Today at Fry’s, the wife and I decided to pick up the Diablo II Battle Chest. I had been talking about the game forever and I she wanted to try it. I promised I would play with her, so we bought two copies and headed home.
We quickly installed the game on our main desktops and started playing around. Dawn was of course quickly smitten with the game and we played for awhile. I decided on a whim to try something funny. Patch the game to not require a CD, pop the files on my thumb drive, copy them over, and run Diablo II on our Windows 7 powered netbooks. Thankfully Blizzard has a habit of not cramming your registry with junk, so after a quick re-run of the video card detection program, Diablo II was running just dandy on our little netbooks.
The game plays quite well actually, as we speak I am running the server for Dawn’s game in the background in windowed mode while I write up this little blog. It’s hard to believe these little buggers can play this game! It’s also quite cute to see our little MSI Wind laptops out while we are laying in bed watching TV playing some Diablo II. If you can’t tell, I have some serious nostalgia for this game.
Enjoy!
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I just ordered my MSI Wind on bestbuy and i would have to say that it is perfect for me because it is very light and easy to carry on my bag.
I hope you have a good experience with it. It was cool, but ultimately I sold it because it was underpowered and uncomfortable to use for any extended amount of time. Also the screen is very very cramped.