Dear all , i have just bought age of empires two on disc for mac and it will not let me play it , this is a pain in the backside as i spent good money on that and im wondering how i can make it so i can play it ? do i need to download a new software ?

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Dear all , i have just bought age of empires two on disc for mac and it will not let me play it , this is a pain in the backside as i spent good money on that and im wondering how i can make it so i can play it ? do i need to download a new software ?

Dear all , i have just bought age of empires two on disc for mac and it will not let me play it , this is a pain in the backside as i spent good money on that and im wondering how i can make it so i can play it ? do i need to download a new software ? or revert back to the old one ? i heard about apple getting rid of rosetta, frankly this has been a huge pain as i can no longer play games or use apps which used powerpc and rosetta.

thanks in advance..

MacBook Pro, iOS 6.0.2

Posted on Dec 28, 2012 5:27 AM

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MlchaelLAX

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Dec 29, 2012 10:28 AM in response to TomLew10

Released in 1999, Ages of Empire II: The Age of Kings for Mac must have been written for Mac OS 9. Up through OS X Tiger for PPC, it could then run in the Classic Environment.

With the newer Intel Macs, you have to run a Classic emulator such as SheepShaver, which requires you to extract the Mac ROMs from your older Classic Mac and then install Mac OS 9.

A related program is Chubby Bunny, which comes bundled with all of that included.

More information on SheepShaver:

http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver_mac_os_x_setup

and

http://www.everymac.com/mac-answers/mac-os-9-classic-support-faq/run-macos-9-on- intel-macs.html

and more information on Chubby Bunny:

http://www.macwindows.com/OS9_on_Intel_Mac.html#092408b

and

http://hackthemac.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/chubby-bunny-old-virtual-machine.html

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