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Rosetta, Macromedia Studio 8 on a 2013 iMac

eljanitor

eljanitor

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I have Macromedia Studio 8 and i would like to use it on my 2013 iMac. I was told that I could buy parallels and Install Snow leopard on my new iMac, so I can run Macromedia 8. I'm not sure what to do as parallels wont support Rosetta which I need to run Macromedia Studio 8. I am really frustrated and I was wondering how I can do this?
 
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Intell

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When you install Snow Leopard Sever in Parallels, you can use it and Rosetta within Snow Leopard Server to run PowerPC applications on newer Macs.
 
eljanitor

eljanitor

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It has to be Snow Leopard Server? It cant just be Snow Leopard?
 
maflynn

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eljanitor said:
It has to be Snow Leopard Server? It cant just be Snow Leopard?
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The license agreement only allows the virtualization of SL server, not the regular version. There's no other technical reason, other then what apple allowed.

The last time I looked at this, Vmware fusion looked at what version you had and if it wasn't the server flavor it would not work/install. Admittedly that was a while ago.
 
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Manic Harmonic

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maflynn said:
The license agreement only allows the virtualization of SL server, not the regular version. There's no other technical reason, other then what apple allowed.

The last time I looked at this, Vmware fusion looked at what version you had and if it wasn't the server flavor it would not work/install. Admittedly that was a while ago.
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VMware fusion will work with a standard snow leopard install, or any version of osx for that matter, if you user VMware unlocker. Unfortunately there is no equivalent of that with parallels.
 
eljanitor

eljanitor

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Parallels 9 & OSX Snow Leopard Server, no issues using Server edition runs Rosetta, Macromedia Studio8 Pro no problems thank you.
 
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MichaelLAX

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maflynn said:
The license agreement only allows the virtualization of SL server, not the regular version. There's no other technical reason, other then what apple allowed.

The last time I looked at this, Vmware fusion looked at what version you had and if it wasn't the server flavor it would not work/install. Admittedly that was a while ago.
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I am somewhat surprised that you chose to delete my response to this message, so I will repeat it with the purported "offending" information deleted:

While I give you great deference as a moderator of this forum for your technical expertise, you do a disservice by your incorrect statement about what the Snow Leopard EULA allows and doesn't allow.

It was a common Urban Myth back in 2011 that the Snow Leopard EULA prohibits its virtualization in Lion, and subseqently Mt. Lion and Mavericks on a Mac.

That urban myth has been debunked since then.

And with Apple's decision to discount the price of Snow Leopard Server by 95%, to the same $20 as Snow Leopard, the issue has been largely rendered moot.
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