Transferring software to a Mac Classic II

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2015, February 14 - 7:58pm

thefcpguy

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Transferring software to a Mac Classic II

I have a Mac Classic II running System 7.5.5 with a CD-ROM drive. Ideally I'd like to get Stuffit Expander on the system to decompress .sit files, but whenever I try to transfer that app from a modern Mac to the Classic it's mistakenly recognized as a text file if I burn a CD* or a PC Exchange document if I copy it to a floppy (the modern Mac doesn't do Mac OS Standard, so the floppy is formatted as MS-DOS).

Any advice is greatly welcome. Thank you!

Bill

*you can burn a Mac OS Standard CD from a modern Mac using the Burn app from SourceForge.

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2015, February 14 - 9:21pm

MikeTomTom

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Use Mini vMac, or Mac emulator of choice to act as an intermediary to copy Mac files to a Mac formatted floppy disk image then write the image back to floppy (assuming here that you have a USB floppy drive) using dd from the Terminal. See this Emaculation walk thru here (thanks to 24bit).

2015, February 18 - 4:25am

MikeTomTom

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I have a Mac Classic II running System 7.5.5 with a CD-ROM drive

Just noticed you have a CD-ROM drive for the Classic II.

Its easy to transfer files from a modern Mac OS to the CII (easier than the dd floppy method) when you have a CD drive available.

Still requires a Mac Emulator running on a host computer.

Requirements:
Macintosh emulator; Basilisk II, Mini vMac, Sheepshaver, etc.
System Software 7.1 or later
Disk Copy 6.1.2 or newer (usually 6.3.3)
Mac files you want for your classic Mac.

Method:
Under emulation, place files intended for the classic Mac into a folder
When done, start Disk Copy 6x
Drag folder of files onto Disk Copy's icon or into its running window
Click "Format" and choose "Read/Write"
Click "Size" and choose the next listed size - this could be 10MB, 40MB, 320MB etc. Or you might want to copy a CD ROM sized amount. Anyway, choosing "Read/Write" + any of the given listed sizes, creates an ISO compatible disk image once saved (and if the files in your folder add up to less than 10MB, then choosing 10MB is fine).
Give the intended image file a name and change the suffix ending from ".img" to ".iso"
Save the file and unmount it from the desktop.
Copy your new ".iso" to your host computer and burn it to CD using your usual burning methods. - Basilisk II & Sheepshaver can have a shared host/client folder enabled so you can easily copy files between the two.
You might also want to lock the ".iso" image prior to burning to prevent the host computer from further writing to it.