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. 
August 10th, 2008 - 01:53
Blizzard will patch StarCraft to work again on 10.5.3/10.5.4 on the affected hardware, it will use millions of colors instead of 256-color mode (however the game will look the same on-screen). Sorry for the inconvenience.
August 25th, 2008 - 07:04
I just bought starcraft today and I had the same problem when I installed it. When is this new patch coming out?
-Grape
August 30th, 2008 - 03:28
Thanks! I was ready to kill Blizzard support. You saved their lives
July 13th, 2009 - 06:07
it seems that the link you gave for starcraft to install 256 colors for newer operating systems doesn’t seem to want to open or has been shut down. do you have any suggestions?
July 13th, 2009 - 11:12
Blizzard fixed the 256-color bug which appeared on Mac OS X. Just install the newest Starcraft patch.