Upgraded to OSX Lion, cannot play EHM 2005 anymore :(

[dissentowner]

So I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion last night and when I went to play my EHM 2005 it says I can't Power PC is no longer supported. Can I get around it?

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

So I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion last night and when I went to play my EHM 2005 it says I can't Power PC is no longer supported. Can I get around it?

Nope. No more Rosetta support in Lion.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

Nope. No more Rosetta support in Lion.

I guess I should have looked into that before upgrading, I would have just kept SL.

[fundmark19]

install a separate partition just for EHM?

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by fundmark19

install a separate partition just for EHM?

Yeah. Or find a prebuilt VM running Hackintosh OS X, and run that in Virtualbox or Fusion or Parallels.

For one game like that, I'd probably do Hackintosh on Virtualbox.

[DownhillGoat]

Any reason not to go back to SL?

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by kunkstyle

Any reason not to go back to SL?

This is what I am gonna do I think.

[dissentowner]

Well you can't go back to SL, Lion won't let it install.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Well you can't go back to SL, Lion won't let it install.

If you insert your SL DVD, and reboot your computer while holding down C (for cdrom, a bit of an anachronism), that will let you boot off the SL installer disc.

From there, ignore the installer, instead go to the menu bar and find the selection to launch the Disk Utility. Once in there, you'll want to reformat the drive with a new empty HFS+ journaled non-case sensitive partition. You can then exit disk util and proceed to the SL installer and do your reinstall.

Doing it this way will wipe the disk though - you'll need all your data backed up before doing any of this.

I wouldn't recommend doing it any other way though - Lion's HFS filesystem implementation could be a little different under the covers to support full disk encryption and snapshots, so I wouldn't want to risk disk corruption trying to install SL and having something horrible happen down the road.