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Some mavericks help.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 5:15 pm
by Mota-Lev
Ok so i've gotten a new laptop recently and I am pissed cause none of my stupid games work because they are PPC.. so I'm asking what are some methods I can get them to run aside from chucking this new computer off my balcony and getting an old one.


Also general why has apple gone to shit thread? their commercials suck their products suck. What is happening.. everything is changing and not for the better its getting worse.

Re: Some mavericks help.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:12 pm
by Modzy
List the games you kangaroo.

Re: Some mavericks help.

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:24 am
by Mota-Lev
You're a kangaroo.

Rise of Nations, Homeworld II, Starcraft, Ghost recon, Warcraft III, oni, XIII and a few other games I'm forgetting.

Re: Some mavericks help.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:51 am
by 002
It looks like Apple still sells Snow Leopard, probably because they want 10.5 and 10.4 users to update to 10.9. Snow Leopard comes with Rosetta in the installation DVD, which enables the old PPC games to run, though as nil wrote below, this isn't advisable. A few people on HaloMD dual-boot Snow Leopard (10.6) or run it in a virtual machine. It's probably less costly than buying an old computer, though. You may want to try to find newer versions of the software before trying this route, though.

Re: Some mavericks help.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:50 pm
by Modzy
Most of these have PC versions that you can wineskin.

Re: Some mavericks help.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 5:50 pm
by nil
As far as I know Warcraft III has a UB patch, however hard that may be to obtain (installer might be PPC).

P.S. I don't advise running 10.6 natively on a new Mac.

P.P.S. Software lives off of updates. The reason none of the old games work is either because none of them received updates from developers for many years, or you had not updated them (e.g, warcraft III).

Re: Some mavericks help.

Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 9:38 am
by Dead Site
wc3 has a ub patch but only for singleplayer. just uninstall it