I just got a Macintosh Plus and a Powerbook 180 and I'm new to the whole Mac universe, so please forgive the noob question.
I couldn't find a sticky on that subject, though I imagine my question is one that many people now to the subject will have.
How do I get software on to the Macintosh/Powerbook?
My Mac has a HDD and 800kB floppy disk drive, so what I've done was take a DOS formatted floppy disk, put the programs on it and transferred it to the PowerBook, From there I put it on a 800kB floppy.
Most software I found was as .SIT files, which the Mac can't use. The Stuffit Expander for my OS (System 6 on Mac, System 7 on PB) comes as a disk image, but how do I get a disk image on to a disk? The disk image software i found can't be executed, it is a file (without any extension), which has "PC" as its icon
I tried to extract the files from the .SIT files with Stuffit Expander for Windows, only to find that there is another .SIT file inside, and trying to expand that gives an error.
So I can transfer files on to the Mac/PB, which is good, but I haven't been able to find any files that I cold actually run.
Could someone help me out and tell me what I need to do?
Also, I'd like to upgrade the Mac's OS to 7.5. How would I do that?
I couldn't find a sticky on that subject, though I imagine my question is one that many people now to the subject will have.
How do I get software on to the Macintosh/Powerbook?
My Mac has a HDD and 800kB floppy disk drive, so what I've done was take a DOS formatted floppy disk, put the programs on it and transferred it to the PowerBook, From there I put it on a 800kB floppy.
Most software I found was as .SIT files, which the Mac can't use. The Stuffit Expander for my OS (System 6 on Mac, System 7 on PB) comes as a disk image, but how do I get a disk image on to a disk? The disk image software i found can't be executed, it is a file (without any extension), which has "PC" as its icon
I tried to extract the files from the .SIT files with Stuffit Expander for Windows, only to find that there is another .SIT file inside, and trying to expand that gives an error.
So I can transfer files on to the Mac/PB, which is good, but I haven't been able to find any files that I cold actually run.
Could someone help me out and tell me what I need to do?
Also, I'd like to upgrade the Mac's OS to 7.5. How would I do that?