Recently purchased Sim City 4, wont work on Snow Leopard because it requires 'Rosetta'.

Through research i've discovered Rosetta only works with 10.2.8. Having downloaded the installation of 10.2, i've tried partitioning an SD to install it on, but it wont work. What else can i do? I've searched long & hard to get this game on Mac OS

Chris01296 wrote:
Through research i've discovered Rosetta only works with 10.2.8. Having downloaded the installation of 10.2, i've tried partitioning an SD to install it on, but it wont work. What else can i do? I've searched long & hard to get this game on Mac OS
Ignorance is a sin on this forum punishable by the rants of those seriously ego-maniacal members.
While patience is a virtue, and to give is divine; let's take a deep breath and see if we can understand your problem and deal with a solution.
You want to run Sim City 4 on your modern day Intel Mac.  It was written for the PowerPC G4 era Macs running OS X 10.2.8 or better.  During the TIger-era, OS X 10.4, Apple switched from the PowerPC CPU platform to Intel and in a sweepingly brilliant move, licensed technology that they utilized under the name of Rosetta, to transparently run PowerPC software on Intel Macs.  This transition was successfully completed with few hiccups!
After approximately five years of allowing PPC apps to run in Rosetta (and due to Apple's license to continue to incorporate Rosetta into future versions of OS X expiring), with the introduction of Lion, OS X 10.7, it no longer incorporates Rosetta or the ability to natively run PowerPC applications. Intel Tiger and Leopard versions of OS X automatically install Rosetta, but in Snow Leopard it is an optional install.
Your best bet at this point is: insert the Snow Leopard Install DVD, go to Options and select and install Rosetta.
While I am not sure if Sim City 4 will run on Snow Leopard, I did find this caution in Wikipedia:
Intel Macintoshes
The game has major flaws when operating on computers by Apple using Intel processors. Aspyr released a beta of a patch to fix the problems in 2007, but the patch was never finalized and many bugs remain. Some have a serious impact on playability,[19] including frequent crashes if a city exceeds 95,000 population, flawed display of the water surface, frequent blurring or replacement of objects with random other objects, and an inability to significantly accelerate the vehicle in driving mode that prevents many gameplay features from being unlocked.
Good luck!

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