Blizzard Releases OS X Starcraft Installer

Thapa writes "Giving you an new excuse to dust off an old favorite, Blizzard released a native OS X installer yesterday for StarCraft and Brood War, that lets you install from the original CDs - it's available for free download at their website. This sure beats the old way to install StarCraft." We previously reported on a similar Diablo II installer for Mac OS X.

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Re:the real issue here

[Electrum]

is that apple is no longer shipping classic or even the classic cd's with osx. After the last time I took my ibook in for repair, they replaced my harddrive, giving me 10.3, but without classic.

I got a PowerBook with 10.3 about four months ago and it came with Classic.

You sure about no Classic?

[AHumbleOpinion]

When I installed 10.3 on a G4 a couple of months ago I noticed that Classic was not installed by default. It was on one of the CDs though, it just had to be installed separately. You sure its not on any of your CDs? I was using a retail 10.3 package, my system came with 10.2. I don't believe the CD label mentioned Classic being on the disc.

Mac gamers

[AHumbleOpinion]

People who only want to play games don't buy Macs. However people who buy their computer for non-gaming reasons may also want to play the occasional game. Some of these people found that Macs suit their primary needs best and the Mac gaming market thereby came into existence. Starcraft for Mac came out about a year after the PC version. Since Diablo II Blizzard has been releasing PC and Mac versions at the same time. A MacOS X version of Starcraft has been available for quite some time now. I believe it consisted of a set of alternate files that you dropped into an existing Classic Starcraft installation. The problem today is that the latest version Mac OS X no longer installs the Classic environment by default. Some current Starcraft players are inconvenienced by having to possibly install the Classic environment before installing Starcraft. The new Mac OS X installer avoids this inconvenience by letting them install without Classic. No one was prevented from playiing Starcraft prior to this installer, they were just inconvenienced if they did not have the Classic environment installed already.

Re:Mac gamers

[b-baggins]

All Macs still ship with a Classic environment installed. All the Classic environment is is a System Folder.

This isn't Windows, people, where you have to have dlls and registry keys.

Drag any System 9.2.2 System folder to your Mac's hard drive and you have installed Classic.

Your new Mac's System Restore DVD/CD will have a number of disk images in a hidden directory (.images or something like that.) One of them is a disk image of nothing more than an OS 9.2.2 System Folder and the Applications (Mac OS 9) directory. If you need to install the classic environment, just mount that image, and drag the system folder over.

Re:the real issue here

[b-baggins]

Your classic environment is stored as a disk image in a hidden directory on your restore DVD/CD. You can just mount the image and drag the System Folder from it to your hard drive. Voilá, Classic system installed.

Re:the real issue here

[b-baggins]

It's called .images or something obvious like that. I forget off the top of my head. To do it the gui way, install Tinker Tools and check the box to show hidden files and directories, then restart the Finder. You should be able to navigate directly to the directory on the restore disk from the Finder.