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Timinator

Oct 9 2001, 01:04 PM

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As seen at www.maccentral.com:
Blizzard Entertainment has announced plans to bring new updates to their real-time strategy game release StarCraft and its add-on pack, StarCraft: Brood War. The new updates will make the games run in Carbonized form, enabling users to play the games natively using Mac OS X version 10.1 and later.

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Blizzard spokesperson Beau Yarbrough indicated in a recent statement to Mac news resources that the OS X patches for StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War will be "available this fall." More specific information about availability and distribution were unavailable. MacCentral will bring more details to light as they become available.

Woo hoo! 1 less reason to boot into classic. Once we get Photoshop and a carbon Graphing Calculator, I get get rid of Classic altogether!

�Tim

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Guyman

Oct 9 2001, 03:59 PM

Yeah I read that too. Now they need to get D2 and the original Diablo and the warcraft series and we'll be set.

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Macavenger

Oct 9 2001, 04:43 PM

Yipee! SC is about the only reason I ever boot to OS 9 these days.

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hawk

Oct 9 2001, 08:00 PM

I hate you OS X users, you know that?

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Ironhorse

Oct 9 2001, 09:43 PM

Hmm, one more reason to get OSX.

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Macavenger

Oct 9 2001, 10:20 PM

[quote]Originally posted by hawk:
I hate you OS X users, you know that?

OmniWeb is sooo pretty...

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Lord Asriel

Oct 10 2001, 08:53 PM

True, we are. My comp doesn't even have enough space to run it now. With the Diablo II: LoD install, i have under 1 GB left, and I only have 64MB of ram anyways. But I can still hope...

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Capt. Editor

Oct 18 2001, 10:13 PM

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Originally posted by hawk:
I hate you OS X users, you know that?

*sigh*

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andiyar

Oct 19 2001, 01:06 AM

[quote]Originally posted by Macavenger:
Yipee! SC is about the only reason I ever boot to OS 9 these days.

-Andiyar

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Starkiller

Oct 19 2001, 05:59 PM

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Originally posted by Macavenger:
You're just jealous.

Damn right I am.

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Macavenger

Oct 19 2001, 06:01 PM

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Originally posted by Tarn�lion Andiyarus:
You actually boot up OS 9 for Starcraft? It runs just fine in Classic on my machine! I've used it on X.0.3, X.0.4 and X.1, with both 9.1 and 9.2. Please tell me you mean you boot up Classic!

It runs OK in Classic, but there are 2 problems.
1) My second mouse button doesn't seem to work in Classic, and I haven't been able to make it. I know the Command key works too, but I've grown rather attached to my second button. It really dos make the game a lot easier.
2) B.net runs a bit screwy in Classic. I opened port 6112 to UDP packets in the firewall so I can get on, but mouse control and stuff in the game creation and joining screens in particular is much less than desirable.

Of course, I imagine those will be non-issues once it gets carbonized.

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LoneIgadzra

Oct 19 2001, 10:35 PM

I am very excited by this - might be just the thing to renew my interest in Starcraft.

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Timinator

Oct 19 2001, 11:09 PM

I'm wondering how they're going to work out LAN games, since OS X doesn't have the IPX protocol installed. I guess it may be possible to add a new protocol��I don't really know how to add stuff like that to OS X, since there's no control panels.

I'm sure they'll find a way.

�Tim

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Desert-Rat

Oct 20 2001, 03:25 PM

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Originally posted by Ironhorse:
Hmm, one more reason to get OSX.

I am also thinking about buying X, but I think that I will wait untill my family buys a new computer. We are actually planning to buy a new iMac next year. (apple won�t realese any new iMacs this year )

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