I wrote about this patch awhile back (regurgitating a post made back in 2010 while Diablo III was undergoing development).
http://murasama-1820.blogspot.com/2014/06/diablo-ii-patch-114.html
Blizzard is finally going to be releasing this patch some time today including an updated installer for OS X (thus allowing D2 to once again work natively on Intel based Macs). I’ve been playing the Windows version using a Wineskin wrapper and that has worked remarkably well (not that it matter since I did finally buy a gaming desktop anyway).
I know this doesn’t bring modern graphics to D2 (which is still a future possibility since the original graphics were all originally vector artwork that was downsampled to the sprite graphics) but this is still a great step in being able to run this classic on modern operating systems without having to jump through all sort of hoops.
