Hey everyone,
up until now I used my TiBook with 9.2.2 and StuffIt to create .sit files of toast images I made before uploading them here to the garden. I noticed I have some images on my disc left that have been lost or not yet shared, but I wonder how to create .sit files on 10.6 that one can actually unpack on the classic Mac OS?
Any software recommendations?
In Stuffit 15 (and maybe 14) there is a legacy option. The resulting file can be unpacked with Stuffit7, but not with Stuffit3.6. Will that do?
I am able to create .sit files in Mac OS X 10.6.8 with StuffIt Deluxe 10.0. I am able to un-stuff them using StuffIt Deluxe 5.5 in Mac OS 7-9, 68k or PPC.
Thanks you guys. Trying my luck with StuffIt 10 now. Just want to make sure people will be able to unpack these images directly on their classic machines.
Thank you for striving for backwards compatibility. Stuffit 5.5 at least can run on a wide range of old Macintosh & emulators. Although Mini vMac & 68000 Macs won't be able to access v5.5 compatible .sit archives, '020 and above Macs/emus running SSW 7.1.x will.
I don't know if it adds any advantages over version 10.xx, but I use Stuffit 7.0.3 on Snow Leopard for my backwards compatibility .sit archiving needs
Thanks for it input guys. Do we have Stuffit 7.0.3 (OS X) up on the site? I could only locate the classic version ...
I think its included in the Stuffit Deluxe 7.0.3 page (page say's for Mac OS 8 - Mac OS X).
However. There is no advantage to using version 7.x on OS X, for ".sit" archives over newer versions of Stuffit. That is, the Stuffit ".sit" standard became frozen with the introduction of version 7 and remains "Stuffit version 5.5 compatible", as do all subsequent releases of Stuffit capable of saving to ".sit, fast compression". Version 7.x's ".sit" can't be extracted with an earlier than version 5.5 Stuffit.
My Stuffit compression preference on native PPC OS X is for version 8, which I find stable, like version 5.5 is on classic Mac OS. But on Intel Macintosh, how do earlier PPC OS X versions of Stuffit (like v7 & v8) hold up under SL's Rosetta? I can't see the point; Unless I'm misinterpreting things and you're wanting an earlier Stuffit to use on PPC OS X. In which case I recommend version 8.
Thanks MikeTomTom,
unfortunately the info on our Stuffit Deluxe page is wrong. It's a classic only application. Made a screenshot: http://tinypic.com/r/11udtns/8
Actually I'm just looking for a version that will do fine on 10.6 and create .sit files that people can open on their classic machines. Whether I can achieve that with version 7, 8 or 10 - all the same to me. 
I could've sworn I DL'd an OS X version of Stuffit from here about a week or so back...
Yes! Its located on the "Stuffit Standard Edition 7.0.3" page. It contains installers of version 7 for classic, OS X & Ms Windows.
A 20MB DL. This makes it the 3rd Stuffit 7 I know of here at the Garden, 2 Deluxe versions for classic only and this Standard version. I think a Garden tidy-up is required 
by the way, the OS X version of 7.0.3 has always worked just fine for me with Rosetta in Snow Leopard - the only issue I recall was perhaps with the "Quick Menu"/menubar thingy - mind you the ONLY thing I use it for is creating .sit files with DropStuff; I've never tinkered with the full functionality of the other features -then again, why would I?
