Unable to connect my digispark Attiny85 to arduino IDE

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I have never posted to this forum so please bare with me. I am in a real pickle. I had a project that requires a small MCU and I had a bunch of the Digispark ATtiny85's and i decided to use them. I thought installing them looked easy but NO!!!!! Anyway I went through several tutorials that showed me how to install the correct board in the Board Manager/How to select this board in the sketch/and how to verify the program. This is where it all goes south.

I am using a MAC running 10.15.7 (Catalina) by the way.

I get this message and I don't know how to get out of this jamb.

fork/exec /Users/Gnather/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avr-gcc/4.8.1-arduino5/bin/avr-g++: bad CPU type in executable

Compilation error: fork/exec /Users/Gnather/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avr-gcc/4.8.1-arduino5/bin/avr-g++: bad CPU type in executable..

It also shows that the ATtiny is not connected but the way I read the tutorials the programming should ask for it to be connected at a certain time

I'm not all that savy when it comes to faults so If you might kindly give me some help I would appreciate it. Also I have been using Arduino products for over a decade and Im familiar with them
but have only just got to the ATtiny recently and don't really understand its ins and out.

Anything would be nice. So TIA

D Morris

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Did you go through this Arduino Support page?

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yes i have now read the help article but have not had a chance to try out the solution. I have been busy with taxes...end of the year you know. anyway I will get back with you about the solution they provided. Also my processor is not silicon its an 2.9 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5. So, I am going to choose the second step rather than the first....Figure Ill need Rosetta to get this working. Oddly enough (not really) it works fine on my Windows 10 machine. But I hate dealing with PC file hierarchy...it just sucks IMHO. :smirk:

D Morris

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Try linux. I have liberated many friends with Live Linux (bootable USB session with option to install permanently).

Try a Linux flavor:

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