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More Details on OS X Diablo II
6:00 AM | Andy Largent | Comment on this story
Blizzard's Rob Barris has been busy on Usenet, posting information to the comp.sys.mac.games.action newsgroup about the status of the Mac OS X client for Diablo II and its expansion pack, Lord of Destruction. The latest report includes a description of their development for Mac OS X, noting they have worked on it for some time now. The game will require users to be using OS X 10.1.3 because of the OpenGL fixes made in this latest release. We started working on Diablo 2 for OS X a long time ago. Well before 10.0 in fact.Anything prior to 10.1 was no-good for D2 in OpenGL mode. The idea of shipping D2 with software-display only occurred to us but was rejected. We wanted to make use of all the GL extensions that were being put in to improve performance. OS X 10.1.3 is going to be the minimum acceptable version of OS X for Diablo II to run on. A lot of things that are fixed in 10.1.3, are fixed because *developers discovered them* and reported them as being broken. Some of those things were serious enough to prevent a product like D2 from shipping on OS X at the quality level to which we are accustomed. I'm glad they are fixed and our users will be too. Later in the post, Barris also seems confident they will hit their initial release date of Q1 2002. Here's the rest:The assumption that starting sooner would have resulted in a shippable product sooner, is flawed in this case - it assumes a flawless platform on which to build.Anyhoo, if we really don't release it in the next 15 days as we announced we would, email away. While most Mac gamers would expect some sort of delay due to the continuing work on WarCraft III, seeing Diablo II for OS X within the next two weeks seems still to be a possibility. Stay tuned to IMG for the latest as the client heads towards release.
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