Is Rosetta included on the 10.6.8 installation disc

If you got a statement saying "Classic" is no longer available, it is possible you have Appleworks 6.2.7 or earlier instead of 6.2.9. 5 will only run in Classic which is not directly available on Snow Leopard. It is far cheaper to obtain a copy of the last Appleworks than another PowerPC to obtain a ROM file from to run something known as Sheepshaver. Furthermore, you are limited to Mac OS 9.0.4 which is not compatible with the Classic environment on PowerPC when using Sheepshaver. That needs 9.1, 9.2.1, or 9.2.2. I don't recommend running Sheepshaver as licenses themselves are far more questionable with it than with Rosetta. I'm uncertain whether 6.2.8 or 6.2.7 will run in Rosetta or not, but know 6.2.9 will.

Now Appleworks 6.2.9 is available for Snow Leopard or earlier, and as mentioned Rosetta will automatically download when you launch Appleworks 6.2.9 for the first time or any PowerPC application that runs natively in Mac OS X for PowerPC that doesn't require PowerPC drivers. Stuff that requires PowerPC drivers will not run in Snow Leopard, and requires a PowerPC Mac to run in Mac OS X.

Some alternatives are on this tip:

http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2522

as a brody indicates, you need Appleworks v6 to run in Snow Leopard and Appleworks v6 requires Rosetta to be installed into Snow Leopard.

Rosetta is an optional install when you first installed Snow Leopard, but even if you did not originally install it, the first time you attempt to run a PowerPC application, it will direct you to a download of Rosetta from Apple's servers on the internet.

FWIW: I recently created a Snow Leopard partition on my 2011 Mac Mini, and I forgot to optionally install both Rosetta and QuickTime 7, which I always like to install in Snow Leopard. When I attempted to run a PowerPC app, it offered me the Rosetta download, which I accepted and now my PowerPC apps run fine.

But in answer to your original question, yes, you can use the Snow Leopard Install DVD to also install Rosetta after the fact (and QuickTime 7, too!)

If you have an earlier version of Appleworks 6 and you can get it to install, you can download the Appleworks v6.2.9 updater from Apple and update to the latest version available, here:

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL617?locale=en_US

Here is how it goes.

Installing During Upgrade
To install Rosetta during your upgrade from Mac OS X 10.6 to Mac OS X 10.6, do this:

• Insert the Snow Leopard installer DVD into your Mac, and launch the installer application.
• If you have more than one disk connected to your Mac, select the hard drive where you want to install Snow Leopard.
• Click Customize.
• Check Rosetta.
• Click OK.

At this point Rosetta downloads and installs.

Sorry, wrongly addressed/ here is my post.

As far as I know, Rosetta is an integral part of OSX Snow leopard 10.6.3, which is how a newly purchased disc would arrive. You are then obliged to update it via the 10.6.8 Cpmbo update. I believe there is also a 10.6.8 supplemental update that covers some security factors.

It is a download, on demand I believe, try to run a program that need Rosetta.

Sorry Csound. Wrongly addressed.