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I'm confused about this conclusion: This is incorrect. MFS and HFS are both well supported by System 6; HFS support was supplied in the ROM of the Mac Plus (wikipedia). HFS is readable and writable on Mac OS X from 10.0 to 10.5, before the support for writing to HFS disks was dropped in 10.6...

Another CD-ROM service worth calling out; Metatec Nautilus, a Compuserve spinoff, was kind of a CD-ROM magazine mostly populated with BBS shareware, some articles, and product demos. With each volume, they had a rotating selection of software that you could buy by phone. There absolutely were...

If you were dealing with anything Adobe-related at the time (mid 90s), Type On Call was a little hard to escape. A CD with fonts that you could "unlock" with codes by calling Adobe through credit card purchases. Horrendously expensive, not that convenient, but if you didn't want to buy the...

There's a lineage between a couple of the tools named here; Paracomp (Swivel 3D, ModelShop [as told by a fellow that worked on it], and a few clipart disks) merged with MacroMind to become MacroMind-Paracomp before it merged with yet another company to become Macromedia, where one of the...

Mini vMac is fine. It's not only had a fully functional 64 bit version for some time, the latest Cocoa version has been properly code signed to avoid those annoying nag screens when you don't select "File", "Open..." or right click then "Open..." the binary. The biggest casualties are apps that...

Ideally the user keeps the SEA and its associated files in individual Disk Copy 4.2 images to avoid resource fork portability problems. The forks for the images can be recreated easily, if needed. Most Mac Plus adjacent solutions, like the Floppy Emu and Mini vMac, handle DC42 images with few...

Another option for friendlier Mac Plus usage, without having to make the user finagle with the right versions of StuffIt or archive apps at all... Yes, the nicest way i know to avoid bootstrapping problems like this is; build a Compact Pro or StuffIt <= 4 Self-Extracting Archive (SEA)...

This was a fun benchmark to run. All on Quadra motherboard video, with a Thunder/24 acting as the QuickColor accelerator and what I now realize is an incredibly underrated L2 cache card from DiiMO, called the "Quadra Cache" in the silk screen on the PDS card. @beachycove I have to apologize for...

I'll try digging into it next weekend! I know I have at least one benchmark that tests QuickDraw to try on it. It has been awhile since I've done much benchmarking with the Quadra. I'd also like to try it with and without the DiiMO QuadraCache PDS card I have for it, to see if that also makes...

To be completely honest with you, it was a tongue-in-cheek means of plugging the project. Perhaps effective at that. Though I was following some train of thought that went something like, SheepShaver was originally created to bridge an applications gap with BeOS during its PowerPC years by...

Appearance Manager 1.0.4 has the ability to turn off applying the Apple Platinum style on all apps, except for those that need Platinum (Transmit, Mac OS 8 Finder). Should be a checkbox in the Appearance control panel. It works perfectly fine on Mac OS 8.1. For the Finder, you'll need to...

I had to share your technique with a friend. It's a great way to take advantage of UNIX's everything is a file philosophy to get out of a jam. Thank you! It was a fun thought exercise.

Rken is an NDIF image compressed with Apple's proprietary KenCode codec (check the section on New Disk Image Format from this excellent TidBITS article), which to my limited knowledge hasn't been reverse engineered unlike some other forms of compression. ROCo should be more future proof.

Looking further down that A/UX 2.0 compatibility tech note, it seems A/UX 1.x formatted its "UNIX" volumes as UNIX System V File System (svfs or s5fs in shorthand) and not the more recent Berkeley 4.2 UFS that A/UX 2 and 3 used by default. Unfortunately, it looks like there are several variants...

As I understand this, you're able to copy your A/UX floppies to an A/UX system, and the problem is that you are trying to get those files onto something that a (Windows?) PC can understand. Since this is on a SCSI2SD, they're already on an SD card. I'm not familiar with A/UX 1.1.1, I am...

I believe DART was originally made for this purpose. Mac OS X can read DART files, and I believe Disk Copy 6.3.3 can, too. If the DART file is left uncompressed, it's essentially a Disk Copy 4.2 image. EDIT: I'm assuming that you can find an external SCSI disk, a SCSI2SD or a Floppy Emu to...

Value with second hand software is funny. In the way that, you can see copies of old Adobe stuff such as the later iterations of the Creative Suite going for hundreds on brand recognition and acknowledged use, while the vast majority of software that has no mainstream recognition can sit forever...

Totally is.  :mrgreen:  Clicking on that name should take you to his profile, if you'd like to drop a PM.

TOPS is absolutely rare. I believe @Dog Cow was trying to get TOPS sharing to work between two Macs, but couldn't with only a single serial. The rest, I would strongly recommend preserving in some manner. How exactly, I will leave those suggestions to the experts.  :) I think archive.org has...

That's kind of what Disk Utility is... was?  :)  It hides most of the sharp edges from you. Not very well, but it does There is a secret user defaults option that exposes some of these formats in Disk Utility. I don't know if it's useful for the newer, simpler post-El Capitan Disk Utility. I...