What's the easiest way to run old PowerPC programs? Switch to windows? Has somebody made a Rosetta-style application that works for for newer OS?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
PowerPC will not run on v10.9 Mavericks.... sorry.
Rosetta could be run on Macs with v10.6 installed but not beyond v10.6.
Mac OS X 10.6: If you need to install Rosetta
Run PowerPC apps on Windows? No ...
If your Mac can run Snow Leopard, partition the drive and install Snow Leopard on that partition. Then, when you need to run the PPC Apps, boot into Snow Leopard.
skryble wrote:
Has somebody made a Rosetta-style application that works for for newer OS?
What application do you need that is still PPC? The vast majority of apps have been updated to Intel code, or there are other apps that will read the same data or do the same job.
Being hostage to "vintage" software that is unsupported or not being developed is not a good place to be. Hardware changes and progresses; OSes advance and support the new hardware; software must run on the new OS. Only your data, hopefully, will be constant: everything else will change and must be migrated, updated or switched.
Old Bioware games. I don't need anything - but it's a shame that some of the few good games that once were Mac-compatible are now lost to time.
That does not look like a Rosetta error, more like a missing plugin, what happens when you click the arrow ?
Here is a recent post I assembled on this subject:
Unfortunately you got caught up in the minor miracle of Rosetta. Originally licensed by Apple when it migrated from the PowerPC CPU platform that it had used from the mid-1990's until the Intel CPU platform in 2006, Rosetta allowed Mac users to continue to use their library of PPC software transparently in emulation.
However, Apple's license to continue to use this technology expired with new releases of OS X commencing with Lion (and now Mountain Lion). While educational efforts have been made over the last 7 years, the fact is that Rosetta was SO successful that many users were caught unaware UNTIL they upgraded to Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks.
Workarounds:
1. If your Mac will support it, restore OS X Snow Leopard;
2. If your Mac will support it, partition your hard drive or add an external hard drive and install Snow Leopard into it and use the "dual-boot" method to choose between your PowerPC software or Lion/Mt. Lion/Mavericks;
3. Upgrade your software to Intel compatible versions if they are available, or find alternative software that will open your data files, modify them and save them;
4. Install Snow Leopard Server (with Rosetta) into Parallels or VMWare Fusion. Apple is now selling Snow Leopard Server for only $19.99 + sales tax & shipping; call 1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753). This solution will give you concurrent use of your PowerPC applications and access to Lion, Mt. Lion or Mavericks.
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NOTE: Computer games with complex, 3D or fast motion graphics make not work well or at all in virtualization
More information here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
Installing Snow Leopard Server into Parallels for DUMMIES!:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=17285039&postcount=564
benwiggy wrote:
skryble wrote:
Has somebody made a Rosetta-style application that works for for newer OS?
What application do you need that is still PPC? The vast majority of apps have been updated to Intel code, or there are other apps that will read the same data or do the same job.
Being hostage to "vintage" software that is unsupported or not being developed is not a good place to be. Hardware changes and progresses; OSes advance and support the new hardware; software must run on the new OS. Only your data, hopefully, will be constant: everything else will change and must be migrated, updated or switched.
You would be shocked at the attitude of some software publishers. I used to work for a company that used what was at the time effectively the only standalone Mac payroll application (in the UK). It originally only ran in Classic but I seem to remember it eventually managed to run as a PowerPC Cocoa application. The publishers 'solution' to providing a new updated Intel Mac compatible version was to tell use to buy Parallels and run the Windows version, they even had the gall to write a letter to MacUser Magazine defending this postition. This of course would mean not only having to buy Parallels, but also a full Windows OS, and anti-virus and a memory upgrade for the Mac making it massively more expensive.
(It should be noted I had repeatedly tried to push the accounts department to getting rid of this software and warned them they were running a risk of not having a machine able to run it since you could no longer buy PowerPCs and existing ones would gradually die of old age.)
I have also in the past seen numerous other companies advertising their products as being 'Mac compatible' and it is only when you check the small print that this is via Parallels or similar solution. ðŸ˜
John Lockwood wrote:
I have also in the past seen numerous other companies advertising their products as being 'Mac compatible' and it is only when you check the small print that this is via Parallels or similar solution. ðŸ˜
Do you have one or two examples of this practice that you can cite?
Beaing a dead horse - PowerPC in Mavericks
