I know this has probably been asked, but I'm trying to install Warcraft 3 on my Macbook Pro, and everytime I try to install it, it says something about how powerpc doesn't work on macs anymore...
anyway around this? I want to install this game so bad.
Thanks very much.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
You have a MacBook Pro, so it has an Intel processor. If Warcraft 3 is a PowerPC application, then it will not work on Macs that run Lion (10.7.x). Until Snow Leopard (10.6.x), Mac OS X had a "translator" called Rosetta that translated PowerPC code into Intel code, on the fly. So PowerPC apps would run on Intel Macs, with a small performance penalty due to Rosetta doing its thing. Lion no longer supports Rosetta.
This web page has some info about Warcraft 3 supporting Lion.
http://www.lancraftwc3.com/2011/08/warcraft-3-mac-os-x-107-support.html
If you have an external drive, you could install Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on it, select it as the startup disk and start up from it, and install Warcraft 3 on it. But this would only work if your MacBook Pro is an older model (not a brand new one that came with Lion pre-installed).
This website will tell you if your MacBook Pro supports 10.6.8 or earlier at the bottom of the page.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2455
Note: PPC indicates you have a PowerPC chip Mac, which predates 2006. MacBook Pros are Intel. I'm asking the moderator move this thread to the correct forum. No action is needed on your part.
Does Warcraft 3 work on mac?
