*Edit: I will be attempting to get Darthmod 8.0 working on my mac this week. Will post results here.
for those curious about darthmod, it is possible to get it working on your mac. However so far every time I have tried, and anyone else I have heard from, we have found missing unit cards & graphics errors. I'm going to take a look at it again, but the prognosis is not good.
Update (9/18/2014): Downloaded files for Darthmod 8.0 last night! Forgot how many .packs are in this mod. Will begin testing tonight or tomorrow.
Update (9/19/2014): Have not yet had a chance to give this a shot. Will post on Darthmod forum to try to get .pack list form windows users
Update (9/24/2014: Crash
I used the minimum list of .packs provided to windows users to try to get this working. Didn't even get an error report. Just clicked the "play" button in the launcher window, and everything just quit, no errors. Just nothing. So that was frustrating. I have had quite a few folks ask me about the progress on this one. I am going to take another stab at it this weekend.
Update (10/01/2014): Ok so I removed all the darth mod .packs and ran it with only the startpos.esf & .lua files, and it crashed. I suspect the issue is with these files. I am going to redownload and reinstall Darthmod, because in the download i have there is no darthcampaign.pack which was listed in the installation instructions.
Update (10/02/2014): It looks like my Macbook is a little fried. Won't turn on and a weird burning smell coming from it. Probably not a good sign. This is gonna slow down Darthmod testing a little...
Update (10/22/2014): Mac is very much fried. Received the D.O.A from the Apple Store. I still have access to computers at work, but nothing to do any more comprehensive testing or gaming at all. Time to start saving for a new mac
Update (12/10/2014):
Attempting to re-download my digital copy of Empire from Amazon!!!! (Yay, hate Amazon, but love the game.)
-I sent a PM to Darth to see if he would send us a list of the .packs to run to get a manual install of Darthmod to work on Empire. No response yet. -Also on page 10 of this forum SWB got Darthmod working on NTW. I posted a link to that and to another post by FierceBardRabbit where he walks through the process of getting darthmod for NTW to work on his iMac, which could offer insight on how to get it working for Empire.
Update (2/4/2015): Ok got Empire back up and running on a borrowed iMac. Had some communication with Darth, he doesn't have time to sort out which files are causing issues on mac. With the issues coming from the new version of Imperial Destroyer, I am going to focus my efforts on getting that fully functioning again. Imperial Destroyer has many features from Darthmod, and as Darth seems to have moved on to newer games, and Imperial Destroyer continues to live I think we should focus our efforts on keeping Imperial Destroyer mac compatible.