Do any good games actually work on the new iMac?

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Do any good games actually work on the new iMac?

I have been looking to buy a computer game to play on my new iMac - only to find most of the ones I fancy will not work properly on the new iMacs
I'd be grateful for info about games that do work - when I looked on Amazon the comments to most games say they don't work on 10.9, even though they say mac compatible

I prefer things like MYST /Riven (yeah I know they stopped working ages ago) perhaps Assassins creed looks interesting....not too keen on SIMS or world building, prefer immersive sort of environments wth unhurried pace

Not into shoot 'em ups at all though
(tried searching for 'games' but nothing came up)

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 3.5Ghz i7, 24GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX 780M

Posted on Apr 27, 2014 2:07 AM

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Answer 1

Klaus1

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Apr 27, 2014 2:36 AM in response to Digital Finger

Have you looked in the App Store?

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Rudegar

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Apr 27, 2014 3:12 AM in response to Digital Finger

older games and programs that rely on the powerpc emulation Rosetta don't work any more

as powerpc macs are old newer programs and apps will use cocoa not Rosetta read more here

http://www.cultofmac.com/103458/os-x-lion-kills-rosetta-powerpc-support-heres-wh at-to-do-about-it/

you can also check steam for games they seem to have many mac supprted games

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Answer 3

May 28, 2014 3:40 PM in response to Klaus1

well I have searched the apple site for games and apps but not found anything

should I be searching for another term or elsewhere?

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Klaus1

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May 28, 2014 3:45 PM in response to Digital Finger

Good place to look for software:

http://www.macupdate.com/

And for free alternatives to some popular software packages:

http://alternativeto.net/

(If you see an ad there for something called MacKeeper, ignore it and on no account install it - it is malware.)

And there is of course also the App Store!

Not to mention Google....

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Answer 5

Jul 10, 2016 2:22 PM in response to Digital Finger

For Myst;

RealMyst Masterpiece Edition: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/realmyst-masterpiece-edition/id804096519?mt=12

Riven: Re: Is there a way to play Riven on the latest OS X?

Exile: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/923782-Mac-Myst-III-Installer-New-ResidualV M-Edition

Revelation: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/450661-Mac-Myst-IV-Universal-Installer

End of Ages (only available on Mac OS X Snow Leopard): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/522679/Myst/index.html

You'll have to run Snow Leopard either on a separate partition on your hard drive, or in a virtual machine, but if you want to rum Snow Leopard in a virtual machine, you'll need Snow Leopard Server.

To buy one of these operating systems, you have to call Apple, because they're not to be found in the online store.

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