[haxxorfreak]

If you only need to run Aperture I've had good success using Retroactive[1] on my M1 Max machine running Monterrey to patch it to run under Rosetta. Almost everything works fine except anything tied to iCloud and some of the video and slideshow features. It's been great in letting me access my older photos which have adjustments that I don't want to re-create in Lightroom.

It will copy over the missing frameworks and modify the app so the OS will run it even though it's unsupported, if you're interested there is a technical breakdown that goes into detail[2].

[1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

[2] https://medium.com/@cormiertyshawn895/deep-dive-how-does-ret...

[jwr]

Alas, while Retroactive is fantastic, it doesn't solve the problem of Aperture, because RAW decoding doesn't seem to work. My TIFF and JPEG files are visible, but RAWs show up as black previews and can't be decoded.

[EricE]

Nice - thanks for sharing this!