StarCraft/Edit for Mac OSX

[Neu(t)ral Damage]

Does anybody know of a way to get StarCraft and/or StarEdit for Mac OSX?

[GrassDragon]

There's an OS X installer and patches on this page:

http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msc0411p

[Neu(t)ral Damage]

StarCraft works on OSX, but StarEdit insists on Classic 9.
Any ideas?

[Basan]

StarFire (http://www.warboards.org/showthread.php?t=16586). It's the erquivalent to SCXE on Mac's, or so I heard. ;)
Luckily, I don't have a Mac' myself. :P

[Aqo]

Luckily, I don't have a Mac' myself. :P
Nice thing to say ^^.

[Basan]

Nice thing to say ^^.

Gee, thanks for the quotage in your siggy. :smirk: What I meant mostly was that unfortunatly the Mac's were made to not be compatible nor too user friendly, which lead many folks away from'em and thus prevented many interactions between systems in their begginings. I've heard that they're amazing for imaging and blue prints execution management but other than that having to have specific programs bought from their manufacturers (Apple, for those who still didn't knew :rolleyes: ), just 'cause they aren't that 'open source' to make more common tasks goin' smoothly as always shunned my good opinion on'em. Although I may be completely wrong, which I doubt. *Waits for AJ or other Mac' fan(atic) to come over bashing my head* :P

[Neu(t)ral Damage]

Mac's are a lot more user friendly and they don't get viruses.
only reson why they don't have a lot of programs is because most are made for PC
there are made for PC because more people have them
because their cheap

When a program on Windows doesn't respond, you can't do shit until it's solved
With Mac frozen programs are isolated and don't affect other programs
then you can just force quit it

that's beside the point



StarFire needs StarEdit as a host program
If StarEdit needs Classic 9, then StarFire is useless

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

This thread is not in the tech annex section, but the reason there are more programs for the PC is because the recent versions of Windows are more program compatible. Probably the reason why there are more SC editing programs for the PC. Frozen programs can be immediately ended in the task manager under the process tab. PC and Macs can be cheap or expensive, depending how much you want from it.

Lastly Im comfused what your asking, StarCraft and StarEdit says it works for Mac'. Do you mean your trieng to get StarCraft work for the Mac' or your trieng to get/pirate it from somewhere?

[AJ]

*sigh*

Take your Apple vs. the world arguments elsewhere Basan they're unfounded and completely out of date.

As to your problems Neu(t)ral Damage StarFire requires StarEdit, which is a Classic application, yes. So unless you have a copy of OS 9.0 laying around, you're out of luck. StarFire is a little buggy but does work well as a Carbon application, however, since it requires you to load StarEdit -- it still relies on that Classic dependance.

So, at the moment, no -- there aren't really any methods to loading StarFire or StarEdit in OS X without relying on Classic (which obviously shows you'd need to have an installation of OS 9 to fall back on).

Sorry.

[Neu(t)ral Damage]

yea wut sux is that I used to have OS9, but it got defragged and redone. when we got it back theres was no OS9

[AJ]

yeah, it happens.
if your computer originally had OS 9 on it, there's a good chance one of your old software restore discs would have that included on it.

Also if you've purchased OS X within the last couple years they have bundled OS 9 with certain releases of X, which would be all you'd need to reinstall it for Classic.