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Aug 5 2012 02:01am

its been almost a year since i played diablo 2 and i decided to buy a digital copy and play again.

i purchased it on battle.net and installed the clients for classic and lod

but the installer wont open.

"You can't open the application Installer because PowerPC applications are no longer supported."

i read on the support forum that i could install bootcamp and then install windows

1. Does boot camp cost anything
2. Does windows cost anything
3. How easy/ how long would it take to do all of this
4. is all of this really necessary or is there another way?

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Aug 5 2012 02:57am

this can be closed.

for a second a doubted the genius behind mac computers and thought that it sucked. then i learned that boot camp comes pre-installed and has a download for windows 7

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Aug 5 2012 02:57am

1. no
2. yes, but theoretically you can also install an old version of mac OS or even linux and get it to work
3. super easy, if you use windows it should be 10min of clicking and ~1h of waiting to install. using linux and wine to be legit and without cost is more difficult
4. yes, it is necessary. there is another way, i.e. rebuilding rosetta for newer versions of mac os, but I don't think anyone has done that.

Quote (fatlace @ 5 Aug 2012 10:57)

this can be closed.

for a second a doubted the genius behind mac computers and thought that it sucked. then i learned that boot camp comes pre-installed and has a download for windows 7

you'd still need a windows 7 key

This post was edited by Kasiir on Aug 5 2012 02:58am

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Aug 5 2012 02:59am

Quote (Kasiir @ Aug 5 2012 02:57am)

1. no
2. yes, but theoretically you can also install an old version of mac OS or even linux and get it to work
3. super easy, if you use windows it should be 15min of clicking and ~1h of waiting to install. using linux and wine to be legit and without cost is more difficult
4. yes, it is necessary. there is another way, i.e. rebuilding rosetta for newer versions of mac os, but I don't think anyone has done that.

thanks for you're help. if what i have figured out for some reason does not work. ill just have to do it that way i suppose.

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Aug 5 2012 03:00am

Quote (Kasiir @ Aug 5 2012 02:57am)

you'd still need a windows 7 key

oh... hmm

i guess I would have to purchase a copy of windows 7 to get that key?

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Aug 5 2012 03:58am

cant talk about illega program reported

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Aug 5 2012 04:01am

Quote (HighschoolTurd @ Aug 5 2012 03:58am)

cant talk about illega program reported

to my knowledge there are no illegal programs being discussed here.

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Aug 5 2012 11:07am

Quote (fatlace @ Aug 5 2012 06:01am)

to my knowledge there are no illegal programs being discussed here.

he's just trolling

Quote (HighschoolTurd @ Aug 5 2012 05:58am)

cant talk about illega program reported

nothing to see here, move along

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Aug 5 2012 06:27pm

you can't install boot camp on PowerPC, you must have a mac with an intel processer.

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Aug 5 2012 06:30pm

Quote (WhyteLinux @ Aug 5 2012 06:27pm)

you can't install boot camp on PowerPC, you must have a mac with an intel processer.

my mac has boot camp pre installed.

im gonna go tomorrow and buy a copy of windows 7 and ive been told ill have to change the compatibility to xp sp2 and run as admin.

nbd

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