PowerPC applications no longer supported

Yes.

help, since my imovie HD movie app isn't working any longer is there an app for downloading my movies from my movie camera? I need to send a clip and have no idea of what to do, just short of uninstalling Lion?!!

After you name it and choose the size. What do you put in as for the Format?

I am having the same problem with my Sims 2. Did you ever figure yours out?

Kate_Giganova, I am having the same problems with installing my Sims 2 on my new MacBook Pro. Did you ever figure yours out?

There is nothing to figure out. PPC support has gone, so either wait for an update from the developers of Sims or else run Snow Leopard, if your Mac is able to, as described earlier in this thread.

Good Luck

Pete

Really annoyed about this. I have every single Sims 2 expansion pack and all i want is to reinstall the games and play again. I prefer Sims 2 to Sims 3 (they're not even close in my opinion) and am greatly upset + disappointed + sad + angry that i can't play anymore because of the update. This was during the days where we had to buy a separate, special Sims game that was developed specifically for Apple and each expansion pack cost me about MYR157. My cousin, who uses a PC, has all of the expansion packs as well and he collected most if not all of them before i did. Because of the specificatons, i obviously could not borrow his CDs to install onto my Mac desktop and had to buy my own. Now they are all just sitting on my shelf, unable to be played, collecting dust. This is really upsetting to me.

tifzlan wrote:

Really annoyed about this. I have every single Sims 2 expansion pack and all i want is to reinstall the games and play again. I prefer Sims 2 to Sims 3 (they're not even close in my opinion) and am greatly upset + disappointed + sad + angry that i can't play anymore because of the update. This was during the days where we had to buy a separate, special Sims game that was developed specifically for Apple and each expansion pack cost me about MYR157. My cousin, who uses a PC, has all of the expansion packs as well and he collected most if not all of them before i did. Because of the specificatons, i obviously could not borrow his CDs to install onto my Mac desktop and had to buy my own. Now they are all just sitting on my shelf, unable to be played, collecting dust. This is really upsetting to me.

This thread is a year old. Others have learned to deal with it in one of the suggested ways in this thread. You will gain nothing tacking on to threads this old. Search on how to restore or install Snow Leopard. If you have Lion, you should have read up and thought your purchase through first.

Pete

Sorry for wanting to voice out my frustations. I bought all the games prior to the OS update, which wasn't even done by me but my dad. I haven't been playing the Sims for a long time and decided to reinstall the game yesterday after months of having our desktop sent away for repair only to get the error message. I was busy with school throughout the whole of last year. So naturally, i decided to search on what the error message meant and i came across this thread. But thanks anyway. I will also learn to "deal with it".

Please help me!

I am trying to intall a game to my MAC OS X 10.7.2, But it is saying that ' You can't open the application installer because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. '

Is it possible to downgrade to an older mac version?

PLEASE HELP ! THIS IS SO ANNOYING!

EXACT SAME ISSUE 😟

Here is a recent post I assembled for a similar question:

Unfortunately you got caught up in the minor miracle of Rosetta. Originally licensed by Apple when it migrated from the PowerPC CPU platform that it had used from the mid-1990's until the Intel CPU platform in 2006, Rosetta allowed Mac users to continue to use their library of PPC software transparently in emulation.

However, Apple's license to continue to use this technology expired with new releases of OS X commencing with Lion (and now Mountain Lion). While educational efforts have been made over the last 6 years, the fact is that Rosetta was SO successful that many users were caught unaware UNTIL they upgraded to Lion or Mountain Lion.

Workarounds:

1. If your Mac will support it, restore OS X Snow Leopard;

2. If your Mac will support it, partition your hard drive or add an external hard drive and install Snow Leopard into it and use the "dual-boot" method to choose between your PowerPC software or Lion/Mt. Lion;

3. Upgrade your software to Intel compatible versions if they are available, or find alternative software that will;

3. Install Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels:

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Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

NOTE: STEP ONE of the instructions must currently be completed on a Snow Leopard or Lion Mac and the resulting modified Snow Leopard.cdr install file can then be moved over to your Mountain Lion Mac for completion of the remaining steps. A recent poster has offered a solution for Mountain Lion users that do not have access to Snow Leopard or Lion Macs.

NOTE 2: Computer games with complex, 3D or fast motion graphics make not work well or at all in virtualization.

Thank you! I will try this!

This is what worked for me, if you have another Mac , laptop or other, simply create a share on a second computer and copy the app you want to install to that shared location, then from the Mac that you want to install the .App on simply browse to that shared folder on the second Mac and run the install over the network , this worked for me on a few different apps and I was able to reproduce this fix on 3 different sytems.

Good Luck