Just wanted to share something that I didn't know, and wasn't expecting to work. And maybe somebody else can explain why this works, and how which other OS X's this set up might continue to work with.
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so I have an old classic game - Command & Conquer Generals. It was on the Mac App Store since around 2015. I never purchased it but understood that its been removed now? I was interested in buying it just recently and thats when they decided to take down from the store! but anyway I heard it was crashing.
So I went and bought the original Mac release version of the game (2003) which was for Power PC Macs.
I bought Snow Leopard and the game runs great with SL on my 2009 27 iMac, and my 2008 Black MacBook.
I expected I had to run the game in Snow Leopard for Rosetta. However, Snow Leopard was too old for me (without launchpad and spaces etc) so I installed a Lion partition on these Macs and to my surprise, the game is running when i'm booted in Lion.
I thought OS X Lion didn't have Rosetta to make Power PC Apps work. How does Lion work with Rosetta on a different partition / OS X install?
can this set up work with Mountain Lion or Mavericks? to be clear, my set up is just 2 partitions: OS X 10.6 and OS X 10.7. When booted in 10.7, I located the app/game in the folder on the 10.6 partition and just run the app and it plays fine in 10.7.
I tested this with High Sierra and it doesn't work so i'm sure it wont work with Sierra / El Capitan / Yosemite.
Skip the following in bold if you want to cut to the question
so I have an old classic game - Command & Conquer Generals. It was on the Mac App Store since around 2015. I never purchased it but understood that its been removed now? I was interested in buying it just recently and thats when they decided to take down from the store! but anyway I heard it was crashing.
So I went and bought the original Mac release version of the game (2003) which was for Power PC Macs.
I bought Snow Leopard and the game runs great with SL on my 2009 27 iMac, and my 2008 Black MacBook.
I expected I had to run the game in Snow Leopard for Rosetta. However, Snow Leopard was too old for me (without launchpad and spaces etc) so I installed a Lion partition on these Macs and to my surprise, the game is running when i'm booted in Lion.
I thought OS X Lion didn't have Rosetta to make Power PC Apps work. How does Lion work with Rosetta on a different partition / OS X install?
can this set up work with Mountain Lion or Mavericks? to be clear, my set up is just 2 partitions: OS X 10.6 and OS X 10.7. When booted in 10.7, I located the app/game in the folder on the 10.6 partition and just run the app and it plays fine in 10.7.
I tested this with High Sierra and it doesn't work so i'm sure it wont work with Sierra / El Capitan / Yosemite.
