How to run PowerPC application under Mountain Lion?

I ahve just upgraded my ancient laptop running Leopard to a newer model running Mountain Lion.
I use a legacy application (Filemaker v5.5) for work that cannot be upgraded in the near future for my work.
This is a PowerPC application that is no longer supported. Is there an emulator or utility that will allow me to run this (and other) PowerPC applications?
Is there a version of Rosetta or something similar I can get?
The alternative is to create a Windows partition (shudder) and run it there.

No Mac will run an OS or OS point version earlier than what it originally shipped with. You can see which iMacs shipped with Snow, from this link. That said, it's not entirely clear that even the mid-2011, if it shipped with Lion, will still be able to run Snow.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1159
baltwo said he got it running on a mid-2011 refurb, but on a separate partition from a clone.

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Hi everyone, apologies if my questions have been asked before, but I was unable to find an answer.
My problem is that I just upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard and discovered that one of my programs doesn't work because it is a PowerPC application. I only need temporary access to the program in order to export my data to a new version of the same program.
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Regards.

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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"
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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

How to open silverlight download under mountain lion

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Regards.

Is there any possible way to run PPC applications on Mountain Lion?

THrough any kind of emulation or something?

ds store wrote:
There is a hack over at MacRumors.com with MichealLAX that can get Snow Leopard/Server to run in a virtual machine.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
If you need more performance for like games and such
As you are an avid proponent and continuous user of Snow Leopard, I thank you, on behalf of all those current and future users of versions of OS X beyond Snow Leopard for the knowledge that these users have an additional tool in their toolbox: that is installing Snow Leopard into Parallels so as to be able to continue to access Rosetta for running their PowerPC apps.
As you point out, if their hardware is old enough, an additional solution is the "dual-boot" method of installing SL into a new partition on their hard drive or an external hard drive.
However for those who have more modern Mac models, and have an absolute need to run their PowerPC software (that is, because no updated version of the software is available, no alternative software exists that can open their data files and/or they have financial considerations that may updates prohibititive at this time), using Snow Leopard in virtualization is the only method available to them on their new Mac.
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Now that Apple has dropped the price on Snow Leopard Server by 95%, I always recommend purchasing SLS in the first instance.

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Obviously you are unaware of the advice I give on this forum: You're preaching to the choir!
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A lot of people want frontrow back, which has been removed since LION.
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I just found a similar solution and was coming here to find more info.
To get Front Row to work under LION (not Mountain Lion), the following files were needed (Note: I got this info from elsewhere months ago, but I don't remember where.)
/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BackRow.framework
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.RemoteUI.plist
/Applications/Front Row.app
When I updated to Mountain Lion today, all those files were still in place, but the app no longer worked.
BUT... Similarly to what you found, I noticed that if I manually launched the Front Row app that's in
/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app
It launched the app! - NOT the one that was in my applications folder, but the one in the above directory. Once that was launched, I clicked "ESC" and was in.
- Pretty much the same solution as above, but done manually without the applescript.
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Any idea how to enable that?

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After several days of going back and forth with Rosetta Stone support, and their useless advice, I finally figured out how to get Rosetta Stone TOTALe 4 to work under OS 10.8 Mountain Lion. Below are the instructions; follow them attentively, and you should get Rosetta Stone TOTALe 4 working under Mountain Lion.
Getting Rosetta Stone 4 to work under OS 10.8 Mountain Lion
1. Download the Rosetta Stone package from http://www.rosettastone.com/v4upgrade
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3. Drag the "Rosetta Stone TOTALe" application to Trash. This is your existing installation of Rosetta Stone TOTALe that doesn't work under Mountain Lion.
4. In the Finder, go to /Library/Application Support/Rosetta Stone/TOTALe and locate the file "tracking.db3" (without quotes).
5. Select this file and hit the "Return" key on the keyboard.
6. Rename this file to "tracking-backup.db3" (without quotes).
7. Click on Apple, click on System Preferences and go to Security and Privacy > General; under "Allow applications downloaded from:" select "Anywhere".
8. Go to the Downloads folder and find the file "Rosetta_Stone_TOTALe.dmg" (without quotes) that was downloaded in Step 1.
9. Double-click on this file. Then in the window that opens, double-click on the "Rosetta Stone TOTALe.mpkg" file (without quotes).
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12. Quit the Rosetta Stone TOTALe application.
13 In the Spotlight or Finder, search for "rosetta stone kind:app" without quotes.
14. Launch the newly installed Rosetta Stone TOTALe application.
15. The application will prompt you to download an update.
16. Agree to downloading the update and wait until the download is finished.
17. The application will tell you that the update was downloaded successfully and that once you hit "OK" it will launch the updater. However, it does not launch the updater. Instead, you should open the Finder, and under DEVICES locate the mounted updater package.
18. Click on the mounted updater package and run the updater application.
19. Once the updater application finishes, quit it.
20. In the Spotlight or Finder, search for "rosetta stone kind:app" without quotes.
21. Launch the newly updated Rosetta Stone TOTALe applicatoin.
22. You will be prompted for the activation key. Enter the activation key that came with your Rosetta Stone Software.
23. Quit the Rosetta Stone TOTALe application.
24. In the Finder, go to /Library/Application Support/Rosetta Stone/TOTALe and locate the file "tracking.db3" (without quotes).
25. Drag the "tracking.db3" file to Trash.
26. In the same location (/Library/Application Support/Rosetta Stone/TOTALe), find the "tracking-backup.db3" file, select it, and press "Return".
27. Rename the "tracking-backup.db3" file to "tracking.db3".
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My Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. how to why install OS X Mountain Lion ?

my Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. how to why install OS X Mountain Lion ?

How?
Upgrading to Mountain Lion - http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade
Mac OS X: System requirements for Mountain Lion (10.8) - http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
Lion and Mountain Lion application compatibility - http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
Kappy 08/2012 post on upgrading to Snow Leopard, then Lion or Mountain Lion - https://discussions.apple.com/message/19401628 - including how to get Snow Leopard and Lion since Apple removed them from the online store.
MacBook upgrade possibilities - https://discussions.apple.com/message/19577869 - "The Early 2006 model 1,1 Core Duo can only run a maximum of 10.6 Snow Leopard. The models Late 2006 Core 2 Duos 2,1 through Early 2008 4,1 can only run a maximum of 10.7 Lion. The Late 2008 model 5,1 Aluminum Unibody through the Mid 2010 White Unibody model 7,1 can run 10.8 Mountain Lion."
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