Mac Hut is back

[joshc]

So you are probably wondering "what is Mac Hut".

Mac Hut is an archive of older 68K and PPC Macintosh software I started in 2005. It went offline in 2007, but now it's back. About 617.5MB worth of software is available for download. Another 50 GB (yes, gigabytes) is archived offline. The online collection is going to be updated regularly.

Browse the new archive at:

http://www.valleyofthelights.com/jcoventry/machut/

Enjoy. PM or e-mail any requests for specific files you can't find.

 

[Dog Cow]

Thank you for the archive; I'll be raiding it tomorrow. Now you just need to buy a server with a 50 GB disk for the rest.

 

[Watchsmart]

Wonderful. It's nice to have another source of old software. I hope you keep up the updates.

 

[joshc]

Thank you for your comments. The problem is not storage, but rather bandwidth.

I will be adding more files today.

For anyone interested, there's now a Gopher server as well (incomplete):

gopher://76.177.76.174/1machut.folder

 

[madcrow]

Awesome work! Should I report broken files in the thread or by PM though, at least one high profile program I'd been hoping to use is incomplete and thus won't install, but I'm not sure if I should name it on an open forum...

 

[joshc]

PM or e-mail any file requests or other feedback like broken links, etc.

 

[joshc]

I have uploaded over 300MB worth of updaters to Mac Hut - most of them will only work if you already have a previous version of the software installed. I am now uploading over 200MB of games, mostly shareware and demos.

 

[macgeek417]

I have uploaded over 300MB worth of updaters to Mac Hut - most of them will only work if you already have a previous version of the software installed. I am now uploading over 200MB of games, mostly shareware and demos.

Change the index page so it includes the "updaters" catagory

 

[MacPlusOwner]

I downloaded a few things from your site; thanks for putting that stuff out there :beige:

Cheers!

 

[joshc]

Important Note:

If you downloaded any .image, .img, .ima or .sea files from Mac Hut without any .hqx, .bin or .sit extensions, then please re-download these files. The ones you downloaded will have been corrupted due to the resource fork being lost. This is now fixed since I have archived the bare files within .sit archives. Sorry for the mess-up there.

 

[macgeek417]

Important Note:If you downloaded any .image, .img, .ima or .sea files from Mac Hut without any .hqx, .bin or .sit extensions, then please re-download these files. The ones you downloaded will have been corrupted due to the resource fork being lost. This is now fixed since I have archived the bare files within .sit archives. Sorry for the mess-up there.

...But why would disk images need a resource fork under OSX???

 

[joshc]

Important Note:If you downloaded any .image, .img, .ima or .sea files from Mac Hut without any .hqx, .bin or .sit extensions, then please re-download these files. The ones you downloaded will have been corrupted due to the resource fork being lost. This is now fixed since I have archived the bare files within .sit archives. Sorry for the mess-up there.

...But why would disk images need a resource fork under OSX???

Those are old images, created using Disk Copy. Those files have resource forks. .dmg files created in OS X are a whole other story.

 

[macgeek417]

I seeeeeeeeeeeeee...

 

[madcrow]

SIT files probably are the best way to provide both compression and fork protection, though you should make sure that your SITs will properly open in at least StuffIt Expander 5.5, if not earlier. Providing a .bin wrapper is probably a good idea too, though, as you can't be TOO careful.

 

[macgeek417]

Yeah... and compress it with stuffit 1.5 for max compatibility...

No, really!

 

[joshc]

I compress using DropStuff 5.1.2 on OS 9 and with DropStuff 7.0 on OS X. Haven't had any compatibility issues so far.

 

[macgeek417]

I compress using DropStuff 5.1.2 on OS 9 and with DropStuff 7.0 on OS X. Haven't had any compatibility issues so far.

Stuffit 5 uses a differant format, just like 1.6.1 used a differant format than 1.5.1

Try expanding some Stuffit 5 files using Stuffit 4

 

[joshc]

As long as people have Stuffit Expander 5.5, they should be fine.

There is now approx. 1.31 GB on the server.

I might be adding .txt files with descriptions/version numbers/etc for every file, but this will be very time consuming, so we'll see.

There is now an IRC channel:

#machut on irc.freenode.net

I hope everyone is enjoying Mac Hut.

 

[chris]

Wackymacs, see my reply in the Free System 6 Software thread.