Games on Intel processers

somone told me that i cant play my games like
Unreal Tournament 2k4
Warcraft III
Halo
n others...
non universal or somthin...?
is this true?
(can i not play games on my intel comp, that i would on my old G4?)

ill be back, and expect an answer
LOL!
By the way. Just wait until URT 2007 comes out in a Universal binary! Then you will be set!
I have four games that I want to save from my G4 and I'm also interested how "fast" it will be on Rosetta.

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Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions....
I'm afraid with the system requirements for the game being.....
System Requirements
Minimum (Macintosh)
Mac OS 8.6/Mac OS 10.1.3
PowerPC G3 333 MHz
128 MB RAM (with virtual memory set to at least 256MB)
Hardware accelerated 3D Graphics Card with 8MB VRAM
500MB free hard disk space
Mouse and keyboard
Recommended (Macintosh)
Mac OS 9.2.2/Mac OS 10.2 or later
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256MB RAM
Hardware accelerated 3D Graphics Card with 32MB VRAM
1GB free hard disk space
that it can't run on an Intel Mac. In fact, the Mac OS 9.2 is Classic... that goes back a bit. But if you can find a friend who's running a powerPC Mac with Tiger running Classic, you could run the game that way. In fact, if the game is that important to you, you might be able to pick up an older iBookG4 with at least (Tiger) 10.4.x with Classic. You'd need the support disks that came with the iBook. There is no way it will run on the MacBook... sorry. The 8.6 system goes back to about 1998. It looks like the minimum requirements say 10.2 would work also, that was Jaguar. That would work also without having to run Classic.
Carolyn
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