Trying to open rosetta but not an option in menu

Question

I'm trying to open black and white the game using rosetta as it is a power pc game and not intel.
I cant seem to find the option to use rosetta in the 'get info' menu. However i can find it for almost every other application.
What am i doing wrong? Is there a way around this?
Thanks
Moose

Answer 1

It is not possible to open rosetta. It is not an application as such but an operating environment to allow some older software to run that was not compiled for an Intel chip. Your game is most likely simply not going to play as most games will not run under rosetta. Games require dedicated resources and dedicated hardware and it it won't run without access to those resources. Black and White may have been written to take advantage of certain features built in to PPC chips, like AltiVec that simply do not exist on Intel chips and cannot be duplicated through a run time environment like rosetta. Most games need control of the video card, which is not going to be provided under rosetta.
If the game is that important you could always buy a used Power PC Mac on e-bay for almost nothing and use it to run the game but don't count on a game that old running under emulation, it just won't work.