I recently tried to install Starcraft on my Intel based macbook running Snow Leopard 10.6.2. Whenever I try to start it up the option window opens and when i click ok the game just crashes. Is there anyway I can fix this? I really want to play haha. Any help would be grateful.
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Starcraft on Snow Leopard
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Patch it!
http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/broodwar/patches/Mac/Brood_War_v1161_OSX.zip
Read the instructions with the patch carefully.
http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/broodwar/patches/Mac/Brood_War_v1161_OSX.zip
Read the instructions with the patch carefully.
To get any of the "old" Blizzard games running on a "new" mac (i.e. any game older than WoW and any mac with osx), i would recommend the following (won't work with pirated games):
1. head over to: www.battle.net (or directly to eu.battle.net or us.battle.net, depending on your region)
2. make a free battle.net account
3. select "add a game" in the "manage my games" section
4. enter the games serial number
5. click on "manage game" and select "download (pc or mac)client"
6. ???
7. Profit!
When installing any game downloaded from the battle.net make sure to use the new serial number shown on the website and not the old serial form the cd, the new serial numbers have 26 characters.
This procedure has several advantages over installing from disc. First you don't need the OSX Installer application, or rosetta, or updates/patches, or anything else. It just works! Second, you can download the game in a different language than the one you purchased (problably not relevant if your from the states, but here in Germany it's rather difficult to purchase english language games, but I hate german translations). And last, you can download the games to any of your computers, no matter where in the world you happen to be at the time you feel like playing.
1. head over to: www.battle.net (or directly to eu.battle.net or us.battle.net, depending on your region)
2. make a free battle.net account
3. select "add a game" in the "manage my games" section
4. enter the games serial number
5. click on "manage game" and select "download (pc or mac)client"
6. ???
7. Profit!
When installing any game downloaded from the battle.net make sure to use the new serial number shown on the website and not the old serial form the cd, the new serial numbers have 26 characters.
This procedure has several advantages over installing from disc. First you don't need the OSX Installer application, or rosetta, or updates/patches, or anything else. It just works! Second, you can download the game in a different language than the one you purchased (problably not relevant if your from the states, but here in Germany it's rather difficult to purchase english language games, but I hate german translations). And last, you can download the games to any of your computers, no matter where in the world you happen to be at the time you feel like playing.
With as long as we've been waiting on SC2, they probably should rewrite the original for Intel. I just want to know if my MacBook Pro is going to be fast enough to run the new game.Yes, it will definitely require Rosetta to play.
Blizzard has done a fantastic job of still supporting their older games - however, they ain't gonna rewrite StarCraft for Intel Macs.
There is no reason for Blizzard to spend resources rewriting it. When it stops working, maybe it would be considered.
They already redid it from Classic OS to Mac OS X, probably for very little gain. With the game dying out, I do not see why they would even consider it, especially for very little gain.
Please note, Diablo 1/Warcraft II cannot be run in OS X. These were deemed not feasible to redo.
Works fine on my Macbook Air, I did the digital download from the blizzard site and patched the game before running it.