[miles]

> It's a real shame there's nothing like Wine for the late PPC/early Intel era of OS X. That entire galaxy of apps basically just no longer have anything to run on.

PPC apps run great in QEMU/UTM on Apple silicon:

Run Tiger, Leopard, or any Mac OS X PowerPC version on M1 https://tinyapps.org/docs/tiger-on-m1.html

Intel emulation works too, but is not nearly as performant at present:

Virtualizing OpenCore and x86 macOS on Apple Silicon (and even iOS!) https://khronokernel.com/apple/silicon/2021/01/17/QEMU-AS.ht...

Emulating Windows XP x86 under M1 Mac via UTM & QEMU https://tinyapps.org/blog/202105220715_m1_mac_emulate_x86.ht...

[troad]

Could that run Pac the Man X? The fact that the guide you link suggests optimisations like disabling the 3D dock makes me think it would struggle mightily with a game. Afaik UTM doesn't support any GPU emulation or virtualisation at all. I'd love to be wrong on this.