First post, by Nilfisken
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When OS X Lion came a quite a while back now, I immediately rushed to the app store to download and do a clean install of this fantastic feline fruit child.
Had I known, however, the perils this whiskered wildcat would bring me, I'd have thought twice - if not thrice - before throwing myself into the reckless endeavor.
For - alas - because of its stubborn belief in old-fashioned (binary) values and ideas, Rosetta was thrown out - abandoned by the lion's flock - left for the hyenas (and late-movers) to feed on.
Anyway: Without Rosetta, I had to say goodbye to some of my beloved older Mac games, most prominently Command and Conquer Generals. I've been without for quite some time - but now I simply miss it too much 😀
However I know for sure that Generals (after the last update) is a Universal Binary, which means it should be able to run on Intel Macs.
Unfortunately the CnC Generals installer isn't a Universal Binary, which means - that although it should be able to run in the end, I can't be allowed to install it.
Therefore I'd love to know if there's any way to manually put the different game files in the right places in Lion, and if anyone knows where all these "right places" might be?
I have an installed version backed up on an old Time Machine and on my old G5 PowerMac. So would there be any way to grab the files from there and put them in place on my Lion?
(And no, I'm not going to make a Snow Leopard Partition just to run Generals ) 😀
Edit: I realize that this doesn't actually concern emulating games on mac - but I don't know where else to turn.