I have been using Starcraft/Brood War for pretty much 5 years now
4 online battle.net.
2 years ago I wanted a good editor, No luck.
I have been searching for 8 months when i gave up.
I then wanted a bot. So i searched for some of them. No luck.
but while i was looking for a bot for mac. I found the best editor that works for mac.
I have Mac OS 9
it is called "X-tra Editor for Mac"

I have been using this for a year now.
You can do...
-Extra triggers (more ai scripts)
-some unused buildings (3 frozen scouts)
-place nukes
-place eggs
-place larva
-any unit is 1 pixel
except for some heros
-name powerups
-name minerals
-disable any unit (not all units can be disabled)
-place doodads that are only for installation, on any map
+more

Parts that don't work for me.
-change the properties, (crash)
-Load sc after editor is loaded (sc crashes)


to fix either of those
properties must be done by hand
e.g.
set invincibiliy (trigger)
create hallucs (trigger)
cant make a lifted terran building (no trigger for it)
Cant burrow units (no trigger for it)
set health (trigger)
cloak (no trigger for it)

to do some properties jus load it back into the normal editor (if you dont have stacked units)
some units are still the square things (beacons, addons...)

I have been in a map making clan for 1^1/2 years now.
even though i didnt have a good editor i could still do
-square tiles
-stack
-player black (256)

those are all glitches that I have found by myself
with messing around with the ORIGINAL editor.
If you would like help with map making on sc feel free to e-mail me or
go to "op Clan[O]" @uswest and i should be ther.

For some of these glitches
visit this site
http://s9.invisionfree.com/ClanO/index.php?act=SR&f=6

For the X-tra Editor For Mac
visit this site
(i got it 1 year ago so dont expect it to work still, and i got an OS9)
http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=168

darn i cant even attach mine.

Site admin has an enforced ban on images.

I found something similar, called Staredit Emerald. I've only managed to crash it once.

I believe there is a program called StarFire for OS X that does the same thing. In fact, searching for "starfire staredit" gave me this page.

What I really need is an MPQ compiler so I can stack and do other things

That's the editor I used back in the day as well, didn't have too many problems with it. The properties crashing thing I found was also a staredit problem that occurs when you use the return key to close the properties window.

None of those editors have worked for me
on either mac os9 or X(panther)
emerald links are all dead
starforge dead
starfire jus opens a blank page to write in.

jus got pmed.
and fixed that
i'll jus make my own pic of binary code