So I've just been getting back into starcraft, sort of practicing for SC2. I used to play B.net back in the day, but now I'm trying to get some play time on iccup, but because there is no Chaos Launcher for OSX, I always just get banned the second I enter a game. Some people hate on macs cus they are sucky for gamers, but how can that be true when I can run starcraft? And thats all I really need anyway. . .

ilbh

Brazil1606 Posts

April 11 2010 21:33 GMT

yeah but you can't play on iccup. so, no point of using OS X for BW. and virtual machines are awful for games... you better dual boot with windows xp using boot camp.

Ursad0n

United States523 Posts

April 11 2010 21:33 GMT

There is currently no way to get antihack on a MAC and I doubt there will ever be.

SilentCrono

United States1420 Posts

April 11 2010 21:37 GMT

my friend greg has a mac and he uses bootcamp to play starcraft on iccup. problem solved.

vAltyR

United States581 Posts

April 11 2010 21:40 GMT

Unfortunately there's no way to get antihack on Mac OS X, though hopefully with Valve releasing all their games for OS X the platform will get some more attention.

Though, Apple seriously needs to make an option to turn off mouse acceleration. That annoys me every time I use OS X now.

MasterOfChaos

Germany2896 Posts

April 11 2010 21:42 GMT

Porting to osx is too much work and too few people benefit. You'd need a programmer experienced with osx including dll injection, reversing SC and other low level topics. The antihack is written delphi, which does not exist for osx, so you need to port it to freepascal too. And the programmer needs to be trusted by icc, which is probably the biggest problem.
So either use bootcamp, or get somebody to improve wine for osx so it works with SC and the antihack.

spancho

United States161 Posts

April 11 2010 22:23 GMT

Its super easy to set up Iccup in OSX, but there is no way to antihack. What would be awesome was if there was some mac-only server out there, or some friendly D players who didnt mind.

ejac

United States1195 Posts

April 11 2010 23:05 GMT

I've suggested before, that someone simply makes a lan latency program for mac and iccup count that as AH. I would imagine that this'd be fairly simple, although I wouldn't know. An AH is not necessary since there have never been hacks made for mac sc and with sc2 around the corner, i doubt anyone would start.

Apexplayer

United States406 Posts

April 11 2010 23:45 GMT

Macs are for 80 year olds that use jitterbugs, if you even think you might want to play a game then don't get one.

IndecisivePenguin

United States771 Posts

April 12 2010 00:08 GMT

#10

On April 12 2010 08:45 Apexplayer wrote:
Macs are for 80 year olds that use jitterbugs, if you even think you might want to play a game then don't get one.

Not if it's SC. BootCamp fixes that easily, if you want all that extra stuff anyway.

Thegilaboy

United States2018 Posts

April 12 2010 00:08 GMT

#11

I play on a mac and have the same problem, send me a PM if you want to play sometime

Severedevil

United States4839 Posts

April 12 2010 00:21 GMT

#12

Dual boot and stop being a pussy.

jgju

United States454 Posts

April 12 2010 00:24 GMT

#13

I play 2v2 iccup on a mac, and some people will leave the game if they see you have no ah, but it seems like a lot of people don't care, at least in my experience.

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

April 12 2010 00:29 GMT

#14

On April 12 2010 09:24 jgju wrote:
I play 2v2 iccup on a mac, and some people will leave the game if they see you have no ah, but it seems like a lot of people don't care, at least in my experience.

Having AH in 2v2 is less common, in 1v1 99% of players will kick you.

TryThis

Canada1522 Posts

April 12 2010 00:30 GMT

#15

theres about a million threads about this, you can paly but with no AH.

i did it for ages, but once you hit the yellow ranks good luck getting games

Cambium

United States16368 Posts

April 12 2010 00:57 GMT

#16

Just to corroborate on some people have already said...

I don't mind playing against people with no AH if I know I am much better (i.e. even if they hack, I'd still probably win), but as I close in on my real rank and grind points to move up, I get cautious and stop playing against those with no AH.

People on the Internet are just plain sordid

selboN

United States2523 Posts

April 12 2010 01:57 GMT

#17

Bootcamp, end of discussion.

CursOr

United States6335 Posts

April 12 2010 01:58 GMT

#18

Do you play with the 1 mouse button thinggy?
How does that work?

Thegilaboy

United States2018 Posts

April 12 2010 02:00 GMT

#19

On April 12 2010 10:58 cursor wrote:
Do you play with the 1 mouse button thinggy?
How does that work?

You can use pretty much any mouse with a Mac lol, I use a Logitech for instance

funnybananaman

United States830 Posts

April 12 2010 02:11 GMT

#20

On April 12 2010 10:58 cursor wrote:
Do you play with the 1 mouse button thinggy?
How does that work?

you can use any mouse with a mac, i may be one of the only people who do use the original one button one that comes with a mac. basically, there's a command button on either side of the spacebar, holding that + click = right click. been doing it that way since i was 8 lol, guess i'm just used to it.

For the OP, yeah i know what you mean no Lan Latency sucks, i'd suggest creating your own games on iccup as you'll usually get banned from games others have made. at least thats what i do

if you're having trouble setting up ICCup in the first place it's super easy go look on the forums at iccup.com