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mcgski 07-19-2011 01:08 PM

Alice 3.0 and OS X Lion
 
Hello. I'm new to the forum and didn't see this in any search results.

I've just recently installed Alice 2.2 for my daughter on her Mac Mini and noticed it required Rosetta during the install process. This implies there are sections of code that are PPC and not Intel. According to the scuttlebutt around the next OS X release 10.7, support for PPC and Rosetta will be removed.

Are there plans to make Alice 3.0 compatible with the newer operating systems from Apple?

Thanks.

Dj Tech42 07-19-2011 05:43 PM

Alice 2.2 is PPC and will probably never be updated unfortunately :( . Alice 3.0 is Intel, however, and should work fine. It didn't need Rosetta on Snow Leopard.

I am in the same boat as you as I won't be able to run Alice 2.2 when I update to Mac OS X Lion. All my projects were made in Alice 2.2 and aren't compatible with Alice 3. :(:(:(

Ompus 07-22-2011 11:26 AM

No Joy
 
I downloaded 3.0 to my Lionized Mac. Opening the installer yields nothing. No 'Alice', no dialog messages, no error messages.

Bummer.

beachbum111111 07-22-2011 12:00 PM

[QUOTE=Dj Tech42;39349]Alice 2.2 is PPC and will probably never be updated unfortunately :( . Alice 3.0 is Intel, however, and should work fine. It didn't need Rosetta on Snow Leopard.

I am in the same boat as you as I won't be able to run Alice 2.2 when I update to Mac OS X Lion. All my projects were made in Alice 2.2 and aren't compatible with Alice 3. :(:(:([/QUOTE]

Alice 2.2 works on both intel and powerpc.

Philip19Miller 07-22-2011 01:36 PM

Alice and the Lion
 
Alice doesn't work on Lion. :mad:

beachbum111111 07-22-2011 05:39 PM

It will update. Lion is only a couple a days old.

Dj Tech42 07-22-2011 06:11 PM

It is PowerPC. It only works on Intel if you use Rosetta to emulate. Lion drops support for Rosetta, so no Alice. :(

Dj Tech42 07-22-2011 07:29 PM

Explanation here: [url]http://roaringapps.com/app:2099[/url]

jfucci 07-24-2011 08:52 AM

[QUOTE=Ompus;39530]I downloaded 3.0 to my Lionized Mac. Opening the installer yields nothing. No 'Alice', no dialog messages, no error messages.

Bummer.[/QUOTE]

I had the same problem. Turned out that Java was not fully installed after I upgraded to Lion. Go to Utilities -> Java Preferences and this will get the process going for downloading and installing what is needed. After this completed, I was able to install Alice 3.0 without any problems.

Philip19Miller 07-24-2011 10:29 AM

two partitions - two big cats
 
[QUOTE=beachbum111111;39531]Alice 2.2 works on both intel and powerpc.[/QUOTE]

Alice does not run under Lion. I partitioned my hard drive and now have a Snow Leopard partition and a Lion partition. The only thing that I am running in the Snow Leopard partition is Alice. :roll eyes:

I will be delighted to learn that I am wrong and Alice actually does run on Lion.


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