Nikon RAW editing software no longer works, why?

Hi all
Nikon NX2 is one of my central tools on my Mac since as a professional photographer I really need it to handle RAW images. It is by far superior to all and any other products for handling RAW (NEF/DNG) files.
Nikon seem to have stopped support for Lion and Mountain Lion, which has left me in a quandry. It means that I now run most of my work and software from an external Firewire drive with 10.8.3 installed, while retaining my 10.6.8 on the internal drive to run NX.
I have asked Nikon and have had no satisfactory response.
So my question really is if anyone here has a workaround or solution to this dilemma.
Thanks

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