Robert P2

Q: alternative virtual PPC to Rosetta?

Hi all, do any of you know of an alternative virtual Power PC emulator that will run on Intel macs (within Snow Leopard)

I'm looking for a more separate environment than Rosetta, I have a couple of legacy apps (including Freehand MX) that I need to run, and each time I upgrade to a new Mac OS they work less and less successfully in Rosetta

Ideally I would love to have a sandboxed virtual PPC environment that I could install Tiger to run my apps,

any ideas?

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Mac Pro 2.8 octo, G4 powerbook 17", Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Feb 21, 2011 2:39 AM

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  • by a brody,

    a brody a brody Feb 22, 2011 7:28 AM in response to a brody
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    Feb 22, 2011 7:28 AM in response to a brody
    Oh here is the PDF creation software I was talking about:

    http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html

    I was wrong about the name, but this could help in your moving files back and forth.
  • by Tom in London,

    Tom in London Tom in London Feb 22, 2011 7:33 AM in response to a brody
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    Feb 22, 2011 7:33 AM in response to a brody
    Yeah but copy/paste from an old file open on the older Mac, to a newer file in a different app on the new Mac? That's what I would need to do.

    Anyway I'm still hoping it won't come to that and that either (a) Apple will show some understanding and hang on in there with Rosetta or (b) somebody will come up with the equivalent of Rosetta. It would be worth my while, for my business, to pay for a good emulator. A lot more worthwhile than **ing around with saving files into new formats and moving them from an old computer to a new one. Worth $1,000s, potentially.
  • by a brody,

    a brody a brody Feb 22, 2011 7:49 AM in response to Tom in London
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    Feb 22, 2011 7:49 AM in response to Tom in London
    Yeah but copy/paste from an old file open on the older Mac, to a newer file in a different app on the new Mac? That's what I would need to do.


    The closest you'll come to that is Virtual Network Clients (VNC) They often support copy/pasting between machines. Apple has a Remote Desktop software that may work between PowerPC and Intel. People in this forum might be able to tell you if it is possible the way you want:

    http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1007
  • by Tom in London,

    Tom in London Tom in London Feb 22, 2011 9:59 AM in response to a brody
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    Feb 22, 2011 9:59 AM in response to a brody
    Yes- this probably does the same thing:

    http://tinyurl.com/4ztdlc3

    (pretty lady not included in monthly rate)

    But keeping Rosetta would be the best option

  • by Robert P2,

    Robert P2 Robert P2 Feb 22, 2011 11:57 PM in response to a brody
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    Feb 22, 2011 11:57 PM in response to a brody
    (a brody): There is a software called PDF Creator for Mac OS 9 that at least will make anything you can print into a PDF that you can then move to Mac OS X over a network. Mac OS X networks with Mac OS 9 like this*:

    http://www.macmaps.com/network9X.html

    thanks a brody, I think you have missunderstood the problem, it's not an OS9 issue for me at least, I haven't used OS9 for years,

    it's running a PPC version of OSX successfully that it the issue for me, Rosetta just isn't working that well any more,
    Tiger 10.4 was the last rock solid PPC platform imho

    I think I'll just have to buy a few G4 Mac minis on ebay, install new hard drives and keep them on the shelf for future use, not a terrible solution for now I guess but it would be nice to have other options using newer hardware going forward

    for anyone that's interested, I'm a member of the Free Freehand campaign http://www.freefreehand.org/
  • by lkrupp,

    lkrupp lkrupp Mar 1, 2011 6:38 PM in response to Allan Eckert
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    Mar 1, 2011 6:38 PM in response to Allan Eckert
    Allan Eckert wrote:
    Could you please provide use with details about exactly what you find wrong or lacking with Rosetta? Maybe if you told us more, we might come up with solutions to help you.

    Well I myself would like to know about an alternative to Rosetta since Rosetta is apparently history in the upcoming OS X Lion. Developer previews state that Rosetta will no longer be supported. So those of us who have some PPC apps, like Quicken 2007 for example, will be needing an alternative if we want to move to OS X Lion. We may be forced to run Leopard or Snow Leopard in virtual machines if we want to run PPC code.
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