Mac OS X Lion and the end of Rosetta

[Legacy_Jessica Sideways]

               When Apple released Mac OS X Lion earlier this week, many users began to discover one major problem - their PowerPC apps that had no Universal Binary (like Neverwinter Nights) no longer worked.

Is there any way at all to convince the powers that be to release a UB? :innocent:
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_-papercut-]

               So there is no way you can play NWN 1 on Mac OS X Lion?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_SarahKH]

               WINE aka WINE Is Not An Emulator

It'll let OS X play the Windows version of the game... I'm assuming your discs have both versions on them.

The gist of which is:

Install Xcode.
Install XQuartz
Install MacPorts
Open Terminal
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install wine-devel

Then mount the discs and poke around /Volumes/ <whatever> for the setup.exe  you'll end up with a command akin to

wine /Volvumes/DVD-ROM/setup.exe

Once installed you can use wine .wine/drive_c/NWN/<something>.exe to test it.   Launchers can be made in AppleScript.

Alternativley take a look at Codeweaver's who ship a paid-for and better integrated version of what the above will lash together.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Oclair Monanari]

               Guys on Lion Parallels runs XP and NWN diamond really really good, go ahead and look around for a torrent for windows nwn diamond with 1.69 (as bioware turned off the master server its a free game now....  Which is unbelievable and completely irresponsible of them...)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Oclair Monanari]

               Parallels: http://www.parallels...oducts/desktop/

Amazing software on OSX basically before I upgraded to Lion I tested it against Mac NWN Running on 10.6.8 on Rosetta and basically emulating Windows XP (no need to use vista or win7 for nwn) Nwn for Windows is just as good.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Lakhena]

               I used Crossover Games from Codeweavers to install a nwn diamond edition ($10 now for the 1.69 version from Gog.com).  It was fairly painless to do -- the only trick is to find the nwn directories, which will be under Library > Application Support > Crossover Games > Bottles > setup_nwn_diamond.exe > drive_c > Program Files > Gog.com.  Also, the intro movies won't work, so you need to disable that in your nwn.ini file.  Otherwise, it seems to be running rather smoothly for me.

I'm not that technically inclined, so this was a great solution for me. >.>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Itinerant]

               How do you disable your nwn.ini file?