Chris J Witt

Q: Rosetta and Lion - Is there a solution?

I'm considering upgrading to Lion, mostly due to the fact it has drivers for Nvidia's 500 Series, so ATY_Init will be happy with it.

But, one problem... No rosetta, and a lot of the programs I use or test are not universal binary (Primarily Cocoa PPC or Carbon). So that raises the issue.

 

How would I go about getting Rosetta on to Lion? I'm assuming that it wouldn't be as simple as copying some Frameworks and Kexts... Do any solutions exist for this yet, like hacks or mods, or is it impossible? (Or too soon?)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 2:30 AM

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  • by cruttis,

    cruttis cruttis Feb 16, 2014 4:21 PM in response to FatMac>MacPro
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    Feb 16, 2014 4:21 PM in response to FatMac>MacPro

    The Pro came with a broken HD and rather than buy a display I was very intrigued by the confusing reports of using the late 2009 27" iMac as a display. I cloned my working Firewire 'test' 10.9.1 to a 1 TB Barracuda using a USB sled and fitted it to the Pro.

     

    The Pro came with a nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT so I bought a Display-Port to Mini Display-Port cable to use the iMac display.

     

    The Pro had boot problems traced to pin 20 of the purchased cable being connected, not to VESA standards. When I modified the cable to remove pin 20 all was well.

     

    One gets attached to one's Mac, for me especially the iMac, and this was my solution to retain Rosetta although I am slowly transferring to Entourage for email even though it's also no longer supported. It was the best emailer capable of transferring my Eudora stuff.

     

    When I find a suitable (used) comparable display, the iMac will be placed in storage after internal cleaning.

  • by FatMac>MacPro,

    FatMac>MacPro FatMac>MacPro Feb 16, 2014 7:26 PM in response to cruttis
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    Feb 16, 2014 7:26 PM in response to cruttis

    cruttis wrote:

     

    ...When I find a suitable (used) comparable display, the iMac will be placed in storage after internal cleaning.

    Before you do that, you can clone the SL drive to another HD in the Mac Pro and apply the combo 10.6.8 update to it before you boot from it, or since Mavericks likely won't let you do that while booted in 10.9.1, create a bootable SL USB flash drive with 10.6.8 on it, boot from that and apply the combo updater. Either way should customize the HD for use with the Mac Pro. Or, if you have the retail SL installer, just reinstall SL and update. Its the easiest way to keep all your SL/related software working without reinstallation.

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