HoB - Technical Stuff and Download
System Requirements
Hoard of Bugtraction is a Modification of the famous Action-Roleplaying-Game 'Diablo II' and its official expansion 'Lord of Destruction'. This means you can't play HoB without both original game and original expansion.
Our Modification is solely based on editing configuration data stored in text files within the *.mpq archives of most recent 1.11b patch. We've focussed on compability so you may play HoB with original game's patches 1.10 (final), 1.11 or 1.11b, it won't work with earlier patches. Your computer's operating system doesn't matter, HoB works on both Windows and Mac OS.
According to the Original Release Notes you'll need
- a x86 PC with 600MHz or better CPU
- 64MB RAM or more
- 1,5GB free Hard Disk space (Full Installation recommended)
- a CD-ROM drive with 4x speed
- a Direct 3D or DirectX compatible video card, better a Glide (old Voodoo3)
- common audio environment
- network connectivity (TCP/IP) for Multiplayer games
- Windows95 or better, we recommend Windows98SE
or
- a G3 Mac with 350MHz or better CPU
- 128MB RAM or more
- 1,5GB free Hard Disk space (Full Installation recommended)
- a CD-ROM drive with 4x speed
- with classic MacOS <X a RAVE or Glide video card, with MacOS X a OpenGL video card
- common audio environment
- network connectivity (TCP/IP) for Multiplayer games
- MacOS 8.1 or better, we recommend MacOS 9.2.2
or
MacOS X.2.x or better, we recommend MacOS X.3.9 (you'll need classic MacOS environment to install original game, but this is not needed to actually play HoB - if using MacOS X we recommend Blizzard's Carbon Update; similar to all official game patches it is available at Blizzard's Patches Site
Our recommendation is a bit more demanding than Official Release Notes', game developers always underestimate their products regarding requirements. Recommended perating systems reflect our personal experience.
It is possible to play Hoard of Bugtraction over TCP/IP network connections, if all participants use same version. It is not possible to play HoB on Blizzard's closed battle.net realms. We recommend to avoid open realms also.
Installation
The download archive contains one game file and some text documents aka recommended readings. Copy the game file into your Diablo II folder.
Beware: in your folder is already a file with the same name. Make a backup of that file before you copy our new file into the folder. Otherwise you can't play unmodified Diablo II anymore without a fresh installation from the original CDs.
In Windows the file is called d2patch.mpq, copy it into C:\Diablo II\, or whereever you've installed the original game.
In classic MacOS it's called Diablo II Patch and in MacOS X Diablo II Patch (Carbon). Copy it into MacintoshHD : Diablo II : Diablo II Files : , or whereever you've installed the original game.
If you have enough hard disk space you also can copy the entire game folder and replace our modded file in just one of them. Create Aliasses to each folder's application file, so you can easily choose which version you want to play. This is a very safe method, but of course it wastes a lot of disk space.
3rd Party Tools
There's quite a bunch of helper tools, especially loaders, which will put all that copying stuff to your ease. We never tried those and won't support them. Using several copies is maybe old-fashioned and clumsy, but it always works with a minimum of mental investment. We can't and won't guarantee that for usage of any other tools which we don't know.
If you want to try something like that anyway, have a look at following Phrozen Keep references.
- installing multiple Mods, by Myhrginoc
- installing in multiple directories, by Volf
- Mod Launcher section
Basically the same goes for all other 3rd party stuff like PlugY. They may work, if you think you can't play without them. But we don't give guarantee or support here.
Download
All archives contain same data files, but they're packed with each platform's most common format.
*.zip archives are most common in Windows, but older OS versions don't deliver a default tool to unpack them. We recommend tugzip as Freeware, also filzip is a good choice.
*.sit archives are common for Stuffit Expander, which is included in classic MacOS. By the way a version for Windows also exists.
*.dmg is inbuilt package format in MacOS X.
- HoB Package for Windows
- HoB Package for MacOS Classic
- HoB Package for MacOS X
At the moment we don't offer any downloadable file, since the modification is way too unbalanced by now.
We don't offer HoB for -direct -txt mode.
