The thread you link was adopted by others to formulate instructions to install Snow Leopard client into VMWare Fusion (and perhaps VirtualBox, as well). Apple sat by quietly (and perhaps even with a smile on their face) as its shills propogated that myth, which of course resulted in the increase of sales of Snow Leopard Server. There was a common Urban Myth that the Snow Leopard EULA prohibited the virtualization of Snow Leopard client in Lion or Mt. Why? Because Parallels comes with instructions to easily install Snow Leopard Server, whereas you will see from my old thread, I have to use a shoehorn (Terminal) to get Parallels to accept Snow Leopard client. Why Snow Leopard client instead of Snow Leopard Server?īecause 'in those days' Apple sold Snow Leopard client for $19.99, while Snow Leopard Server was $499+!

But most of my future gaming will be done on PC.Īctually the thread you link was my method to install Snow Leopard client into Parallels. I'll always be a Mac guy, but my Mac is now used mostly for serious work & only a few Mac-native games thanks to companies like Feral.

Microsoft rely heavily on generating maximum sales of new editions of Windows, so really can't afford to pi** off too many of their users with hastened obsolescence. Kindly note, IMO, no good guys or bad guys here, only business.

Now I find that Windows 8 is at least on a par with Windows 7 for backward-compatibility with gaming, if not even better! I already had a cheap PC laptop & found Windows 7 to be not bad at all. Having been left with hundreds of pounds worth of Mac-native games that no longer worked on my new Lion Mac, I decided I'd had enough of Apple in this one respect.

Click to expand.An 'iRony' not lost on me, not least as I'd built a decent Mac-native games collection at some cost, including a good number of titles that relied on Rosetta support.

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