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Sontel
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From: Victoria, Australia
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posted 11 December 2001 04:33     Click Here to See the Profile for Sontel   Click Here to Email Sontel        Reply w/Quote   
Is there any way to create mods on a Mac?

As I understand it there is no way to convert the .txt files into .bin files on the Mac. So I'll have to install D2X on a PC to make a mod.

Anyone have an easier solution?

...Sontel.

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Forsaken
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posted 11 December 2001 05:26     Click Here to See the Profile for Forsaken   Click Here to Email Forsaken        Reply w/Quote   
Virtual Windows? Won't run great, but its cheaper than buying a pc on the side...

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Kobu
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posted 11 December 2001 05:42     Click Here to See the Profile for Kobu   Click Here to Email Kobu        Reply w/Quote   
-direct -txt doesn't work on a Mac?

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Sontel
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posted 11 December 2001 12:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Sontel   Click Here to Email Sontel        Reply w/Quote   
Thanks for the replies!

I have tried installing D2X into Virtual PC and it doesn't run. It doesn't even get as far as the splash screen. I rather think the CD copy protection might bomb out on the emulated CD drive, but can't be sure what's going wrong. I might try installing again just to be sure.

And the Mac does not have a command line, so there is no way of passing the required parameters into the game.

One thought though. The Mac version of D2 has a very primitive implementation of the Windows registry concept (i.e. preferences and settings stored as a name/value pair).

Is there a registry setting to turn -direct and -txt on permanently? If so, I could try manually adding this to the preferences. Might just work!

...Sontel.

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 12 December 2001 17:08     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Well, does it work. You messaged me on d2.net to set up a mod to test out why Balrog blades as well as other swords cannot get cruel. Oh, I can't set up the mod you suggested to me because I've been very busy, maybe next week but hopefully your mac will make it work so you don't need me to do it and we can compare our results. And now that Ruvanal has "dropped" out of the testing and oneko isn't there as well as Jarulf, I guess I'll have to try to figure it out myself as to why Balrog blades and other swords like Phase Blades can't get cruel from the 3 chipped recipe.

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Sontel
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posted 12 December 2001 17:26     Click Here to See the Profile for Sontel   Click Here to Email Sontel        Reply w/Quote   
Heh, we'll have to stop meeting like this or people will start to talk

No, I can't get it to work on the Mac. I can use MPQView and mpq2k in Virtual PC, but I have no way of generating the .bin files from the .txt files on my Mac.

So I can't start working on the test mod until I get a PC that can run D2X.

Or unless someone knows how to make Mac D2X run in -direct -txt mode. Maybe I'll send an email to Blizzard tech support

...Sontel.

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 12 December 2001 17:34     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Hmm, sorry about that, guess you'll have to get a new computer.

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Sontel
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posted 12 December 2001 18:26     Click Here to See the Profile for Sontel   Click Here to Email Sontel        Reply w/Quote   
Oh, I have a PC here that can do the job. But it's running Linux at the moment and I want to install Windows and D2X on a different drive.

But I've lost the spare hard drive I want to use! I'm moving house this weekend so maybe I'll find it when I unpack everything.

Besides, doing it all on my Mac will be so much cooler.

...S.

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Forsaken
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From: Dutch guy in France
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posted 13 December 2001 05:13     Click Here to See the Profile for Forsaken   Click Here to Email Forsaken        Reply w/Quote   
Hey, you could still chop a couple of gigs of the linux partition, turn it into fat(32) or whatever you want to use, install Windows, and tell Linux to keep check of the dual-booting. Saves you the trouble of finding the other harddisk...

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Sontel
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posted 13 December 2001 13:38     Click Here to See the Profile for Sontel   Click Here to Email Sontel        Reply w/Quote   
Heh, except I've only got an old 1GB drive in there for Linux.

So you don't know of a registry entry that causes D2X to run in -direct -txt mode?

I can see one in there called:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Diablo II\UseCmdLine which currently contains "0000000400000001". Perhaps twiddling those values might make it behave differently.

...Sontel.

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