Medal of Honor PowerPC

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Medal of Honor PowerPC

I bought an old FPS classic that I used on my Windows machine. This was brand new in, in the box and wrapped and on the outside it showed it was compatable with Mac (or so I thought). It had a little squre Mac miley face logo on the game.

It is the Medal of Honor: Breakthrough edition.

It will not play.

My Mac will not support "PowerPC"? What is that and what do I have to do to get the game rnning. The ealy MOH games were fun on Windows and I would just like to try this old game on my brand new Mac Book Pro since I have not found a lot of FPS games I would like for the Mac.

Thanks!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Nov 4, 2011 5:15 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 4, 2011 5:17 PM in response to bubblegun

PPC supported programs will only work on prior versions of OSX, 10.6 and earlier. You would need to install Snow Leopard in order to play this game. PPC was the chip Mac used before switching to an intel chip

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Badunit

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Nov 4, 2011 5:22 PM in response to bubblegun

You might be able to get the Windows version to work using Crossover Games

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/

Free to try.

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bubblegun Author

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Nov 4, 2011 5:23 PM in response to shldr2thewheel

Would Snow Leopard confuse my machine with what I have on my Mac Book Pro. The MPP is only 2 months old. If not a problem what & where to I find Leopard?

Thanks!

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Nov 4, 2011 5:29 PM in response to bubblegun

If you have a MBP that shipped with Lion, there may be a chance that you may still be able to Run Snow Leopard on it. Not Leopard, that is the OSX 10.5, while Snow Leopard is OSX 10.6, the one before Lion. Call your local Apple store and ask them if your MBP can run Snow Lepoard. If it can run Snow Leopard, you would need to revert from Lion back to that OSX. First find out of your machine can run 10.6. If it can, you can later ask how to go from 10.7 to 10.6 or just do a google seach. their are plenty of articles that instruct on how to do this.

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Badunit

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Nov 4, 2011 5:53 PM in response to shldr2thewheel

The question to ask yourself is "Is this game important enough to me that I should uninstall the latest OS and install an older version to play it?".

My opinion of Lion is that it is having teething pains but will get better over time. Some people have gone back to Snow Leopard (or have not yet moved to Lion) for this reason. So you may add that to the equation and determine the move to Snow Leopard is warranted. Another thingto consider, which I'm not sure about, is that iCloud may only work on Lion. If that is the case and if you are using it or planning to, that might be the deciding factor.

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bubblegun Author

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Nov 4, 2011 6:01 PM in response to Badunit

Thanks, I suppose I will just let the legacy games fade into the sunset. I might as well but a few of the better FPS from Aple's App Store. I really do not want to mess with my Mac Book Pro.

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bubblegun Author

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Nov 4, 2011 6:02 PM in response to shldr2thewheel

Thanks, sounds too scary for me. I appreciate the help tough!

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Badunit

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Nov 4, 2011 7:46 PM in response to bubblegun

Like I said, you can try Crossover Games and see how well it works. It ought to run an older Windows game pretty well on your new hardware. If it doesn't, it was a free trial and you can delete it.

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doh1231

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Nov 5, 2011 5:47 AM in response to bubblegun

Badunit has the best suggestion so far.

Can try to run it through Crossover, or to port it yourself with Wineskin... these are methods of running the Windows version of the game on Mac OS X 10.7 without having to have Windows at all.

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bubblegun Author

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Nov 19, 2011 6:29 AM in response to doh1231

Thanks. Crossover looks interesting. I am still torn over trying to use it and port my PC games over or just leave my Mac Bok Pro in Apple OS capability and hope someday they better PC games (like COD MW3) start showing up just for Mac.

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bubblegun Author

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Nov 19, 2011 7:12 AM in response to Badunit

I downloaded it and ran the compatability tester on Crossover.

Crossover will not support any of my Medal of Honor Games; Games for Windows.

Now I have to figure out how to delete Crossover from my Mac.

Gaming will remain limited on Mac I suppose. I know have plenty of Windows CD/DVD games that will make nice beer coasters

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bubblegun Author

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Nov 21, 2011 7:45 AM in response to bubblegun

How do I delete Crossover from my Mac Book Pro?

I tried to drag it to the trash but it won'r let me as the computer states:

"The disk "CrossOver' couldn't be ejected beacuse 'CrossOver' is using it."

Thanks!

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Badunit

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Nov 22, 2011 9:59 AM in response to bubblegun

From the message, it appears you are trying to eject the Crossover disk image. It also appears that Crossover is still running, or left something running. You might try logging out then back in (or restarting). Another option is to start Activity Monitor, find Crossover on the list of processes, stop that process, then eject the disk image.

From the Crossover site, these are the Medal of Honor games that have been tested or reported on:

Allied Assault Breakthrough, if that is one of the ones you have, gets a "silver" medal, meaning it runs well but is not flawless.

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bubblegun Author

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Nov 23, 2011 5:19 AM in response to Badunit

Wow! Thanks!

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