OS X Lion Kills Rosetta PowerPC Support, Here’s What To Do About It

Alissa Mower Clough

This is a sentimental favorite, now in its last iteration: If Monks Had Macs.

It holds several ebooks, a journal program, and the tale of the White Rose in Germany.
Former versions had a fantasy tavern, a pinball machine, and a classic college-town jukebox.

not_happy_REALLY

Well.. I am screwed. Unfortunately I was unaware of the issues. I have Dreamweaver 8 and was not planning on upgrading, it suits my needs just fine. I built a couple of basic websites for some small non profits, and now, well, I already said it... I'm screwed. I should never have upgraded, it will now cause me some major headaches that I wasn't anticipating... and of course I now have to spend more money.... and who can really afford to that these days.  Oh, and I forgot, I have an old version of Adobe, too, CS2... again I don't really need to upgrade those programs, but I used them all the time.  To put it simply again... this really sucks.

ajfp

Like you, I've used MAC a long time (since 1996) -- until now, every upgrade since then has been backwards engineered to allow old apps to be used (even CLARISWORKS was convertible to APPLEWORKS, which converted the old files) -- now items such as AppleWorks are unusable as they have now way to be converted (Nothing in the iWork package will translate them) -- for once, Apple has left it's loyal customers in a lurch -- this is the first time that I have had to run multiple hardware to maintain older files (and that's not perfect, as I have to copy old text to new apps.  In many cases, Apple suggests storing old files as PDF, not a satisfactory remedy in most cases.  I recently lost my MacAir to theft -- I have 2 backup computers (MacBook Pro & MacMini -- I had to pay top dollar to find a replacement that didn't need Lion (I was told that the new models will not accept a downgrade to Snow Leopard

russn23

I am stuck on Snow Leopard (it's not so horrible) but the one app I can't do without in Lion is Adobe GoLive CS2 (Version 8).  Since Adobe killed GoLive and replaced it with Dreamweaver (which I really don't like), I have no choice but to stick with SL (10.6.8).  So if anyone knows of a program that works similar to the way GoLive does, let me know! Thanks in advance!

John Cohen

Max Payne! Nooo!

Jason Baker

As a middle school teacher in Maine using many different educational software that is undoubtedly old (exam viewers, lesson planning software, simulation CDs from publishers), I have found this to be a problem.  I don't see why it is such a problem to keep using Rosetta on an operating system, maybe it interferes with other functions, but it is short sited for the main/original supporters of the Mac (education).  Our state has worked with apple to supply laptops to all 7th and 8th grade students, and has expanded that out to 6th and 9th grade and sometimes high school grades in many districts.  The current year seems to be supported on student laptops but the new one I bought this year, with lion is not.  Can there be a download that solves this problem?

 

GokhanCukurova

I have your solution right here guys! Connect your drive, 
Follow these steps:Go to Disk UtilityClick on the External Hard Drive name, 
click on Patition
Under Patition Layout you will see 'current' Click on that and choose 
1 Partition
Look at the bottom of the white box, you will see Options. Click on it, 
choose GUID
THEN RENAME YOUR DRIVE where it says Untitled1 
make sure Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is selected.
Click Apply, you are good to go!

Bob Cross

Amateur Radio application for signing logs files offered by the Arrl "American Radio Relay League". Tqsl.app, tqslcert.app. Can't sign your logs, then you can't upload them.

Vern Gall

I love playing Rise of Nations so I guess my MacPro DP 3.0GHz will not see Lion.  They never did support 64-bit EFI on this one (however Windows 7 seems to work just fine in 64-bit mode.

Kurtis Millette

Homeworld 2 for mac D: It no longer works and i'm sad.

Martin Cash

Warcraft 3!!

Guest

I just got a macbook pro with OS X Lion and I just bought rosetta stone.  Are there no additional downloads I can get to run rosetta stone on the mac?  Sounds like not.

Jackson Sumrall

i saved up for warcraft 3 and now it won't work, and to thank just 2 months ago i was begging my parents for a mac, if you ask me they are just losing business. ):<

Susan Jensen

I'm am definitely looking back and wishing I had never upgraded to Lion.  Nothing but problems with my computer, especially with the iCloud , which insinuates itself into everything, and if you try to get out of it, it likes to take things away from you, like your calendar and address book.  Also I'm sending out double emails now!    Lost Rosetta Stone-- could they have given a warning of some sort?   

thanks for the article, though

Lazza

You could try Inkscape, it's not so bad as a vector editor and it's open source. :)

Leif Halvorsen

I'm sad about Homeworld 2 as well.

Luke Williams

I can no longer run Photoshop CS4, Sim City 3000 or Virtual Boy Advance which I used to emulate Pokémon games for when I was bored in lectures. Looks like I'm gonna have to start actually studying economics now :(

Lazza

Gimp is a universal binary. Maybe you can give it a try. :)
http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website...

Kerem Parlakgumus

so i am using 10.7.2, in this way, do the programs work (i mean the programs which were working with rosetta)?

Kerem Parlakgumus

ups, i think iam getting, sleepy, but i did not understand, how will it help me, what does it provide me if i fallow your steps? will it help to run the application which are not running on mac os x 10.7.2