Can I run an old version of Rosetta Stone on my new MacBook?

I have an old version of Rosetta Stone. When I tried to install it to my new MacBook it said I can not install. When I called Rosetta Stone, they told me the same thing and want me to buy $100 upgrade. But someone told me that on Windows, she can run older programs by finding something called install.exe or setup.exe or some such thing and clicking on a "compatability tab". This will supposedly set up an "old school" environment for that programs so it thinks it is being run undre an older version.
Does anybody know any way to run an old program on a new MacBook. I'd like to avoid buying a $100 upgrade for Rosetta Stone.
TIA

Rosetta, as in the language teaching software? Did you ever run it on a Mac, however old?
If it did run on Macs and is truly ancient, it may be that the program is written for the previous processors that Apple used, the PPCs. Since the days of the Lion, OS X no longer carries the translator that allows you to run that old code (the translator is also called Rosetta, btw). The other possibility is that the main Rosetta program is Universal (carries both the PPC and the Intel code) but the installer itself is PPC only.

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