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Q: PowerPC Apps Help

I recently purchased Warcraft 3.  (Old times sake)  Trying to install and it's saying that PowerPC applications are not supported.  Any way to get around this?

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on May 6, 2014 1:47 PM

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  • by Ralph Johns (UK),

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) May 6, 2014 1:51 PM in response to RemainAnonymous
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    May 6, 2014 1:51 PM in response to RemainAnonymous

    Hi,

     

    Not really.

    Sheep Shearer offer a way of effectively installing an emulator to run PowerPC app in (akin to running Classic in earlier OS versions).

     

    However you need access to OS 9 Install Disks to extract various things.

     

    I am sure there may be other ways.

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    9:51 pm      Tuesday; May 6, 2014

     

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  • by Niel,

    Niel Niel May 6, 2014 1:56 PM in response to RemainAnonymous
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    May 6, 2014 1:56 PM in response to RemainAnonymous

    You need to run it in Mac OS X 10.6.8 or earlier; on a mid-2010 iMac, this requires using its original disks or running Mac OS X Server 10.6 inside a product such as VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop, or VMware Fusion. SheepShaver is for Classic applications and not PowerPC ones written for Mac OS X.

     

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  • by Ralph Johns (UK),

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) May 6, 2014 1:58 PM in response to Niel
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    May 6, 2014 1:58 PM in response to Niel

    Thanks for the tidy up Niel.

     

     

     

     

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    9:58 pm      Tuesday; May 6, 2014

     

      iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
     G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
     MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
     Mac OS X (10.6.8),
     Couple of iPhones and an iPad
  • by MlchaelLAX,

    MlchaelLAX MlchaelLAX May 6, 2014 4:44 PM in response to Ralph Johns (UK)
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    May 6, 2014 4:44 PM in response to Ralph Johns (UK)

    Ralph Johns (UK) wrote:

     

    Sheep Shearer offer a way of effectively installing an emulator to run PowerPC app in (akin to running Classic in earlier OS versions).

    You've mixed your metaphors!

     

    SheepShaver will run the older Classic apps pre-OS X.  

     

    PowerPC apps generally refers to the software written for OS X that ran on the older PowerPC CPU Macs (G3, G4 & G5's: from the mid-1990's until 2006, when all Macs migrated to the Intel CPU).

  • by RemainAnonymous,

    RemainAnonymous RemainAnonymous May 6, 2014 8:13 PM in response to RemainAnonymous
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    May 6, 2014 8:13 PM in response to RemainAnonymous

    Thanks for the replies.

     

    I have a mid-2010 iMac and have of course upgraded to the latest version of Mavericks (OS X 10.9.2).

     

    I tried to download SheepShaver, but it would not let me.  Not a recognized developer or something like that.

     

    What would the step by step be? Dumb it down for me.

     

    Thanks again for the help!

  • by MlchaelLAX,

    MlchaelLAX MlchaelLAX May 6, 2014 10:17 PM in response to RemainAnonymous
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    May 6, 2014 10:17 PM in response to RemainAnonymous

    According to information gleaned from Wikipedia and Battlenet website, Warcraft 3 is a Universal application, which means it will run on an Intel Mac.  However apparently the installer app is PowerPC, which requires Rosetta; which was eliminated from OS X starting with Lion.  So forget all about SheepShaver...

     

    Best suggestion:

     

    Partition the hard drive on your 2010 iMac or add an external drive and install Snow Leopard (with the optional Rosetta) on it.  Then install Warcraft 3 and use "dual-boot" (System Preferences:Startup Disk) to boot into either Snow Leopard or Mavericks as needed.