wFor fullscreen
wine Diablo 2.exe -3dfxIt 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.
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'Wineskin For Mac Os Sur
Diablo crashed and I can't close itUse 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:
How To Update Wineskin On Mac
1. Create a 'bottle' - a virtual instance of a Windows machine wrapper.2. Follow instructions above to install D2 LoD + MedianXL