Rosetta Support

Then don't upgrade. There is no solution other than leaving your 7 year old software behind.

Don't hold your breath!

The solution is no Rosetta support in Lion.

Allan

I am as upset as you are, but I knew in advance.

We should all write to Apple directly, because I don't believe posting here will influence Apple.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure writting directly to Apple (there's a feedback form somewhere) will help, but we shouldn't give up.

Another question is: is Rosetta compatible with Lion?

I'm more upset with the companies that haven't upgraded their software than with Apple.

I've kept Snow Leopard on an external hard drive for the one PPC application I feel I must have (Quicken 2007) because their "replacement" application doesn't meet my needs.

No. That is why it was dropped. It would take a total rewrite to get it to work under Lion. Apple position is that the amount of work to support obsolete apps isn't worth it.

Allan

Apple like all companies can't support Legacy Hardware and Apps forever, and PowerPC/Rosetta is prehistoric. Intel is a much more stable platform and allows 64bit apps as well. If companies haven't dropped PPC support yet, they are at fault not Apple. Like others have mentioned if it is that big a deal to keep running 5yr+ apps, then keep a copy of 10.6 or 10.5.

Another question is: is Rosetta compatible with Lion?

There's the important question - and the answer is almost certainly no. There are at least two things that kept Apple from including Rosetta in Lion. First, Rosetta was licensed from Transative, it isn't Apple technology. To include it in Lion would have required Apple to license it again. Second, and almost certainly the killer, Rosetta is a 32 bit technology and Lion is 64. The hurdles of making Rosetta work in Lion without rewriting it as a 64 bit application probably made it a non-starter. Given that it has been 5 years since Apple dropped the PPC platform, developers who continue to actively support the Mac platform already have Intel native applications, with a few exceptions. Intuit being most notable in its lameness.

I do have some "legacy" applications that I need to be able to continue using for business purposes (I don't need any lectures on this). Maybe someone will bring out some emulator software (the equivalent of Parallels which runs Windows and apparently works with Lion) that will emulate essential parts of the Power PC OS and run those old apps?

In the meantime, to prepare for Lion, it would be useful to have an app that checked all of my applications for compatibility (or at least the need for Rosetta) and listed the ones I will lose. Too late once I have installed Lion.

Found some tips about finding Power PC apps here:

http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/15/how-to-check-if-applications-are-incompatible-wit h-mac-os-x-lion/

you still have the way to install 10.6 in virtual machine. VirtualBox is free and 10.6 license allows you run it in VM on mac.

btw I'll try today to add rosetta to 10.7 and tell here if it'll work

Hi,

"btw I'll try today to add rosetta to 10.7 and tell here if it'll work".

Thanks for you are trying to do.

Where you succeed or not, you are to be commended.

I hope you'll succeed!

So, it is easily installable - you should just run custom packages install from 10.6.x dvd and select ONLY Rosetta, but...

It does not work:

Last login: Fri Aug 5 22:33:51 on ttys000

UNIT-5697:~ DS$ /Applications/PhotoFlair.app/Contents/MacOS/PhotoFlair ; exit;

Launch of "PhotoFlair" failed: the PowerPC architecture is no longer supported.

I'll look into it a bit more

No, Rosetta will NOT work.

I managed to run it manually - but it crashes, I mean crashes not some application, but Rosetta translator itself:

Process: translate [330]

Path: /usr/libexec/oah/translate

Identifier: translate

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000ffff8020

I think we should forget it.