This page is a wiki. Please login or create an account to begin editing.
Home › Utilities



Fat Free v1.2.2

Game screenshot

Upload a screenshot or edit this page

Rating:
Your rating: None Average: 5 (3 votes)
Category:
Year released:
Author:
Publisher:
Download fat-free-122.sit (16.29 KB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Emulation
This app works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II, Mini vMac

This tiny utility application, is intended for 680x0 Mac users. It removes the PPC Data Fork of a FAT program's file, removing the PowerPC code & saving disk space (about 40% of the size of the fat application file). It removes the unused (& unrequired) PPC code from FAT Macintosh programs, if your FAT program is intended for use only on 68k Macintosh computers.

MD5sum & filename: 3fe13fbba3db23711c86b7938f3ad028 *fat-free-122.sit

I've found a use for this software where it wasn't intended to be used. - On PPC SheepShaver.

On SheepShaver, certain PPC native apps will not run (likely because of the lack of a native PPC MMU in SheepShaver). I have found that if there is a native 68k equivalent of the problematic PPC application, there is a good chance that the 68k equivalent will work OK on SheepShaver.

For example: Macromedia FreeHand 7, this version of FreeHand installs as a FAT binary. It also crashes SheepShaver badly and will not run well - if at all. I used Fat Free to remove its PPC code and now FreeHand 7 runs stable on my SheepShaver install - as a 68k app. - OK, its no longer a PPC app, but to me, this is preferable to not being able to run at all. YMMV.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

SSW 7.0 - 9.x - a native 68k app, runs fine on PPC.

Very basic operation:
Simply locate your program to "unfat" & click OK. It's fast & takes about 2 seconds for a large program to become PPC code free.
There's no user-feed-back for when its done "unfatting" an application - so don't wait around for "Fat Free" to tell you its finished. Count to "5" and you'll probably be safe Wink

Required:
Any Mac running SSW 7.0 or higher, with 16 KB free on Hard Disk and 50 KB of RAM to run. It won't run under Systems prior to SSW 7.0 - Increase the memory allocation for Fat Free if it fails with a "Not enough memory available" type error.

Note:
Only use this program on a copy of the application you intend to use for PPC data fork removal.