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Anyone have Farallon StarCommand?

pcamen

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I've got two of the Farallon StarControllers now, but both of them came with corrupt software floppies. :(

Anyone have a copy of the StarController StarCommand software disk imaged?
 

pcamen

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Oh, how random. I found a .sit archive of StarCommand 3.2 on a WAREZ collection someone passed on to me via Dropbox in 2015. There is a TON of stuff that is part of this collection and I've never given it a second look. I wonder if there are some lost things people have been looking for in there.

A lot of the dates are 2000 and 2001. This seems like the kind of pirated software that was being passed around at that time, on a hidden FTP server, hence the name WAREZ.

Attached is a recursive directory listing if anyone wants to dig into it. There are 20,000+ lines in that LS, so there must be a TON of software on there.
 

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pcamen

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Wow, the files shared with me are still on dropbox after 6 years. I looked just to verify how they were packaged to see if they are done so in a way that preserves the resource fork; they are in zip files, which I am grabbing again. But a quick perusal seems to indicate that things in this collection are .sit files, which makes sense to preserve the resource fork if you were distributing this stuff via FTP at the time. This is pretty cool stuff.

The entire collection is 25GB, which is huge considering that in 2000 most computers had a hard drive in the 10GB capacity range.
 
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