Hi everybody -

I purchased HoMM IV for Mac a few years back and it has seemed to work fine.

I recently just purchased a MacBook Pro (OS X 10.7.2) - and it won't let me install the game on the new Mac. It says the "PowerPC" things are no longer supported.

There's gotta be a way around that, right? I literally know nothing about computers, but I just wanna get this game to work. Thanks for the help!!!

I am not an expert but I was able to run windows games on linux using WINE. You can download WINE for Mac, maybe thats somewhere you can start looking:

http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/

HoMM IV for Mac was created when Macintosh computers all still used IBM PowerPC processors. These days, Macs use Intel processors.

Since you said, "I literally know nothing about computers," I'll briefly explain what a "processor" is. Basically, it's your computer's brain. It's the part that reads all of the programming code and makes the instructions in the code happen. However, different processors are built differently. Most desktop and laptop computers are made with the same basic kind of processor these days. However, game consoles, phones, and other devices use different kinds of processors. Until seven or eight years ago, Macs also used a different kind of processor.

So is there a way around it? I don't know of a way to get old Mac/PowerPC games to run on current Macs. There might be some kind of workaround, but it's likely to be slow and unstable.

Your best bet is to purchase a PC copy (like the one here from GOG!) and install it using Wineskin: http://wineskin.doh123.com/, or to install Windows via BootCamp (http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/) and play the game in Windows.