Powertone or similar for OSX

Hello! The company I work for uses powertones for a large line of print products. (A "powertone" produces a duotone image that is very similar to a 4C image.) We are replacing all computers and upgrading the Operating Systems, so we will not have a computer that can run OS 9, nor Powertone software.
I have the lucky task of finding an up-to-date alternative to Powertone! After an exhaustive search I've come up with nothing substantial.
#1) Does anyone know of software that can produce the same results as powertone?
#2) If there isn't software out there to do this, does anyone have a method for creating duotones that produce colors similar to 4C? We're pretty p'shop savvy over here, so complicated instructions should be fine.
#3) (opt.) Why does Adobe offer the plug-in with no warning about it's incompatibility with OSX? Just curious.
http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/photoshop/powertone.html
You are awesome if you can answer me those questions 3. Or possibly just give me some insight or help if you have it. Thanks!!
PS -- I did read the thread "what ever happened to..." already.

Hi Molly,
I have no idea about the use of or replacement for Powertone. However there is a solution. It is tangentially related to question #3. The plugin SDK for Windows hasn't changed so Powertone and lots of Windows plugins are still viable options even though they would have had to be rewritten for Macs. It is the price we pay for OS X complicated by the switch to Intel hardware.
My suggestion is this. Consider having one workstation set up with VMWare's Fusion, Windows XP Pro and a single license of Windows Photoshop. Use that workstation for the Powertone conversions. I'm suggesting VMWare rather than Parallels because it is the better for serious power use as it allows you to assign multiple cores to the Guest OS as well as RAM allotment so you could load up a Mac Pro with 12GB RAM and assign 4 GB to your Windows partition and have plenty left to run everything else.
I have a Windows license of Photoshop running this way to use plugins which have not been rewritten for Mac as well as a number of other graphics and 3D programs which don't exist on the Mac side. I'll boot up Windows in the morning and just let it run all day on it's own 'Space' (virtual Desktop) and with the flick of a wrist am in Windows. It is very stable and the new release, now in beta, provides complete multi monitor support as well as a number of other real advances. It is a free upgrade for purchasers of the current shipping verson.

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