Muling on a mac

[Opalius]

Muling on a mac

I've searched, but no answer showed up. Is there a way to do it all by yourself?

 

[wildjinn]

Depends. If you have system 10.3, it's not that hard. here are some instructions i had previously written up. You need to use fast user switching to do it easily.

Cool. Here's how it works.

Fast user switching can be set up in the accounts control panel. Click Login Options and click Enable Fast User Switching. That should put an additional menu at right-hand side of the menu bar with your long account name on it. You can pull that menu down and select other users from it and login to their accounts while keeping yours open and running. A password is required to switch between accounts at all times.

With OS 10.3, you can run multiple instances of a program between users. If you don't know what that is, it means that you can run copies of the same program simultaneously with as many users as you want.

The important result of these situations is that you can host an TCP/IP game with one user and connect to it with the other, even if you can't usually host games. Once you've created the multiplayer game with your primary user, switch user accounts, open another instance of Diablo II, choose Other Multiplayer, then TCP/IP game, then the Join Game option, and enter an IP of 127.0.0.1 (Using this IP will keep your connection solely in your computer and won't require a bounceback from a router.)

Important note!
You need to set item permissions properly in order for this to work! When you create a character, the characters is only useable by the system user who created it. Whenever you make a character click your Diablo II Save folder and choose Get Info from the File menu. Then pick Ownership and Permissions and unlock it, then pick Read & Write from the Access dropdown menus and the Others drop down menu. Then, click the Apply to enclosed items... button to make all the files inside your Save folder readable and writeable by all users.

If you have any questions about this, let me know. I love helping out Mac folks, so I'd be glad to give you any more information that I can.

edit: nice avatar, by the way.

 

[Opalius]

Crap, I'm still 10.2.8. Oh well, thank you anyways.

 

[robochan]

Is there a port of WINE for MacOS? I know there is for Linux and *BSDs. Perhaps you could build it and run ATMA then.
(edit: I am a goodly speelar)

 

[Stile58]

There are 2 ways that I have used on 10.2.8 to mule.

The first involves installing LOD into your OS 9 app. folder. (just drag your current folder there and it will copy). I kept only my mule characters in the OS 9 install.
-Start up in OSX and create a multiplayer game.
-Start a second instance in OS 9 (using the non Carbon D2 icon) - this will start the Classic environment.
-then join the multiplayer game with your mule character.

*note - this is very slow and tedious, at least it was for me. Also I found that the game was only stable if I created it in OSX and joined from Classic.

The second option which I use now is Virtual PC. Virtual PC is a Windows emulator and will run on Macs up to OSX 10.2.( Apparently the 10.3 architecture is different and won't support it). The version of Virtual PC I use is 6.01 and run WinME which I borrowed from my Sis-in-Law.

Then download ATMA and install it on VirtualPC. This program also runs fairly slow - I believe it emulates a PII MMX system - It may not run as fast as a real PC, But at least you get to use ATMA :winner:

-Frank

 

[factotum]

The second option which I use now is Virtual PC. Virtual PC is a Windows emulator and will run on Macs up to OSX 10.2.( Apparently the 10.3 architecture is different and won't support it).

There's at least one Mac in the company I work for that runs Virtual PC on OS 10.3--are you sure it's not compatible?

 

[Stile58]

@factotum: The last time I checked, - which was a few months ago - The VirtualPc site,(I believe its Microsoft now), had not updated the software to run on 10.3. I haven't checked back, since I'm not sure about upgrading my system, and didn't want to lose the use of ATMA. If it is compatible, I may just have to upgrade.


-Frank

I was just on the VPC website, and it seems that VPC is not supported by the new G5 macs. OSX 10.3 seems to be fine. My bad :uhhuh:

 

[DurfBarian]

10.3 + VPC = good. It's the G5s that it doesn't like, and that'll get fixed this summer when VPC7 comes out. I'm going to get Office 2004 Pro since that version comes with VPC and XP Pro to boot . . .