Hi

[~tl]

Some of the link's on Gamba's TidBits page still worked last time I tried them (a few months ago):

http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/tidbits.html

They should be self extracting archives (.sea) IIRC.

 

[Bunsen]

Don't unpack Mac files on the PC. It loses the resource fork, which is important.

 

[heebiejeebies]

The sit files should be fine on windows. The archives with the messed up dos filenames will still work fine on the Mac too, you just need to get StuffIt to recognise them as actually being archives.

As for losing quality...Crikey, what is this, the Bang & Olufsen sound lab? In the unlikely event that you'd even notice the difference, the sound from an LC is hardly high-fidelity anyway. :

 

[Dennis Nedry]

AHA! I think .SEA.BIN will work! I made just such an archive of StuffIt Expander 5.1.3. You can get that here:

http://benboldt.spymac.com/stuffit.sea.bin

This will allow you to open most common old archives transferred from your PC. Once you have expanded this file on your Mac, you should be able to use the other files we mentioned earlier.

It actually is much better and very noticeable to use the original file. Have a look at the pictures in this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation

The Mac LC will play the sound like the picture labeled "Piecewise" (with vertical lines connecting the horizontal lines, making "stair" shapes) and newer versions of Quicktime will transform this into the picture labeled "Polynomial interpolation", making more natural sinusoidal shapes for playback. This actually restores information fairly accurately that was missing before. This would not be possible with a recording of the Mac LC.

Different types of interpolation like this are often used at the beginning of Calculus courses to estimate integrals (the area under a graph from point a to point B) .

 

[Flash!]

If you've managed to HQX the SND files and get them onto a PC formatted floppy, why don't you email them to someone here and have them converted for you? I'm sure somebody will volunteer for the job.... ;-)

(sorry, not me right now as I am in the wrong hemisphere and my arms are not long enough to reach my keyboard back home)

 

[Dennis Nedry]

If you've managed to HQX the SND files and get them onto a PC formatted floppy[...]

I don't think you're following exactly. The problem is that she can't use HQX files. I have uploaded StuffIt Expander 5 in .SEA.BIN format that should give her that ability if everything works right.

 

[Bunsen]

As for losing quality...Crikey / the sound from an LC is hardly high-fidelity anyway. :

That's the point The idea is to get hold of the original digital data without having to pass through the LC DAC

 

[kex]

Find and download a copy of binhex 5.0 to the LC. Make sure it will run

on a 68K.

Binhex will convert the .hqz file to the .sit file on the LC.

Then you can use stuffit to unpack the .sit file.

The copy of stuffit expander I run under OS 10.4.11 is also stupid

about .hqx files. I had the same problem on a IIci and a Quadra 700.

binhex was a common utility in the early 90's and it still is around.

To solve this problem i looked up the encoding format that is used

in .hqx files. Turns out it is binhex.

It would be helpful to change the name of this thread to something

linke "how do I decode a .hqx file?'

 

[kex]

linke? perhaps I should change my login name to "punny typo"