1GB of shareware and public domain software from 1993

[returningmacuser]

Second one is up. See my last post.

Uh, could you change them to .sit files? I just remembered that .sea files didn't work if you copied them from a non-OS 9 machine, and I'm downloading them from my OS X powered iBook, my sole internet machine. Sorry... :I

 

[Maconthemove]

My attempted failed using Safari 3.1. It just showed garbled text and then said Not enough memory. There is 27 gigs free, a sit or dmg file would be better.

 

[returningmacuser]

My attempted failed using Safari 3.1. It just showed garbled text and then said Not enough memory. There is 27 gigs free, a sit or dmg file would be better.

Did you try Crtl-click and save as?

 

[coius]

uh... could you guys make up your mind? I can't keep doing this. Pick a format and stick with it.

What would cause a .sea format to not work if copied from a non-os 9 machine. If you guys have OS X, it should be fine.

 

[Sludgedragon]

.sea files didn't work if you copied them from a non-OS 9 machine

I downloaded the Educorp .sea files fine with Tiger and Netscape 9. They wouldn't self-extract, but when I dropped them on Stuffit Expander 10.0, that opened them.

Just like digging around and finding a bunch of really old floppies, except without the floppies. :lol:

 

[Maconthemove]

Tried Opera and had no problems downloading the files.

 

[Temetka]

uh... could you guys make up your mind? I can't keep doing this. Pick a format and stick with it.
What would cause a .sea format to not work if copied from a non-os 9 machine. If you guys have OS X, it should be fine.

I have to agree with you. I don't understand why all these people with all these computers are having such a huge issue with 2 files.

 

[Quadraman]

I only recommended using .sea because I thought it would be easier for everyone to have the decompressor built into the file even though it does make the file slightly bigger because the file can be used by anyone even if they don't have the tool that was used to compress the file. I wasn't aware there were compatibility issues with .sea.

 

[coius]

does it extract at all?? If it doesn't, i will have to do it again, but if I have to go to another format like .sit, i will stick with it. Beggers can't be choosers I am not going to put every file format

 

[returningmacuser]

does it extract at all?? If it doesn't, i will have to do it again, but if I have to go to another format like .sit, i will stick with it. Beggers can't be choosers I am not going to put every file format

It actually DOES extract! I changed the filetype and creator to Sit and it works perfectly.

 

[returningmacuser]

uh... could you guys make up your mind? I can't keep doing this. Pick a format and stick with it.
What would cause a .sea format to not work if copied from a non-os 9 machine. If you guys have OS X, it should be fine.

iCab downloaded it as a text file. Anyway, like I said, I got it to work when I changed the format to .sit

 

[coius]

Ok, i pre-changed the file extension to ".sit" It should work now

 

[gavo]

Hi Guys,

I downloaded these at the time, but have only just started to try and play with them. Anyone got any advice on how to get into the .sit archives for someone who only has an XP PC and an LC475?

I've tried stuffit expander on the PC which failed, and stuffit expander 4.0.2 on my 475 (the latest I have) - neither like the archives.

Then I found a friend with a modern Mac who was able to extract the files from the .sits and put them back into .zip, but on windows WinZIP doesnt like the archives cause its full of characters that are illegal for windows. On my 475 I've tried MacZip and Unzip, but both puke on the files (may be because they are so large).

I'm guessing my best bet is the friend with the modern mac, but does anyone know of a way to restuff these things on a modern mac in a format that my old stuffit on the 475 will like?

Cheers,

 

[returningmacuser]

Hi Guys,
I downloaded these at the time, but have only just started to try and play with them. Anyone got any advice on how to get into the .sit archives for someone who only has an XP PC and an LC475?

I've tried stuffit expander on the PC which failed, and stuffit expander 4.0.2 on my 475 (the latest I have) - neither like the archives.

Then I found a friend with a modern Mac who was able to extract the files from the .sits and put them back into .zip, but on windows WinZIP doesnt like the archives cause its full of characters that are illegal for windows. On my 475 I've tried MacZip and Unzip, but both puke on the files (may be because they are so large).

I'm guessing my best bet is the friend with the modern mac, but does anyone know of a way to restuff these things on a modern mac in a format that my old stuffit on the 475 will like?

Cheers,

Have you tried later versions of Stuffit Expander?

 

[tomlee59]

I recommend running some version of expander 5. It seems to unstuff many more of those older archives than does version 4.x. That's the very first thing I'd try. All those other options look harder.

 

[Rockin' Kat]

Hey Coius.

Just saw this thread and tried to download those files today.... Did you take them down? Your links just go to some index page on your website.

 

[FerazelX]

I get a message saying that they are being moved.

 

[gavo]

Guys,

First, after a bit more hunting I was able to find Stuffit Expander 5.5 and that runs happily on my 475 and recognizes the SIT archives So now my 475 is busily unstuffing the first CD (looks like its going to take a while! Especially as I'm doing it across the LAN - lucky I have a linintosh server ).

Second, I have created torrents of the two original SIT files for those of you that missed them the first time. I have limited upload bandwidth and am on a data cap, so would appreciate it if you could also seed these once you have them (depending on how many people there are that dont have them already I guess).

CD1 - http://www.mininova.org/tor/1415777

CD2 - http://www.mininova.org/tor/1415780

Torrents are good for this sort of stuff, and if we all keep seeding them as much as we are able, then if in the future someone comes across this thread and wants the software, it will be available (yay for the community).

Cheers,

 

[coius]

Hi guys. Sorry, I didn't realize they went down. I guess I had moved the files. These are the locations:

http://coius.info/educorp1.sit

http://coius.info/educorp2.sit

those are hosted on my sub-site of my http://www.troubleshootnow.com/ forum

Anyways, if it doesn't work, let me know. I should be leaving them there

 

[Driverguru]

uh... could you guys make up your mind? I can't keep doing this. Pick a format and stick with it.
What would cause a .sea format to not work if copied from a non-os 9 machine. If you guys have OS X, it should be fine.

SEA (self extracting archives) , I am pretty sure, have two file forks and all non mac OSses destroy the shorter file fork. In your case the resource fork. This destroys password protected stuffit files also. Stuffit put the password in a second file (a resource fork file) that windows will strip off. Yes... stuffit was written by retarded people.

As for DMG on OS9, a R-W capable, non compressed, non-encrypted DMG not containing multiple partitions or any partition table info, containing a HFS volume or HFS+ volume, CAN be mounted in OS9 if the mounting tool skips the preamble section. I think this section ends on a 512 byte boundary to allow read-writes to be on proper 512 byte block boundaries.

No one outside Apple ever wrote a tool to do so, but I think someone might have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image

Currently, the only way to open a DMG in Mac OS 9 is to use the developer version of Apple's Disk Copy (version 6.4), or a beta version of the unreleased 6.5 Apple's Disk Copy

If you cannot locate this, I can write you a tool. I have written private OS9 tools that mount a lot of different types of highly fragmented files. (Many mounting tools cannot mount files with more than 3 file fragment spans)