Running PowerPC Apps on an Intel macbook.

[trevstrotz1]

Hi, i do not know if this would be the right place to post this, but I will try anyway. Would I need to download something to run PowerPC Apps on an Intel Macbook, or would it just run them anyway? If so, what would I need to download?

Thanks!:)

[Blodwyn]

No need to download anything, just run them. Rosetta will automatically take care of things without any involvement

[trevstrotz1]

What is Rosetta? Is it built into all of the new macbook's?:confused::)

[cwtnospam]

It's built into all Intel Macs.

[Mikey-San]

Rosetta is an instruction translation layer that is part of Mac OS X. It translates instructions meant for PowerPC machines into something Intel machines can understand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
http://www.apple.com/rosetta/

[AHunter3]

Yep, just like PowerPC Macs can run old 68K code in emulation without downloading anything in particular to do it. Built into the (MacOS 9, 8, 7) OS.

I can still run 68K apps under Classic on my G4 PowerBook running 10.4.11

(admittedly not something I do very often)

[trevstrotz1]

o.k., thanks guys!:)