Rosetta: Will it run?

[mathwhiz90601]

I'm planning on getting a new iMac in a few weeks to replace my 7-year-old iMac. Most of my programs (read: games) will probably run on SheepShaver or Rosetta.

My question: Will a game that says it will run on 10.0.4 be able to run in Rosetta?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

It should run, if the following are true:

• It uses ZERO kernel extensions
• It is PowerPC-only
• It doesn't depend on anything else, like G5-only code, that Rosetta doesn't support

 

[mathwhiz90601]

It should run, if the following are true:

• It uses ZERO kernel extensions

• 
  
  Dunno what those are.
  
  

  [*]It is PowerPC-only

  
  Definitely. It was made 5 years before Apple started using intel chips.
  
  

  [*]It doesn't depend on anything else, like G5-only code, that Rosetta doesn't support

G5's hadn't been made yet. It was made for G3's at 500 Mhz.

 

[MisterMe]

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My question: Will a game that says it will run on 10.0.4 be able to run in Rosetta?

Rosetta is the emulation layer in Intel-based Macs to allow PPC code to run. It has no bearing on whether MacOS X 10.0.4-compatible code will run on your machine. Remember that Apple had MacOS X 10.0.4 running on Intel computers in the lab. The question is whether or not your game will run on MacOS X 10.4. Some 10.0.4 code will not run. If it will, then it will run on your computer.