Crossover for Mac saves the day for gaming

The holidays, for me, is best defined by friends from high school coming home to a blur of gaming. And yeah, LAN parties and all, nothing beats a retro moment of Diablo II. Here’s an interesting set up we did over the holidays. We connected five portables to a wireless network over at a friend’s house in order to LAN Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. The gimik was that two of the five notebooks were Macs. Rather than running Diablo on Parallels, BootCamp or doing a Mac install of Diablo (Blizzard game discs can be installed on both Macs and PC’s), we ran Diablo II natively using a great app called Crossover from Codeweavers.

Crossover allows you to run certain Windows apps natively on your Mac. It creates a “bottle” which serves as a virtual environment for installing Windows apps. In some cases, like Diablo, you don’t even need to run an install. You can just copy the entire folder directly and run the *.exe file it as is.

Kick ass!