Darwine problems?

blasteryui · Post by **blasteryui** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:02 am

Hey guys I got a ibook g4, I installed darwine, I tried running MSN Messenger 7.0 "it says it works" and it doesn't work I just get an error saying it didn't worry and has closed. I tried utorrent, same deal, then I went to the darwine folder and went into applications and tried clocks.exe and that didn't work either.

Help me out?

Thanks

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:17 am

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:02 AM, blasteryui <[email protected]> wrote:

Hey guys I got a ibook g4, I installed darwine, I tried running MSN Messenger 7.0 "it says it works" and it doesn't work I just get an error saying it didn't worry and has closed. I tried utorrent, same deal, then I went to the darwine folder and went into applications and tried clocks.exe and that didn't work either.

Help me out?

Thanks

Darwine for ppc is _really_ outdated. I don't think it ever really
worked anyway...

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-Austin

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:35 pm

blasteryui wrote:

Hey guys I got a ibook g4, I installed darwine, I tried running MSN Messenger 7.0 "it says it works" and it doesn't work I just get an error saying it didn't worry and has closed. I tried utorrent, same deal, then I went to the darwine folder and went into applications and tried clocks.exe and that didn't work either.

Most of the latest versions of Darwine are for Intel Macs only. You
have a Power PC Mac.

You can investigate the status of Darwine for the PowerPC on the Darwine
web page which is hosted on Sourceforge.

As a note: I do have a PowerPC Mac, and recommend Mac based replacement
programs for MSN Messenger and uTorrent. They do exist.

James McKenzie

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:44 pm

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:34 AM, James McKenzie
<[email protected]> wrote:

As a note: I do have a PowerPC Mac, and recommend Mac based replacement
programs for MSN Messenger and uTorrent. They do exist.

About uTorrent: A mac beta is available, and it looks like it might
work on the PowerPC CPUs:
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=50005

For MSN, I would recommend Adium, but MS has an OS X version available:
http://www.adiumx.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads. ... 4F3#viewer

Gert