I'm extremely new to the whole "classic" Mac thing so please bear with me if I'm asking dumb questions, but...
I got a Macintosh Plus which I have now upgraded (among other mods) with internal BlueSCSI (with WiFi!) - I thought this is all I will ever need to easilytime travel transfer files between the Macintosh Plus and my more modern computers.
I started with a BlueSCSI bootstrap image, but my eventual goal was to move to a fresh copy of System 7.0.1 with only the essential tools (which in the case of my ignorance basically meant working TCP/IP stack and an FTP client). My hope was that with such a minimal system I could slowly build the collection of apps and games of my choosing.
Unfortunately it seems I'm completely missing how transferring files to those old machines is supposed to be done. There's a plethora of different file formats (`sit`, `smi`, `bin` and `hqx`) and often the actual software is double packed. Almost none of the apps I downloaded with FTP seem to open - sometimes the FTP client even refuses to download the file complaining about "Unknown Binary Mode" (I'm Using Fetch 2.1.2). I somehow managed to get StuffIt Expander installed (and that required Disk Copy first for some reason), but I still can't open many of the `sit` files I have found online.
So far the best solution to copy things over seems to be to use Infinite Mac to generate a disk image (as the image they're using seems to contain the necessary bits for opening whatever I throw at it) and then copy it over onto my BlueSCSI SD Card, but that is very cumbersome.
So could anyone walk me through what am I doing wrong? I explicitly set out on this adventure with the goal of not using any "pre-built" images that come with hundreds of apps, because I want to understand how this system works and it's hard to do that if I just get everything pre-configured.
My eventual goal is to actually create software for this computer myself, so I really need a proper workflow for getting files (and binaries) to and from the machine quickly.
I got a Macintosh Plus which I have now upgraded (among other mods) with internal BlueSCSI (with WiFi!) - I thought this is all I will ever need to easily
I started with a BlueSCSI bootstrap image, but my eventual goal was to move to a fresh copy of System 7.0.1 with only the essential tools (which in the case of my ignorance basically meant working TCP/IP stack and an FTP client). My hope was that with such a minimal system I could slowly build the collection of apps and games of my choosing.
Unfortunately it seems I'm completely missing how transferring files to those old machines is supposed to be done. There's a plethora of different file formats (`sit`, `smi`, `bin` and `hqx`) and often the actual software is double packed. Almost none of the apps I downloaded with FTP seem to open - sometimes the FTP client even refuses to download the file complaining about "Unknown Binary Mode" (I'm Using Fetch 2.1.2). I somehow managed to get StuffIt Expander installed (and that required Disk Copy first for some reason), but I still can't open many of the `sit` files I have found online.
So far the best solution to copy things over seems to be to use Infinite Mac to generate a disk image (as the image they're using seems to contain the necessary bits for opening whatever I throw at it) and then copy it over onto my BlueSCSI SD Card, but that is very cumbersome.
So could anyone walk me through what am I doing wrong? I explicitly set out on this adventure with the goal of not using any "pre-built" images that come with hundreds of apps, because I want to understand how this system works and it's hard to do that if I just get everything pre-configured.
My eventual goal is to actually create software for this computer myself, so I really need a proper workflow for getting files (and binaries) to and from the machine quickly.