In my experience, even though two translation steps are involved: Parallels to run Snow Leopard and Rosetta to run, for example, Freehand modern Macs are so fast that these apps run faster today than they did on legacy PowerPC Macs.Think your questions and complaints are more for Microsoft. So these people must find a way to run Snow Leopard on a modern Mac to continue to access and, if necessary, modify their graphics. My work is to help those locked into using some PowerPC apps on modern Macs and not experimenting with more modern OS’es on a PowerPC Mac.įor example, some people have a library full of graphics that were created on Macromedia Freehand MX.Īdobe acquired the rights to Freehand and promptly proceeded to retire its development without any ability to convert Freehand graphics to other programs. (See: The Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Thread) Please provide a link: In all of my research over the years, I have never come across a 2012 Mac Mini running Snow Leopard. There is a Wiki page listed that can give you updated information.īy the way, there have been other hacks so that Snow Leopard can run on other machines such as my 2012 Mac Mini i7 but you had to run the system differently as I recall from a CD or DVD as it relied on a patch. So the first two links on that page for download refer to the 10A96 build but as stated previously, some things might not work. Even during late development, the xnu mach kernel continued to be a Universal Binary. This and subsequent builds are archived on this page, despite the focus increasingly being directed at Intel Macs. So far, no one has been able to successfully reach WindowServer or SystemUIServer on a PowerPC Mac with this DP. Community-based efforts to recompile these components for PowerPC use are ongoing.īuild 10A222, released early 2009, manages to boot partially on a PowerPC Mac, but Finder and most prefPanes are Intel only. On Build 10A190, certain components needed for stability and overall functionality were compiled only for Intel architectures. The Build 10A190 Developer Preview of Snow Leopard (Darwin 10.0.0d2), released October 2008, was also found to boot and launch successfully on PowerPC Macs, but a sizeable portion of PowerPC code had been removed by Apple. That first DP, Build 10A96, Darwin 10.0.0d1, is generally the most PowerPC-friendly, out-of-the-box, of the known Snow Leopard Universal Binary DPs. Despite this, Apple clarified soon after releasing its first DP at WWDC 2008 that PowerPC Macs would not be supported once Snow Leopard went on sale. With minor modifications, these DPs install and run on later G4 and G5 PowerPC Macs. This is from the page I linked earlier which is discussing PowerPC issues only:Ī Clouded Leopard is a nickname for the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Developer Previews (DPs), released between June 2008 and late 2008, which were found to be Universal Binaries.

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