hey guys im geting mad at the window that says that lion does not support powerPC. is there a substitute for this at all? im trying to play older mac games and its unsupported..!!!😡😡😡
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MisterMe
macrumors G4
SheepShaver is your best bet. It runs the Classic MacOS from System 7.5.2 through MacOS 9.0.4. No version of MacOS X is supported. PearPC supports MacOS X 10.3, but this emulator is still very much in the development stage. Binaries are available for Windows [32-bit]. For the Mac, it must be compiled from source.
Then how have I gotten it to work? Works fine for me. Not perfect (Escape Velocity refuses to play properly, though Override works fine), but what is?
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
So you're saying its working fine then telling me that a game refuses to work. I think you're making my point 😉
Yeah, you can get it work for some things not all, and depending on how much work is required, its far easier to just pick up a cheap G4
Most definitely, it DOES run OS 9.0.4 (not 9.1 or 9.2.2, though). Of course, there's no hardware acceleration for games, etc., but it works, and it isn't hard to set up if you know what you are doing.
The point is that Snow Leopard has rosetta, so if you virtualise it you can run PPC apps in that virtual machine.