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Installing software onto your emulator
Once you download software off of the Macintosh Garden, you may have trouble getting it into your emulator of choice. Here are the steps you need to take. If you need more help, or if something here isn't clear enough, try the forums, or you could browse around on this website for some more detailed instructions: http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php
Mini vMac
(a) The software will probably be commpressed. Use the decompression utility of your choice to expand it. If the utility is in the emulator, skip to (c).
(b) If the software came in a disk image, try dragging it onto a Mini vMac window (the emulated computer should be started up and running a version of the system). If Mini vMac says the disk must be initialized, it is probably compressed. In Mac OS X you can open the image in Disk Utility and click the "convert" button. Select "read only" from the menu. This image should now work in Mini vMac. Alternate procedures could be to try extracting the files from it with another emulator or seperate piece of software. The Disk Copy utility may help.
(c) If the software came by itself without an image, or if you need to put a compressed archive into the emulator, you must place the file into a Mini vMac-formatted disk image (Mac OS X Leopard and earlier, some utilities, and other emulators can do this) and drag the disk image onto Mini vMac the same way as in step (b).
Basilisk II and SheepShaver
You can almost always put the file into the shared folder. Do not run programs or extract archives from within the shared folder, move it to your emulated hard drive beforehand. The shared drives primary use is for moving files between the emulated hard drive and the host hard drive.
Disk images can be opened in Disk Copy. If this fails, try adding the disk image to the drives list in Basilisk II GUI or SheepShaver preferences. Or, download directly inside the emulator.
Comments
You lost me after "commandline app" but it's ok. =) I'll just run it under a different emulator. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it!
@FlatRound: Many of the available Stuffit archives have been compressed with later versions of Stuffit, which unfortunately do not run on Mini vMac (and therefore incompatible with Stuffit Expander 4). If you want to decompress these files on an emulator you would require an emulator that can run Stuffit Expander 5.5, at least. This means setting up either Basilisk II or SheepShaver (or the experimental '020 Mac II version of Mini vMac) and be running the Mac OS, SSW 7.1 at a minimum.
Alternatively (if a .sit archive contains disk images), you can decompress archives on your host OS, Which, if your host OS is Mac OS X then you should use Stuffit Expander or "The Unarchiver". If you run an other than OS X host OS, then you can still use The Unarchiver, in the form of a commandline app, named unar. Also available via the above link under the "Command Line Tools" tab on page.
Once you've extracted an archive on the host OS you can drag an extracted disk image into the running Mini vMac window and it will mount as a disk on the desktop. There may be a few hiccups doing it this way, for example, if your emulated OS is SSW 6.0.8 or earlier and the image was formatted in SSW 7.x, it may need to rebuild the desktop on the image in order to mount it, but nothing insurmountable or too difficult to sort out..
I'm using Stuffit 4.0.1
I was following the directions on Emaculation, here:
http://emaculation.com/doku.php/mini_vmac_setup
Should I still switch to one of the other emulators or did I miss a step?
You might need to set up Basilisk or SheepShaver in order to unstuff them with Expander 5.5.
Hi guys. REALLY love this website. You guys have a TON of games I played in my youth on our old Fat Mac and Centris 610. Games for which I've been pining for a long time. I've installed and set up Mini vMac, set up system 6 and I can get games to run as long as they're a .dsk file. But I'm having a really hard time running games that are still compressed, like .sit files. I followed the steps posted above and tried to expand the files in the emulation but when I open Stuffit and look through the files to expand, the archived files don't show up. Clearly I'm doing something wrong but I'm stumped as to what. It's been a LONG time since I used a Mac, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks guys, keep up the good work!
@wayek: Some members here may lend a hand for converting stuff to dsk or img.
I would suggest to start a new topic naming the files you are thinking of and the type of compression you would like to see.
Naked images sometimes do not survive the passage on the net.
I can't get any of the games from here to work AT ALL .. is there any way to get them uploaded as actual DSK files? it would save an incredible ammount of frustration
Never, ever, never decompress/open/unstuff an archive containing applications anywhere else than it is supposed to be run. Windows et al effectively kills all functionality of almost any executable file due to it´s incapability of handling the Resource Fork of Classic Mac files, such as the ones that comes from this site.
1st – copy the archive/encoded archive onto the disk image with the help of TransMac/HFSExplorer/etc
2nd – decompress/unarchive the archive under emulation, in your case MinivMac. This way you´ll have a fully functional copy of the content in the archive, at least if were ok when archived.
HTH!
hey watchsmart, i very interested in your notes on how to get stuff into mini vmac using windows. i'm having a bitch of a time .sit files from this site that aren't dsk/imgs. i can't seem to get the file descriptors right after unpacking with stuffit 7.1 (windows). other versions either don't work or kick out text files/incomplete data.
any help would be great... been going around in circles for days (transmac, hfvexplorer, emulating other macs to unstuff, etc). thanks a lot for reading this.
Probably it was an old version at the time when I discovered this mistake (mostly used this port at this time), now using your 1.0.20091004 version, but not tested this feature again (yet).
IGS User,
Are you using an old version of Basilisk II/SheepShaver perhaps? A bug that caused problems like that was worked out in the most recent versions (2009).
I got some problems putting the files into the 'shared folder' (Unix root) functionality, being lost of the resource fork of the files. Even on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Yes, this is good stuff. Thanks for writing it. I hope you can make a link to it in the "guides" section if you haven't already. Otherwise it is just sort of orphaned.
I wrote a few notes about getting things into Mini vMac for Windows in the forum. Maybe you can adapt those for this page, if you think it would help.