StuffIt Deluxe 1.5.x - 7.x

I have uploaded zipped toast images from the Old Mac Archive which are suitable for bootstrapping an emulator.

The preexisting .sit files are not useful unless you already have copy of Stuffit Expander or Deluxe. A chicken & egg problem.

I have had to be very careful about this. Stuffit Deluxe 7 is quite independent. The installer of Stuffit 5, however, overwrites older Stuffit Engines, kicks out things that are necessary for Stuffit 4, and the like.

I have DropStuff 3.5, StuffIt Expander 4.0, and StuffIt Expander/DropStuff 5.5 installed in my system disk image which I use with multiple emulators. Before I installed DropStuff 5.5, I used HFVExplorer to rename the "StuffIt Engine" which is part of DropStuff 3.5 to "StuffIt Engine 3.5" (not the Finder to rename it because this "StuffIt Engine" is installed "name-locked", preventing renaming of it in the Finder), and when I want to use DropStuff 3.5, I rename the "StuffIt Engine" and "StuffIt Engine PowerPlug" which are part of DropStuff 5.5 to "StuffIt Engine 5.5" and "StuffIt Engine 5.5 PowerPlug" and rename "StuffIt Engine 3.5" to "StuffIt Engine"

Why is StuffIt Expander 5.5 here in StuffIt format when it could have been available in formats meant for people who really need it (and now is at http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/stuffit-expander-55 in RAW 1.4MB HFS disk image and MacBinary I formats)?

That true, xy.

Compatibility of StuffIt versions prior to 7.0:
StuffIt/UnStuffIt/Classic 1.x: 68000-68020 with System 4.0-7.5.5.
StuffIt Deluxe/Lite/Expander/SpaceSaver 3.0.x: 68000-68030 with System 6.0-7.5.5.
StuffIt Deluxe/Lite/Expander/SpaceSaver 3.5.x: 68000-68040 with System 6.0.5-7.6.1.
StuffIt Deluxe/Expander/DropStuff/SpaceSaver 4.0.x: 68000-68040 or PowerPC Macintosh with System 6.0.7-8.6.
StuffIt Deluxe/Expander/DropStuff/SpaceSaver 4.5: 68000-68040 or PowerPC Macintosh with Mac OS 7.0-9.0.4.
StuffIt Deluxe/Expander/DropStuff/SpaceSaver 5.x.x: 68020-68040 or PowerPC Macintosh with Mac OS 7.1-9.1.
StuffIt Deluxe/Expander/DropStuff/SpaceSaver 5.5.x: 68030-68040 or PowerPC Macintosh with Mac OS 7.1.1-9.2.2.
StuffIt Deluxe/Expander/DropStuff/SpaceSaver 6.0.x: 68040 or PowerPC 601/603/604/G3/G4 Macintosh with System 8.1-10.1.
StuffIt Deluxe/Expander/DropStuff/SpaceSaver 6.5.x: PowerPC 603/604/G3/G4 Macintosh with System 8.6-10.2.

Edit: Replaced 'xxx7' with 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User

Here are definitions of a couple of words I would like people to think about before uploading to the site:

Quantity-- an indefinite amount or number
Quality-- a peculiar and essential character, a degree of excellence, a superiority in kind

Found old links for Stuffit 1.5.x. These are binhex so if you're using a Mozilla-based browser, right-click on the links to avoid corruption.

http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/macintosh/stuffit-151.hqx
http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/macintosh/stuffit-15-utilities.hqx
http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/macintosh/unstuffit-15.hqx
http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/macintosh/stuffit-15-doc.hqx

Tested with Disinfectant.

Can someone Disinfect Stuffit 1.5.1 (use Disinfectant) and reupload? Thanks! The nVir A virus probably won't become abandonware -- even its source code is available.

MCP, thanks for that input. I did a Finder search and removed everything Stuffit 5x before installing my own personal copy of SD 3.5. However I didn't search for hidden files in the System Folder. I'll take a look.

I tend to just use the DropStuff apps that come bundled with MacOS.

Wow, the Stuffit program stored in a stuffit archive! Isn't that genius!

I remember my first Stuffit upload which was wrapped into a .cdr.zip file. But by other uploaders this file has been removed in the meanwhile, for some reasons.

www.mediafire.com/oldmacarchive

Look in the Essentials folder, there's lots of download options there. And don't be too harsh on what's available on the Mac Garden; there are many different users with different needs.

I posted the link after his/her post.

No peers :/. Can someone help?

I just tried installing Stuffit Deluxe 5 (in the 5.1.5 image) on OS 8.1 in Basilisk II. The installer wouldn't accept the serial number when I copied and pasted it.

I added in StuffIt 1.5.1, as it's sort of a milestone in StuffIt history. I did not BIN the new archive, I'm not sure why it was like that.

I've added to the archive that 5.5 version that was uploaded separately, as well as a 5.5.1 updater I found.

Here are all the comments from the old page. Couldn't find a good way to preserve them exactly.

by Balrog - Wed, 04/29/2009 - 13:28
I believe Toast 5 can handle .iso format. I'm not totally sure though.
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by Attila - Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:57
Sorry I should be more specific. I mean the .cdr / .iso format. I'll have to monkey with it when I go home later. I know what works for old macs, I'm just wondering if there's something easier for both old macs and newer pc's/macs. If OS 9 could read that .iso format...
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by IIGS_User - Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:47
Your upload is OK for your 10.2.8 system, I think. It worked also with my G4/10.4.11.
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by Attila - Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:45
I have OS 10.2.8 on my G3 iMac; is this a format I can make or recognize with that? I barely use OSX, so it's all new to me. I'm all for making things easy for everybody with newer computers, just so long as I can use the old ones, too. Looking at Wikipedia about it now...
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by IIGS_User - Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:37
Thanks, Attila, a very good collection of old Stuffit applications, arranged to be used in the well-known Macintosh emulators (Mini-vMac, Basilisk and SheepShaver).
About the .cdr format, how to unstuff the files without having Stuffit Expander handy on local hard disk (even on host or emulated system)? That was the reason I've upload it as .cdr before.
If the "multiple versions of a game download" comes up here, I will re-arrange an optional .cdr image again, preformatted to be used in emulators.
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by Attila - Mon, 04/27/2009 - 11:34
My thoughts exactly, though I'm not sure about the .cdr extension. I don't use the emulators...I only have old macs! I made it all into a Disk Copy image; hopefully that will work easily enough. Anyway here's StuffIt Deluxe 4.0 with serial, 5.0 with serial and updaters, and DropStuff/Expander 5.5, and they use the serials from 5.0.
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by IIGS_User - Sun, 04/26/2009 - 02:18
Full version would be great, with this download I feel disturbed about the Shareware window that pops up every time I want to DropStuff something.
If you could, please put together full versions of Stuffit Expander/DropStuff 5.5 into one zipped .cdr file (most Stuffit Expander downloads needs to be unstuffed with another Stuffit Expander version first, this game entry prevents that).
Because 5.5 runs on Mac OS 7.1.1 or newer only, we could also need another application entry with full version of 4.0 (if possible) or so which runs in System 6.
In the meanwhile, I found a Stuffit Installer for 4.0 (Expander/DropStuff) and DropStuff 5.5 (which I requested before), but they are all unregistered.
Ironically, I found the english DropStuff 5.5 inside my SheepShaver installation, but it's still unregistered.
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by Attila - Sat, 04/25/2009 - 14:41
I've got a load of StuffIt stuff, including full versions. Probably some not abandonware, though. I'll see what I can upload this week.
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by IIGS_User - Sat, 04/25/2009 - 13:10
Anyone have DropStuff 5.5 in english handy? I found a german version somewhere, but no english version, and all download links I found are dead or are linking to SmithMicro, where older versions than 7.0 has been removed.
http://galileo.asd20.org/downloads/ilister.php?type=mac
That needs 5.5, because 6.0 or newer versions of Stuffit are PowerPC only, which will not run in Basilisk.
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by IIGS_User - Sun, 04/12/2009 - 05:06
When uploading files stuffed with this version of Dropstuff, sometimes the upload will canceled with the msg "The selected file Your_File_Name.sit could not be uploaded. The file contents (application/octet-stream) do not match its extension (sit).", or will take too long time without any responses.

Edit: Replaced 'xxx7' with 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User