Rosetta

[Greg Kmethy]

Rosetta is an emulated environment in Mac OS X that enables running applications compiled for PowerPC processors on newer Macs that use Intel processors.

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ARCHICAD 13 -

ARCHICAD 13 and over are only available for Intel-based Macs.

• See the complete ARCHICAD version history here
• Learn more about Rosetta from Wikipedia

ARCHICAD 10 to 12

ARCHICAD 10 to 12 had both PPC and Intel Mac compatible versions.

ARCHICAD 7.0 to 9

The Rosetta environment is discontinued in 10.7. ARCHICAD 7.0 to 9 had only PPC versions and therefore can only run using the Rosetta environment on Intel Macs.

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Mac OSX 10.7

The Rosetta environment is discontinued in Mac OSX 10.7. Read further details: MacOSXLion

Mac OSX 10.6

Rosetta is not included in the default Mac OSX 10.6 installation, but there is an option for installing it: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6531

Security update 2012-001 conflicts with old ARCHICADs: SnowLeopard

Mac OSX 10.5

Rosetta was included in Mac OSX 10.5.