Looking For Someone In Stl How Can Turn My Powermac G5 Into A New Intel Macpro Running Mac Osx11/1/2019
So it seems all the industry experts have been wrong for all these years–apparently the PowerPC G5 and the Intel Core Duo CPUs are pin-compatible; just yank the G5, drop in a Core Duo, and your G5 is now a Boot Camp-capable Intel-powered Mac. Apr 17, 2011 Hi, I've just got my G5 hack running. The only thing I haven't done yet is the front panel and was looking for your advice. If I just plug the power button socket on my mATX board into pin 13 it doesn't power up. It's like this with two front panels. I've read somewhere that the firewire needs to be hooked up for this all to work.
There was an emulation layer called to allow Intel Macs to run PowerPC applications that Apple provided from Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.6. Sadly, they removed it in 10.7 Lion and it no longer works. Given that you said your iMac is brand new, it presumably came with Lion preinstalled, and is unable to run anything older.
So, unfortunately, the answer is no. Your options are to upgrade your Adobe software to an Intel version, trade in your new Mac for a slightly older used Mac (from early 2011 or earlier) and put Snow Leopard on it, or continue to use your old hardware for your Adobe software. There is a solution: Use Snow Leopard. It comes with rosetta which is an emulation layer for PPC apps. If you use Lion there is also a solution: Use Snow Leopard: To achieve a dual system configuration use either,. Install Snow Leopard on a virtual machine.
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Install Rosetta and your applications. Run the applications on the virtual machine. It is not the most efficient or the most convenient way, but until is released it should do. An up to date setup is described.
Edit: LionRosetta is no more. Unfortunately, I have to have a Snow Leo partition. Pro Tools 9 only runs in SL and upgrading is not all that cheap, plus, it performs like a champ. Also, I use an app called DrumCore, which is amazing for solo recording musicians.
It contains tons of loops played by top session drummers and allows you to change the speed without degrading sound. You can cut up the loops, use midi data & a sound replacer if you want, etc etc. There is a newer version, but it is SOOOO expensive.
Version 2 is PowerPC only. Running a VM isn't really feasible for audio production. So, I have to do all my drum tracks is Snow Leo & PT 9, then if I want, reboot into newer OS and open session in PT 10. But I also still have a dual 2GHz G5 which runs lightning fast with the versions of apps that were designed for it.
In short, don't emulate and keep your PPC Mac or buy one used is the best option. I was experiencing the same problem and was shocked that I can't use PPC on the Mac I bought. So, after reading all of the sheepshaver and Snow Leopard forums, I finally came across 'winebottlercombo.bmg'. Look it up, download it and set it up. You might have to download xquartz.dmg as well, I had to. When you download and set up these two programs, they allow you to use a.exe (Windows execution file) and from there you can use what is known to the Mac as an 'unsupported' ppc file as a.exe Windows file through 'Winebottler'. Totally bypasses the 'unsupported PPC' on Mac OS X Lion.
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So just copy the image of the CD that you want using a Windows pc, make sure that you are copying the.exe file and open/set it up with the wine file on your Mac and it will work like a charm, without having to go through all of the set up procedures. After it is set up, whatever.exe and.lnk file you want to use, always 'Open With- wine.app' Note: you may have to look for the.lnk file via search in Finder. That is the file I needed to find to use the program I set up. So sorry if this is not so clear, I am also new to the Mac world and don't know all of the Mac lingo yet.
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