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Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions by Rebelgecko on Saturday June 22, 2019 @02:59PM (#20251124)
That's pretty much it. Its really annoying to have to dual boot Windows so that I can play a game like Civ IV. It's sad that a number of somewhat recent games, as well as games that I want to fire up for nostalgia purposes (e.g. Starcraft) don't work anymore.
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Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions by moduspol on Saturday June 22, 2019 @08:15PM (#20252466)
They're already working on getting Starcraft to 64 bit [1], but Starcraft is also interesting in that this is the second time this has happened. As a PowerPC application, it also required Rosetta back in the day, and now will need further recompilation for 64-bit only Macs.

[1] https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20762237268#...

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Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions by Rebelgecko on Saturday June 22, 2019 @09:04PM (#20252644)
True, Blizzard in particular does a fantastic job supporting their older games. It's still a bummer for other games, such as the beloved (by me) Escape Velocity series, whose publisher is now defunct.

Its also annoying for people with some commercial software. My dad uses an older nonsubscription version of photoshop and some desktop publishing software that I believe will be incompatible with Catalina

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Re:macOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions by qwerty456127 on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:45PM (#20251358)
Having spare time to play Civilization is a luxury (I could only afford this when I was a child, now I only have a humble amount of time left after working, studying, sleeping and working out and I prefer to spend this time with my loved one, outdoors usually). You better just enjoy it and don't waste it on thoughts about annoyances.

As for StarCraft you can run it in VirtualBox, or perhaps even DOSBox with Windows95 might be enough.

Nevertheless I agree people should care about keeping old games playable - these are an important part of human cultural legacy, a fairly serious form of art, as are paintings, literature, etc.

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