How to open powerPC apps in Mountain lion?

I just updated to Mountain Lion. Before, I had a couple of games I could play without any problems. Now that I have updated my OS I get an error: "the progam can't be opened, because the PowerPC-applications aren't being supported any longer"

msansaphone wrote:
I just updated to Mountain Lion.
I tried to partition my external drive, but I can't install snow leopard onto it.
I miss my old mbp.
When you said "just updated" people assumed you UPGRADED to 10.8 from 10.6 and now your PPC apps no longer work.
What it appears now is you purchased a new machine with 10.8 or updated from a factory 10.7 because you said "I miss my old mbp"
I tried to partition my external drive, but I can't install snow leopard onto it.
The machine your booting the 10.6 install disk/usb with has to have had Snow Leopard 10.6 on it at one time or is capable of booting from the 10.6 installer.
There are hardware drivers so OS X can work on different Mac hardware, for newer machines there is no hardware drivers for Snow Leopard and/or the firmware will block booting from the installer/disk.
I tried to partition my external drive, but I can't install snow leopard onto it.
All OS X boot drives  have to be formatted Partition, X amount of Partitions (usually 1) click the box and Option: GUID and then OS X extended journaled on the partition OS X is being installed into.
The other partitions can be formatted differently, but OS X can only be installed into OS X Extended J formatted partitions and only on a GUID formatted drive.
Formatting a drive will remove all data on it, formatting a partition will remove all data just on it and not other partitions, backup all the data regardless in case of error.
Once you have formatted  you can quit Disk Utility and then there will be a selection of boot volumes OS X can be installed into.
You do all this while c or option/alt key held at boot time to boot off the 10.6 installer disk or bootable 10.6 USB key.
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
You are doing this to direct boot the machine (if it's capable of 10.6) into Snow Leopard, you do this by holding the option/alt key down at boot time for Startup Manager.
If your machine came with 10.7 or 10.8, it can't boot off the 10.6 install disks.
Nor can you boot the gray machine disks on another model of Mac as it has specific hardware drivers for that model only.
I have a UT here about installing Snow Leopard onto a partition on a Mac that was upgraded to 10.7 or 10.8 from 10.6.
Snow Leopard partition on 10.7+ Mac
There is a option to running OS X 10.6 Server on a virtual machine software called Parallels here, the performance isn't going to be as good as a direct boot,  but acceptable on just about everything but a intense 3D games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zjXaVtfkX0
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

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