For those who don't know, I now have a Mac. All blizzard games (with the exception of the first Diablo) work on the Mac. I tried playing starcraft, but the graphics were terrible. It was extreamly bright, and it seems like it is not displaying all the colors it should. Anyone know how to fix this?

Fix your gamma correction on the monitor itself?

Did you save your receipt?

Could you please post your specs and the operating system that you are currently using.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/imac

the 20 Inch 2.66 GHz.

does it look like this:
http://machost.exofire.net/starcraft.png

No, its in a lower color level, and its fullscreen, with black bars on the side (because of the widescreen)

I minimized my screen using cmd-m, then took a screenshot.
There usually are bars on the side because you have widescreen, there might be a way to fix that, but I don't care about that.
Can you press cmd-m when starcraft is loaded, and then press "cmd+shift+3" to take a screenshot, and upload the picture from your desktop (I think) so i can see?

Alright, minimized, it looks exactly like yours (normal). But do I have to run it windowed to stop it from getting all ugly on me?

How do you window it? And could't you just make the window really big?

Thats what makes the graphics distorted...

Window Mode on the make is Command + M

Okay, I just realized now about some distortions and bad graphics, myself. Like when you go to login to b.net, the stats on the right are all black so you can't see them. This is nothing to do with the Mac graphics. It is just a very old game that isn't really meant to be run on a brand new computer like the one you have, and the one I have. Blizzard made a patch just so it would run on Leopard (Intel), and they also made a carbon version so it would run on OS X. The editor does not work, because there is no Carbon editor. However there are many petitions for that, but Blizzard doesn't listen to petitions. You'll just have to play with the way it displays. I don't know if you can change it to full screen, I highly doubt it. I never really minded it. The black bars remind me I'm playing an old game. Just like watching widescreen movies on a old TV; Two black bars on top and bottom.

You'll just have to put up with it. If you can't stand it, wait until Starcraft II which is meant to be run on the hardware you have.

Best way to fix this problem:

Buy a PC.

He already has a PC.

You mean a Windows. PC is a SICK generalization for a Windows computer, a PC is a desktop computer.

Funny, my fairly new Intel Mac (currently running OS 10.5.5) has no issues that I've noticed with Starcraft graphics in either windowed or fullscreen mode (though in the latter it needs black bars on either side to keep the correct aspect ratio). Also, it's far from impossible to get StarEdit running on a modern Mac, if you need to do so (which I don't, as I can simply run SCMDraft 2 in a Windows XP virtual machine, or if I'm willing to go through the hassle, boot in XP). I won't insult your intelligence by going into details, but you can get a free emulator for OS9 fairly easily, and once that is set up, just put your Starcraft folder into its Shared folder and run StarEdit within the emulator.

PC is used for anything non-mac and will continue being used that way because no one is ever going to say "Oh I have a Windows" or "Oh I have a Linux", they're simply not referred to in that fashion because of the awkwardness.

Well if you want to get technical about it.
PC is a SICK generalization for a desktop computer.
PC stands for Personal Computer
Meaning it could even be a calculator.


(And yes PC means anything that's not Mac.)

"Oh I have a Windows" and it runs StarCraft good.

But srsly, His computer is either Personal or Public, and if you're going to be gaming on it, its usually personal.

It's public I don't see me getting windows anytime soon.

Alright, theres a way for me to run StarEdit...but is there a way to run SCMDraft?

torrenting windows is so easy... even to get the WGA stuff.

other than that, 3 ways to do the equivalent stuff as SCMDraft. Get someone at a mac filesharing community to make a Cider port of it (that is to "mac-ize" it), get Crossover Mac (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/) or get Unknown Edit for mac, made by Ian (http://www.warboards.org/showthread.php?t=32386)