Wanting to view old QuickTake Images

[AWPresley]

Saw this thread in the archives:
archive/topic.asp.TOPIC_ID=5781.html

and it mentions "QuickTake Drop"...

but the links are now dead.

I have some old images from my original QuickTake 100 camera that I'd like to look through and convert to jpg before I lose the ability to do so.

Photoshop CS4 can't read them.
Preview in 10.4.11 can't read them.

Anyone have a suggestion?

Alan
in Houston, TX

and I may have some classic (and I mean WAY classic stuff coming up for sale if anyone is interested.)

For sale items have been split to this thread — ~tl

[~tl]

I've not tried it for this, but Graphics Converter is probably worth a shot... since it opens pretty much anything:

http://www.lemkesoft.com/xd/public/cont ... E5Mw_.html

[Mars478]

What do you have for sale? This is the perfect place for such things.
Sorry I can be of no help with your problem

[AWPresley]

Hi ~tl,
Thanks for the suggestion!
but it did not work. I still got the same message about needing QuickTime and QuickTake Decompressor when I opened the file in Graphics Converter.

I may have to dig out one of the old macs with ethernet and see if I can get anything to convert.

unless someone has another suggestion...

[beachycove]

I seem to recall that the Quicktake software is a free download from Apple's older software download page.

[AWPresley]

http://www.info.apple.com/support/older ... elist.html
(gateway timeout)

http://www.apple.com/isync/download/
errored out

I'll try again later.

[AWPresley]

Update:

Thanks for the recommendation beachycove, the Quicktake software IS STILL on the older software page (as of 10-6-2009):
http://www.info.apple.com/support/older ... elist.html
(do a find for "QuickTake" once the page loads)

I downloaded it, unstuffed it in OSX 10.4.11 (on my Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5), started classic, opened the disc image, shut down all applications in OSX, double-clicked the installer (it adds extensions to OS9 / classic), restarted classic and I could then open the QuickTake images in SimpleText (I don't have a classic-era photoshop installed currently, but I'm guessing that would work now).

I could then print the old QuickTake Images and then choose my OSX's Adobe PDF printer drivers and save them as PDF to the OSX desktop.

(i need a smiley of a mac doing a happy dance!!!)

... Let's see you do THAT Snow Leopard...



ok, so the images are a bit pixelated, but hey it's QuickTake 100 digital images taken in the mid 90's!

If you guys come across the QuickTake Drop, I'd still like to see and experience it.

Thanks for all the help!

[ccmac]

This is about the only source that I know of for QuickTake Drop: http://www.chemicalshift.com/computers/apple-quicktake-150/. However, the actual download link doesn't work but the file is still definitely listed in the file directory http://www.chemicalshift.com/files/. Try contacting the website owner to get him to fix the download link.

[Mac128]

... Let's see you do THAT Snow Leopard...

Actually, using SheepShaver (which is no different than Apple's Classic environment and in some ways better), I can easily do all of that under Snow Leopard, probably faster than on your G5.

I'm not entirely sure why you had to shut down all applications in OS X. What did that accomplish since you were using Classic exclusively?

FYI, I can also print to a post script file using MacWrite on my 128K Mac, transfer the file directly into Snow Leopard using MacTerminal and open it with Preview, perfectly formatted as it appeared on the 128K, then save as a PDF.

[AWPresley]

... Let's see you do THAT Snow Leopard...

Actually, using SheepShaver (which is no different than Apple's Classic environment and in some ways better), I can easily do all of that under Snow Leopard, probably faster than on your G5.

"SheepShaver"... hmmm.... I'll have to check that out on my SnowLeopard MacBook Pro. Thanks for the info!

I'm not entirely sure why you had to shut down all applications in OS X. What did that accomplish since you were using Classic exclusively?

It was a coded requirement of the classic installer. I had no option but to click the "Close all applications and Install" button. That started shutting down all my OSX apps, but it had a problem doing so, so I helped it out and shut them down so it could proceed.

FYI, I can also print to a post script file using MacWrite on my 128K Mac, transfer the file directly into Snow Leopard using MacTerminal and open it with Preview, perfectly formatted as it appeared on the 128K, then save as a PDF.

Cool to know also! My G5 OS9 install doesn't have much installed other than the default apps. The PDF looks just like the Simpletext version.. both low res.

Thanks for the information!

[Mike Richardson]

... Let's see you do THAT Snow Leopard...

Actually, using SheepShaver (which is no different than Apple's Classic environment and in some ways better), I can easily do all of that under Snow Leopard, probably faster than on your G5.

SheepShaver is way different from the Classic environment.

I also seriously doubt that an Intel Mac running SheepShaver (emulating a PPC) is faster than a G5 running SheepShaver that merely passes instructions through. On the other hand, Basilisk II may be faster on Intel than it is on PPC, since either one emulates, and the Intel Mac would probably be faster, unless it's something like a Dual 2.7 G5 vs a Dual 1.83 Intel.

[AWPresley]

update: I got a reply from chemicalshift and they sent me the software!!!

Does 68kMLA have a repository of old software and would be interested in hosting this for the future?

[ccmac]

You could try uploading it to http://machut.org/archive/ or even http://www.macintoshgarden.org/