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Hello,
Currently I have a late 2006 MacBook running Snow Leopard. However, I am thinking of upgrading it to Lion and/or buying a new Mac Mini. There's a problem, though. One of my hobbies is LEGO Robotics, and I've consistently had trouble getting the older programming software (ROBOLAB) to run on my computers. Back when I ran only Windows, the problem was that drivers for the USB Infrared tower used to download programs to the robot only existed for 32bit editions of Windows. On mac, the problem is that this particular system was made obsolete at roughly the same time Macs switched to Intel, so it was never ported to Intel, and remains a PowerPC Application. I'm looking for a way to run ROBOLAB on a Lion or Mountain Lion-based computer. Assuming there's no way to natively run PowerPC applications on 10.7/.8, can I install Snow Leopard on a Boot Camp partition? Can I use WMWare or Parallels to run SL in a virtual environment? Or am I stuck running Snow Leopard on my MacBook? Obviously I could install Windows (likely XP) in a Boot Camp partition, but I'd rather keep everything inside OSX where possible.
Any help is very much appreciated.
dhmmjoph
Currently I have a late 2006 MacBook running Snow Leopard. However, I am thinking of upgrading it to Lion and/or buying a new Mac Mini. There's a problem, though. One of my hobbies is LEGO Robotics, and I've consistently had trouble getting the older programming software (ROBOLAB) to run on my computers. Back when I ran only Windows, the problem was that drivers for the USB Infrared tower used to download programs to the robot only existed for 32bit editions of Windows. On mac, the problem is that this particular system was made obsolete at roughly the same time Macs switched to Intel, so it was never ported to Intel, and remains a PowerPC Application. I'm looking for a way to run ROBOLAB on a Lion or Mountain Lion-based computer. Assuming there's no way to natively run PowerPC applications on 10.7/.8, can I install Snow Leopard on a Boot Camp partition? Can I use WMWare or Parallels to run SL in a virtual environment? Or am I stuck running Snow Leopard on my MacBook? Obviously I could install Windows (likely XP) in a Boot Camp partition, but I'd rather keep everything inside OSX where possible.
Any help is very much appreciated.
dhmmjoph