Starcraft 2 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.
Starcraft now runs without any problems and looks gorgeous even with only 256 colors. 
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.
I just bought starcraft today and I had the same problem when I installed it. When is this new patch coming out? -Grape
Thanks! I was ready to kill Blizzard support. You saved their lives