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DiskCopy v6.4 & v6.0

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Download Disk_Copy_6.4.sit (557.54 KB)
For Mac OS 9
Download diskcopy_6.0.sit (30.99 KB)
For Mac OS 9
Emulation
Guides on emulating older applications

This is an Apple Internal release of DiskCopy, v6.4, for OS9.

This version is able to mount and edit (unencrypted) OSX disk images, .dmg, in OS9.

Not sure how useful it's going to be on this site, but it allows possibilities.

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Although the last official public release of Disk Copy for Mac OS 9 was version 6.3.3, there was to be a version 6.5 that supported the newer DMG image format introduced with Mac OS X. But because Apple had stopped support for OS 9 already, support for the old OS was eventually removed in favor of OS X. As such the OS 9 version of 6.5 only ever made it to beta 13 before development on it stopped. There was also a developer version 6.4 that 6.5 was based on and had most of the same functionality, but as a developer version it was never released. Although version 6.4 and 6.5 will read DMG images when the system is booted into OS 9, they can only do so if the image is not compressed.

Also included in the download links above is version 6.0

Other versions:
DiskCopy 4.2

Similar products:
Copy II Mac
DiskDup+
ShrinkWrap

Compatibility
Architecture: PPC

- DiskCopy 6.4 requires Mac OS 8.5.1 or later.

- DiskCopy 6.0 runs on Mac OS 7

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mathieudel's picture
by mathieudel - 2010, September 22 - 10:50am

Indeed, I've just gone to DiskCopy 6.3.3 download page and it says that 6.5b13 is included in the package... So I will not upload my own copy Big smile

It's quite frequent on the site that programs have several pages for different versions, some of those pages containing several versions aswell Tongue.
When the title of the page is, like here, 'Program_name vW.X & vY.Z' I think it's not a problem, but when it says 'Program_name vX.Y' then its quite annoying. Can't something be done to avoid this situation ?

mathieudel's picture
by mathieudel - 2010, September 22 - 10:18am

I don't know if it is of any interest, by I have a copy of the 6.5b13 version. I could upload it if you want...

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by MikeTomTom - 2010, September 22 - 7:02am

@Vitoarc:

6.4 was the odd app out, and this is an odd version

Have had a little peek at it. This Disk Copy should be classed as a "Disk Copy 4.x family" variant only. That is, it is a pure 68k app. Contains no PPC code. It cannot open or mount Disk Copy 6.1.x NDIF (New Disk Image Format) files, nor create/mount files from any source, such as folders or any file other than a floppy disk (it cannot mount these either).
It bears no resemblance to Disk Copy 6.1 or newer other than the version number contains a "6". It is basically the same as Disk Copy 4.2 in operation. Whether it does a better job than Disk Copy 4.2 or has any advantage over it, this would be hard to say at 1st glance.

Perhaps of interest was this directive from the Disk Copy 6.1.2 manual (the PDF I'll be putting in with the Disk Copy 6.3.3 Mac Garden Entry) This quote refers to a Disk Copy 6.0.1 which perhaps is a "0.1" version later than the Disk Copy you've just put up:

Remove any copies of Disk Image Mounter and Disk Copy 6.0.1
...To avoid problems working with disk images, it is important to remove all copies of both
Disk Image Mounter and Disk Copy 6.0.1 and rebuild your desktop after installing Disk Copy 6.1.2. If you have upgraded from Disk Copy 6.1, you may also want to rebuild your desktop; some of the icons in Disk Copy 6.1.2 have been revised . While Disk Copy 6.1.2 also features the functionality of Disk Copy 4.2 and Floppy Disk Maker, neither of these utilities will interfere with Disk Copy 6.1.2 and do not need to be removed.

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by Balrog - 2010, September 22 - 1:58am

DC 6.0 will be interesting for us to study, at least Smile

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by Vitoarc - 2010, September 22 - 1:46am

Mike Garden, the funny thing is, is that I almost didn't upload this because I just didn't know a good spot to put it. Then I figured that 6.4 was the odd app out, and this is an odd version, so I decided why not. Plus I know that anything and everything Apple is welcome on this site... but how much use DC 6.0 will be to anyone remains to be seen.

Oh and thanks for your new RISK upload. Smile

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by MikeTomTom - 2010, September 22 - 12:30am

@Vitoarc:

I acquired DiskCopy 6.0 from a 1995 University CD. Appearance wise, it looks just like DC 4.2

Damn, something else you've uploaded that looks interesting Wink
I've never seen version 6.x look so much like a vers. 4.x before.

Balrog's picture
by Balrog - 2010, September 21 - 11:40pm

@Vitoarc:

There's some info at http://db.tidbits.com/static/html/TidBITS-339.html . Basically it supports a compressed format and a self-contained format. I wonder if this compressed format is similar to DART ... probably not, though. Unlike Disk Copy 6.1, it does not use the resource fork for compression data.

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by Vitoarc - 2010, September 21 - 10:31pm

I acquired DiskCopy 6.0 from a 1995 University CD. Appearance wise, it looks just like DC 4.2 It will be interesting to note the difference between the two versions.