Running Starcraft on 10.6.2

I have a MacBook that I upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.2. I purchased the Starcraft Battle Chest today which lists the system requirements as "Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher." The game installed to the hard drive, but it does not run. When I try to run the software, it pops up on the application bar along the bottom of the screen for about 5 seconds before disappearing. After doing a little bit of reading on the internet, I saw other people having this problem. The common solution that I saw was to download and install the Native OS X Installer. I tried this, but it asks for a 13 digit CD Key. The CD Key included with my game is 26 digits. Any ideas on what's going on?

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everything at the moment is pure guessing.
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1. Download wine tarball from aur repository and install it using makepkg -s and then sudo pacman -U "package name". It is for 686 architecture. This patched version of wine will allow you to play on battle net. It was optimized for warcraft 3 but it works for starcraft as well (both blizzard games ) )
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27298
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4. In my experience, after adding those registry modifications and changes in winecfg I had some problems starting starcraft properly. I got distorted screen and couldn't see starcrat menu properly. I am using xfce4 and I figured out that after changing my window manager from xfwm4 to metacity, using compiz fusion icon, I had no problems. So, my suggestion for you is to use metacity window manager while playing starcraft. sudo pacman -S metacity
5. The last thing I had to change is the keybinding for metacity. When I started playing starcraft whenever I clicked combo: right mouse click+ alt I got fast menu activated. Pretty annoying xD. If you have in mind that metacity is deafult window manager for gnome, logical conclusion would be that it can be changed in gnome-control-center:
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Thats all. I hope its helps.
Kisses from Serbia.
Last edited by Marko-Serbia (2009-09-07 04:48:36)

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