will mountain lion run powerpc (rosetta)

I have no idea what mountian lion might be.

If you are refering to lion then the answer is no.

Allan

os757 wrote:

hi

im a student who needs powerpc to run on my mac is there any chance that mountain lion will run powerpc?

thanks in advance

None, zip, nada.

Allan Eckert wrote:

I have no idea what mountian lion might be.

OS X 10.8 due out this Summer, see: mountain-lion

Chance? About the same as the chance of a snowball in the Biblical hot place. 😉

In other words, while none of us here can say with absolute certainty, it's almost a foregone conclusion that PowerPC support is dead and buried. Apple discontinued the last PowerPC Mac almost six years ago now, which has given developers ample opportunity to release versions of their apps that support Intel, so there's little business justification for Apple to dedicate the engineering and support necessary to provide continued support nor non-Intel applications. The PPC ship has almost without question sailed off into the sunset.

Regards.

Dave is much more eloquent about it.

No, 10.8 will not run Rosetta or PPC apps. Since 10.7 dropped support for Rosetta why would your think it would be added back in?

Possibly because there are some apps that need it and are no longer supported on MAC OS, they are only now supported on alternative platforms that come from that other well known OS supplier.

It is just possible that Apple have received enough complaints that they may decide to put it back.

It's a shame there is no good drawing program for the Mac any longer. I have tried a lot and none come anywhere near the performance of Canvas which is stuck at Snow Leopard because of Rosetta.

I'm also going to have to give up on Eudora after 20 years. I have yet to find a better mail program. At least the current ones are not so far behind.

It's a shame there is no good drawing program for the Mac any longer. I have tried a lot and none come anywhere near the performance of Canvas which is stuck at Snow Leopard because of Rosetta.

No, it is stuck at Snow Leopard because there is not enough value in it for the developer to create an Intel version. If enough people were willing to pay for it, they would have created an Intel version.

If you would whine and moan on the developers maybe they might write an Intel version just to quiet you up.

Allan

If Lion doesn't support it, I don't think that Mountain Lion would take a step backwards.

Barney and Allan,

You are right the best solution would be a new Mac version of the software, sadly this is unlikely to happen because Apple are no longer interested in engineering type programs.

The program was originally written for Mac. The developers brought out a windows version and was promptly bought by ACD who have done nothing to further the Mac version whilst bringing out 3 revisions of the windows version. The Mac community has been on at them for years to bring out a new Mac version but the advent of parallels, fusion, and wine have allowed ACD to avoid the issue. The Mac interface is far better, particularly on an extended desktop.

The problem is a general one, there are just not enough good engineering solutions on the Mac platform. This was not the case 20 years ago when many engineering programs started life on the Mac because of its better interface and high processing power. Sadly Mac processing power now lags behind the PC world because of the time Apple takes to implement new processors into their machines. How long has it taken for i7s to get into Macs?

Tony

It is not that Apple is not interested in engineering apps, it is

the application developers that have not been interested.

That may be slowl beginning to change though, as there

is now a version of AutoCAD light out for the MAC as

well as some other CAD companies releasing MAC products.

Also, a Microchip, an embedded processor company, has

released a Mac version of their development system.

So, the pendulum may be swinging back in the Mac direction.

However, some of the engineering applications have become

so monsterous that porting to any platform, OSX or Linux, is

just to big a task.

So, the pendulum may be swinging back in the Mac direction.

I hope you are right.

It seems that lately the Mac target audience is 8 to 20 year olds, whose primary mission in life is managing their social media.

AutoCAD light is only sold through the Mac App Store which means many companies cannot or will not buy it. (Must be on disk to buy.)

Hello

How about Rosetta?

I have used 2 sophisticated specialist medical software applications since 1987, my whole practice is there, but I cannot use Lion as Lion rejects Rosetta. How about Mountain Lion?

Thanks, Fran

medorrhinum wrote:

Hello

How about Rosetta?

I have used 2 sophisticated specialist medical software applications since 1987, my whole practice is there, but I cannot use Lion as Lion rejects Rosetta. How about Mountain Lion?

Thanks, Fran

As above. I don't believe you will ever see Rosetta again. They began phasing PPC programs out seven years ago and Rosetta in Snow Leopard was pretty much a last chance courtesy for people to finish updating their programs to Intel ones. I keep a seperate Snow Leopard partition in case I run into something I have not yet converted over. Snow Leopard will be best for you until the makers of the specialist software you use update their software.

Pete

Have you been paying attention in this thread? No. It will not. If you MUST use 30-year-old software, you will need to use an older Mac (find them on eBay, etc). You can't have it both ways, with both the oldest software and the newest Macs.

Matt