BroodWar in Mac OS X Lion (10.7+)

Rus_Brain

Russian Federation1821 Posts

October 03 2011 06:42 GMT

Guys,

Is it so that the only way to launch BW on new Macs is parallels/bootcamp now?

I tried to run installer as always and it failed:
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If there's still some way to run BW on mac directly, please help.

Game

3191 Posts

October 03 2011 06:46 GMT

Shouldn't this be in the BW Forum? I think you could get a lot more help there.

Oldfool

Australia373 Posts

October 03 2011 08:52 GMT

There is a native installer for OSX that you need to download in order to install old blizzard games.

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21149

Direct link to the .dmg for installer: http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/starcraft/patches/Mac/StarCraft_OS_X_Installer.dmg

Lysenko

United States2128 Posts

October 03 2011 09:02 GMT

The installer the previous poster linked won't address the issue. I couldn't find the original support post, but this thread has a blue poster making the issue clear. Basically, all the pre-WoW games except Warcraft III require PowerPC emulation, which isn't in Lion, and their recommendation is to either stay with OS X 10.6 or use Boot Camp. Warcraft III should be able to run fine under 10.7.

There's a similar thread on the EU forums.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/2301633356

bsas

4 Posts

October 17 2011 04:07 GMT

There is a way to make StarCraft Broodwar work in MacOS Lion: using Wineskin (free)

1) Download Wineskin:
http://wineskin.doh123.com/

2) Install and download the engine: WS8Wine1.1.35 (yeas, not the latest)

3) Use this engine to install Starcraft (Windows Version)

This works perfectly on my Macbook Pro 13'' Mid-2009.

Any question, be free to ask! :D

bsas

4 Posts

October 21 2011 03:50 GMT

I've detailed a little bit more at:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=246868&currentpage=2#34

tino

Germany21 Posts

October 14 2012 17:50 GMT

Has anyone tried this in mountain lion and the current version Winery 1.7 with engine WS9Wine1.5.15 ? I cannot get it to work. Says that the installation has failed.

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