Diablo – Identity of the Man in the Last Cutscene

Crazy as this sounds, you can kill explorer.exe from the task manager once you have Diablo open, and it will fix your technicolor issues. This seems to work with a lot of other older games in Win 7 64-bit.

You can't run it through a normal method.

Here is what I found:

To recap:

• Classic won't work since you're running an Intel. Diablo under Classic (on PPC) works poorly or not at all anyway, in my experience.

• You can try SheepShaver. However: it can be confusing to set up (the linked directions @Xeem are pretty good); you need an OS 8 or 9 system folder/disc to run it (NOT downloadable from Apple); and it's pretty unstable for gaming in any case - this on my PPC, which runs it natively.

• The Windows solution. Since the Battle Chest CDs are hybrids, you'll have a PC version to run. However, you'll have to buy a copy of Parallels/VMWare. Why not just do Boot Camp for free? Even then, you'd still need (have to buy?) a copy of Windows XP. A little pricey to run one old game.

Short answer: there's no one solution that's both easy and free, sadly.

I can understand why you'd want to play Diablo, though. #II has more choices, but seems to devolve into a constant flood of A. weak items for your class or B. great items for another class, requiring you to town-portal every 5 minutes to free up space. Diablo really had the formula down of streamlined dungeon crawling, nearly every item an improvement, and click-click-click gaming.

In this topic, they advise the person to try Diablo 2 instead, because it'll provide more choices to run.

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Those are other two links that say more or less the same.

• Diablo 1 on OSX 10.5?
• Any way to play old Diablo 1 on OSX?