Playing old games on new Mac

Hello,
I have a macbook pro and i want to play this old powerPC mac game called Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Seeing as how my computer is intel based, i dont have classic environment. I put the game CD into my computer and it reads, but doesnt allow me to play the game. when i click the icon to start the game, it gives an error message:
"you cannot open the application becase it is not suported on this system."
i know there has to be a way for me to get this game going. any ideas?

Hi, Atturo -
Apple does not support Classic or OS 9 on any Intel-based machine.
However, there are some 3rd-party emulators available, each of which allows the use of certain pre-OSX OS's on an Ontel Mac. This article discusses some of them -
http://www.atpm.com/12.09/classic.shtml
The one I've seen mentioned the most is SheepShaver. There's more info about it here -
SheepShaver
Whether any of them will work sufficiently well for your purposes is a different issue. Many games do not work well, or at all, in an emulatorPrograms which require direct access to the machine;s hardware, such as many games do, usually will not run well, or at all, in an emulator or equivalent environment.
It may be simpler for you to look around for an older used machine, like an iMac of appropriate vintage, for this purpose - such machines can be got for not much money.

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