Playing On Two Computers At Same Time...

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....IS ALLOWED!

A Blizzard rep finally replied to my Email.

Quote:

If you have two unique copies of Diablo II then you can make a
connection with both copies at the same time, however we only support
one connection. This meaning that if you have problems we cannot help
you. You will need to seek help from the network admin, a technician
or troubleshoot the simultaneous connection yourself.
But you are allowed to make the connection to Battle Net with the two
copies of Diablo.


Regards,
Evan C.
Online Support
Blizzard Entertainment

End Quote

So, it is *not cheating* to play the game on more than one computer at
the same time.

;-)

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U¿ytkownik noneyabusiness napisa³:

> ...IS ALLOWED!
>
> A Blizzard rep finally replied to my Email.

.....

But, tell me how to do this ? Blizz tell You that You can play multi
connections, and it is legal, ok. But any tricks with change *.dll,
using D2Loader, etc are NOT allowed. Tell me then how You can be legit
with 2 copies ?

 

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2 copies means u purchases 2 serial numbers. I did this. 1 serial is
installed on 1 and 1 on the other. The 2 comps are networked and share
my cable modem connection.

Mroczny Baranek wrote:
> U¿ytkownik noneyabusiness napisa³:
>
>> ...IS ALLOWED!
>>
>> A Blizzard rep finally replied to my Email.
>
>
> ....
>
> But, tell me how to do this ? Blizz tell You that You can play multi
> connections, and it is legal, ok. But any tricks with change *.dll,
> using D2Loader, etc are NOT allowed. Tell me then how You can be legit
> with 2 copies ?

 

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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:46:51 +0100, Mroczny Baranek
<mroczny@baranek.No_sPaM.eu.org> wrote:

>U¿ytkownik noneyabusiness napisa³:
>
>> ...IS ALLOWED!
>>
>> A Blizzard rep finally replied to my Email.
>
>....
>
>But, tell me how to do this ? Blizz tell You that You can play multi
>connections, and it is legal, ok. But any tricks with change *.dll,
>using D2Loader, etc are NOT allowed. Tell me then how You can be legit
>with 2 copies ?


Um... re-read the subject.


(HINT: You use TWO COMPUTERS, each with it's own copy of the game, and
a router with a broadband connection.)

;-)

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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:56:33 -0500, The Shadow <a@b.com> wrote:

>2 copies means u purchases 2 serial numbers. I did this. 1 serial is
>installed on 1 and 1 on the other. The 2 comps are networked and share
>my cable modem connection.
>
>Mroczny Baranek wrote:
>> U¿ytkownik noneyabusiness napisa³:
>>
>>> ...IS ALLOWED!
>>>
>>> A Blizzard rep finally replied to my Email.
>>
>>
>> ....
>>
>> But, tell me how to do this ? Blizz tell You that You can play multi
>> connections, and it is legal, ok. But any tricks with change *.dll,
>> using D2Loader, etc are NOT allowed. Tell me then how You can be legit
>> with 2 copies ?


Um, yeah, what he said...


(Damn, I replied myself before seeing this.)

:-o

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noneyabusiness wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:46:51 +0100, Mroczny Baranek
> <mroczny@baranek.No_sPaM.eu.org> wrote:
>
>>U¿ytkownik noneyabusiness napisa³:
>>
>>> ...IS ALLOWED!
>>>
>>> A Blizzard rep finally replied to my Email.
>>
>>....
>>
>>But, tell me how to do this ? Blizz tell You that You can play multi
>>connections, and it is legal, ok. But any tricks with change *.dll,
>>using D2Loader, etc are NOT allowed. Tell me then how You can be legit
>>with 2 copies ?
>
>
> Um... re-read the subject.
>
>
> (HINT: You use TWO COMPUTERS, each with it's own copy of the game, and
> a router with a broadband connection.)

It works also with one PC without D2Loader and changed .dll
Just use Linux/WineX.
Create a separate user for each copy and it works without any tricks.
Only the system resources limits the number of copys you can use at the same
time.

Koile

 

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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Koile <koile.usenet@gmail.com> wrote:

>> It works also with one PC without D2Loader and changed .dll
>> Just use Linux/WineX.
>> Create a separate user for each copy and it works without any tricks.
>> Only the system resources limits the number of copys you can use at the same
>> time.
>>
>> Koile

Kindly post details?

I use Linux on a daily basis (RH7.3) and am starting to tinker with it
at home (FC3). Never used it as a game machine (except for games on the
installation CDs) and never ran anything under wine (tried in 5.x and
6.2 and nothing worked).

I would *really* like to get off of Microglop.


--

USEast HC Ladder: Rockstomper

 

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Brian Brunner wrote:

>>> It works also with one PC without D2Loader and changed .dll
>>> Just use Linux/WineX.
>>> Create a separate user for each copy and it works without any tricks.
>>> Only the system resources limits the number of copys you can use at the
>>> same time.

> Kindly post details?
>
> I use Linux on a daily basis (RH7.3) and am starting to tinker with it
> at home (FC3). Never used it as a game machine (except for games on the
> installation CDs) and never ran anything under wine (tried in 5.x and
> 6.2 and nothing worked).
>
> I would *really* like to get off of Microglop.

I'am not very familiar with RH but I can tell you what I did with Debian.

Get WineX or Cedega (which is the new name of the same software). Plain wine
will not work because of the CD copy protection. You can buy Cedega for
15$ at http://www.transgaming.com/ (3 month subsription) or you can compile
it from the CVS tree http://transgaming.org/cvs/
http://ting.homeunix.org/cvs_wine/GetWineX.html seems to be very useful
if you want to compile it by yourself.
Thats all you need to play Diablo on Linux.

BTW. I'm still using Winex3, the predecessor of cedega. I will subsribe
again when I really need cedega.

To run 2 copys I created a second user for the second instance, and
installed the second copy from CD. I symlinked some large files which
do not contain CD-keys to safe disk space.

In KDE I 'start a new session' for that user. There is an entry in the
KDE menu. ATM I'm to lasy to figure out how to start the second instance
without all the KDE stuff, but I'm sure it must be easy.

If this entry is missing, it's most likely that a second Xserver isn't
enabled in the 'Xservers' file beloning to your display manager.
Mine is (maybe debain specific) /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers

May this sounds complicated but it must be done just once in a liftime ;-)

My normal gamplay is to start a second session (#2)
then I switch to #1 by pressing ctrl-alt-F7 and start Diablo
Then switch to #2 (ctrl-alt-F8) and starting the second Diablo.

Now I have two fullscreen D2 instances running.
BTW. I start the second instance of D2 with the -ns switch ;-)

Other interesting possibilities don't work for me now (because I have a
working configuration and I'm sooooooo lazy ;-) )

D2 in windowed mode works, but if you klick outside, the D2 minimizes
itself to nowhere. The process is still runnig but I found now way to
bring it back on the screen. :-(

Another thing I don't know is how to start winex (not D2) in a windowed
mode. If winex would be able to display the game in a 800x600 window it must
be possible to start all instances in just one session on one Xserver.

Hope this helps
Koile