Help!

[bouncy81 0]

Hi everyone, i am new here, i hope someone can help me. I have a Macbook Air, running Lion, its only 3 months old. I recently purchased SimCity 4 Edition Deluxe and i have an external disc drive (the Apple one). When i put the disc in it says that PowerPC applications are no longer supported!! So i can't play the game??

I'd be really grateful if anyone can tell me how and if i can get it working.

Thank you! x

[DavidB_ 83]

No, you can't play the game straight off the disc. All MacBook Airs have Intel chips, and Lion will not run older PowerPC-only applications. See the links below for more information on how to make the game work (albeit not 100% perfect).

Link 1:

Link 2: SimCity 4 Universal Binary Beta (not supported but should just about work)

Link 3: Alternative -

[colco2121 55]

Buy the Windows version and download Wine for Mac OSX. (Im a Win7 user)

  Edited June 23, 2012 by colco2121  

[DON_T_BURNS 0]

You will not be able to install Sim City 4 on your Mac, The installer is a PowerPC application.

The only way you would have been able to install it would have been able to play on lion would have been to install it while you were still running Snow Leopard.

I use Lion, and I used the patch to run SC4. but unfortunately, you are out of luck (unless there is some sort of patched installer available)(which might be "illegal")

[Kootenay4 5]

maybe get your hands on the PC version and play through boot camp.

  Edited August 24, 2012 by Kootenay4  

[nukeu123 307]

well considering that the mac book air has the intel CPU, there for its possible to do a dual boot mac/windows, of course there may be some hardware issues however