After Whitaker’s Words failed on my Mac mini after I upgraded to Mac OS 27 Golden Gate, I conferred with Claude (Anthropic’s AI), who diagnosed the problem: Rosetta wasn’t restored on upgrade. And in MacOS 28, Intel apps will stop opening entirely.
The quick fix is:
$ softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license
I asked Claude to recompile it for Apple Silicon, and am enclosing the results, which work on my Mac mini. I also just copy and pasted the directory into my Macbook Air, and it’s working well in both places. There were no permissions problems.
This is the link to the folder, if you want to try it out.
I am no programmer. And I offer this with no guarantees.