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9Aug/085

Starcraft and Mac OS X 10.5.3/4

[Starcraft 2](http://starcraft2.com/) has been announced for a while now and as I watched the in-game movies I got the urge to play the good old Starcraft again.
Starcraft is over 10 years old but Blizzard did a good job and released an installer for Mac OS X a long time ago.
The installation did not make any problems but the game didn't start. The app quit itself shortly after I started it.
After looking for a solution for this problem I found out that Apple removed the support for 256 color mode from the nVidia graphics drivers in 10.5.3. (Ok, its 2008 and who really needs a 256 color mode??).
Fortunately there is an easy way to get the [old 10.5.2 graphics drivers back](http://70.181.80.166:82/blog/archives/2008/07/mac-os-10531054-nvidia-256-colors.html).
Starcraft now runs without any problems and looks gorgeous even with only 256 colors. :)