Running "Classic Application" in Mac OS X v10.6.2 Snow Leopard

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Running "Classic Application" in Mac OS X v10.6.2 Snow Leopard

Hello, I'm trying to run a Classic Application on Mac OS X v10.6.2 Snow Leopard... goes by the name of "Titanic Adventure Out of Time." When I go to install it I get the message "You can't open the application Titanic because the Classic environment is no longer supported." I'm wondering how I will be able to get this to work on my MacBook. I've read a few sites which talk of some sort of emulator, or mounting it with Roxio Toast? Is this correct?

Macbook aluminum 2.0GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.7), iPhone 3g 8gb

Posted on Mar 16, 2010 12:30 PM

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Answer 1

V.K.

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Mar 16, 2010 12:51 PM in response to kv991

the only way to possibly run classic apps on your computer is by using a classic emulator Sheepshaver
http://theappleblog.com/2006/07/01/classic-on-intel-macs-courtesy-of-sheepshaver /
but that's quite tricky to set up. a better option might be to get a cheap used PPC mac and run classic on that. not sure it's worth it for one game though.

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thomas_r.

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Mar 16, 2010 2:06 PM in response to kv991

I'm not sure what whoever pointed you to Toast was talking about... clearly, they didn't either.

The emulator, as V.K. pointed out, is called SheepShaver. However, one major problem to getting it set up is that you must have an old PowerPC Mac from which to capture an image of the ROM. You can't download an image of the ROM, since that would be classified as piracy. If you have an old machine from which to create a ROM image, you also have an old machine on which you could run the game. That would undoubtedly be easier and perform better than an emulated PowerPC environment on an Intel machine.

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a brody

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Mar 16, 2010 2:28 PM in response to kv991

Believe it or not you may have an easier time running that program in Windows on your Mac! That game was made for Windows, and there is better old Windows support for Intel Macs than there is Mac OS 9 support. See my FAQ*:

http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#WINTEL

And see http://www.macmaps.com/macgamepages.html

to see if there are any patches to make it Mac OS X Intel compatible.

- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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