Software emulation system provided by Apple to enable programs compiled for PowerPC-based Macintoshes to run on Intel-based Macintosh computers under Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6

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Aperture and Rosetta problem

I've had to buy an older Intel Core Duo Macbook to replace a stolen one. I've installed Aperture 2.1 from an old disc. It won't open, I get a message saying something like: "You can't use this version ...
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Eudora crashes under Snow Leopard when checking mail

I have a weird Eudora problem that I don't even know quite where to start to solve. I have three Intel Macs, (a MacBook, a Mac Air and a MacBook Pro) all running the latest update of 10.6.8 (including ...
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Is there a replacement for Rosetta in Lion?

I have a few PowerPC Mac binaries I would like to run under MacOSX 10.7. I guess Rosetta is not going to be Open Source, isn't it? Any petition about this? I would start one or contact someone at ...
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(Lion installed) Can I use Boot Camp to install Snow Leopard? Is it legal?

I have suddenly come into a dire need to run PowerPC apps. My understand is that Lion will never support 32-but PPC code. It seems like the only solution, therefore, is to install Snow Leopard. My ...
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Finding Rosetta / PPC applications on disk

I know how to determine if a program is an Intel or PPC application (with Cmd-I or in the Activity Monitor). But how can I find all PPC applications that still lurk on my disk? Before upgrading to ...
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Lion: Switching an Application's launch preference off of Rosetta (PPC)

I have a case where a machine was upgraded to Lion. Prior to Lion the user was running Photoshop CS4 (a Universal Binary) under Rosetta which required hitting a checkbox in the application's "Get ...
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How can I install/run apps that use Rosetta on Lion?

Is there a workaround to install/use apps that are using Rosetta on Lion? I'm still using Zend 5.5 and I don't want to switch to a new IDE right now.