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I have a 2002 TiBook[1]; it officially supports MacOS 9.2.2, but also every OS X release up to 10.5.8. I've been surprised to find that the retail copy of StarC

I have a 2002 TiBook[1]; it officially supports MacOS 9.2.2, but also every OS X release up to 10.5.8. I've been surprised to find that the retail copy of StarCraft that I bought in 2009 not only includes an OS X build, but also supports PowerPC! [1]: https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-02-tibook/ https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-02-tibook/ I'm not sure if it can be made to run m68k apps "natively", but on the other hand you can emulate just about any classic MacOS in a modern browser[2]. [2]: https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/

Fnoord 2y ago
Warcraft III (I don't know about I and II) was also for PPC (PowerPC / POWER). Why? Well, MacOS / Mac OS X was at some point PPC only. Apple did the conversion from m68k to PPC. Actually, for a while, it was quite tough to get these games working well on Mac Intel machines. Why? Well, the installer would only work on PPC. They didn't make it into a universal binary.
- bombcar 2y ago
  There's a similar problem with some older Windows games - the games are correct 32 bit applications and will run on modern Windows versions - but the installers are WIN16 and fail to load on Win64. Various tricks exist to get them installed and then migrated to run.