Rosetta 2 and 32 bit applications

[Manzanito]

Does anyone with acces to the DTK confirm wether 32-bit intel apps can run under rosetta 2?

If so, does aperture run?

I don’t think sharing this info would break the nda. Thanks in andvance.

 

[leman]

No they can’t and 32-bit applications were deprecated last year. If it doesn’t run on Catalina it won’t run on Big Sur, no matter which hardware.

 

[Manzanito]

Thanks!

 

[Yebubbleman]

Does anyone with acces to the DTK confirm wether 32-bit intel apps can run under rosetta 2?

If so, does aperture run?

I don’t think sharing this info would break the nda. Thanks in andvance.

Considering Catalina dropping 32-bit support was likely to ease the transition to Apple Silicon and seeing as Intel CPUs perfectly capable of executing 32-bit code aren't for seemingly arbitrary reasons, I'm gonna go with no.

 

[Icelus]

Rosetta is a translation process that allows users to run apps that contain x86_64 instructions on Apple silicon.

About the Rosetta translation environment | Apple Developer Documentation

Learn how Rosetta translates executables, and understand what Rosetta can’t translate.

developer.apple.com

 

[the8thark]

The answer is keep your older Mac if you rely on anything 32 bit. It's 100% RIP on any modern Mac.

 

[dmccloud]

Does anyone with acces to the DTK confirm wether 32-bit intel apps can run under rosetta 2?

If so, does aperture run?

I don’t think sharing this info would break the nda. Thanks in andvance.

We don't need the DTK to confirm that 32-bit apps will not run under Big Sur regardless of the underlying processor. Mac OS switched exclusively to 64-bit with the release of Catalina last year, so running Aperture (or any other app that has not been recompiled for 64-bit) is a no-go.