Squeeze image compression

[karrots]

I am working on extracting images from a clipart collection called "Electronic Clipper". The images seem to be compressed with Disk Doubler and a program called SQUEEZE or possibly COLORSQUEEZE™ Decompress. The first disk user guide mentions that the collection should have a disk with Squeeze on it it for extraction of color images. I don't have this disk. I can't see it on Macintosh Garden or Macintosh Repository. Does anyone know more about the compression method mentioned?

In reality I don't need the program in Macintosh 68k format if a similar third party program exists for Linux. I currently have the image extraction automated on my linux machine with unar taking care of the DD compressed images. If I have to manually extract the color images on my old Mac that is fine. It would be nice to just keep feeding disk images and let the script take care of things.

 

[olePigeon]

Have you tried GraphicConverter?  It might be able to open the compressed image files.

 

[olePigeon]

@karrots  https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-giga-rom-40-1993-apps-utilities-games

I think this CD-ROM may have a copy of COLORSQUEEZE in it.  It's listed as one of the files in an index text file.

 

[karrots]

Have you tried GraphicConverter?  It might be able to open the compressed image files.

The one file in question still shows as a TIFF file when reading the header. But no TIFF reader including 1.x versions of Graphics convertor will open it. Which is what leads me to believe its compressed with SQUEEZE like the disk mentions. I'm still extracting other disks and I assume I'll find others eventually. 

Thanks for the CD-ROM suggestion I'll take a look.

I did find that The Unarchiver supposedly opens SQUEEZE files but it doesn't recognize this one file. 

I'll report back after I've imaged the next 100 disks. I imaged 24 and wrote an extraction/decompression shell script to process the DiskCopy images and extract/decompress the contents.

 

[karrots]

Color Squeeze on the mentioned CD was what I needed. Thanks for the tip.