PowerPC Games on Older Macs

[Messerschmitt101]

Hello All,

I know that at some point, OS X stopped supporting games like Civilization III and IV, as well as other older games.

I have a mid 2010 MacBook Pro 13 with a Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 GHz, 4GB of RAM, and a 250GB HDD (Ancient I know).
But will this still support Civ III? Or was this after support was dropped?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

 

[cruisin]

You need Snow Leopard for PowerPC support. Your MacBook came with Snow Leopard originally so it should work.

The simplest way is to partition a bit of space (say 10 GB for Snow Leopard to be safe plus however much the game needs) and put Snow Leopard onto it. Then rebooting and switching over to the Snow Leopard partition whenever you need it.

You can also try to use VirtualBox to run Snow Leopard directly, but your MacBook doesn't seem powerful enough to run everything needed (current Mac plus virtual Snow Leopard plus Civ III). But VirtualBox is free so you can try it first before resorting to partitioning.

See http://www.chriswrites.com/how-to-run-powerpc-apps-on-mac-os-x-lion/
The guide is for Lion but the concept is the same even if you don't use Lion.