Macintosh Garden - FWB Software Inc

FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 2.5.3

IIGS_User — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:59:10 +0000

Application file:

hard_disk_toolkit_25_pe.cdr_.sit

This is a OEM version of Hard Disk ToolKit•PE 2.5.3, compatible with Mac OS versions up to 8.5 (including HFS+ support).

This CD-ROM includes Acrobat Reader 3.0 for Mac OS.

This is a PC/Mac hybrid CD-ROM. The PC partition contains "The Drive Toolkit Express Setup", which has been created for Windows 95. Acrobat Reader 2.1 for Windows 3.1/95 is also included.

Compatibility:

System requirements Mac:
Hard Disk ToolKit•Personal Edition software is fully compatible with all Power Macintoshes and most Macintoshes. To use Hard Disk ToolKit•PE, you will need the following hardware and system software:
• any model of Power Macintosh/Macintosh with at least a 68030 processor
Macs with 68000 or 68020 microprocessors are not supported. These include the Mac Plus, Mac Portable, Mac SE, Mac Classic, Mac Color Classic, Mac LC, Mac II, and PowerBook 100.
• at least 4 MB of free RAM
If additional RAM is available, Hard Disk ToolKit•Personal Edition may automatically utilize some of it.
• a SCSI or IDE disk storage device • Mac OS version 7.5.3 or later (we’re Mac OS 8 compatible!)

Category:

Utilities

Year released:

1998

Publisher:

FWB Software Inc

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Architecture:

68k

SoftWindows 98

TataMisia — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:17:18 +0000

Application file:

SoftWindows_98_Install.img_.sit

SoftWindowstm_98_Install_CD.sit

WIN98DATA.toast_.sit

softwindows_update509.sea_.hqx

SoftWindows 98 emulates a Pentium MMX PC, allowing you to run Windows applications and games alongside your existing Macintosh applications.

It will perform all the tasks you would expect from a PC. The faster your Macintosh, the faster the performance of SoftWindows 98. SoftWindows 98 has Windows 98 pre-installed, so you can immediately run Windows applications on your Macintosh.

Compatibility:

Any Power Macintosh, including G3, PowerBook and iMac.
System System 7.1.2 or later.
32 MB RAM recommended (give 80+ MB if you can spare it).
Hard disk space 300 MB
Any Macintosh compatible CD-ROM drive.
[Important]: OS 9 compatibility only with the 5.0.9 update.

Category:

Emulators

Author:

Insignia Solutions

Year released:

1998

Publisher:

FWB Software Inc

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

PPC

App's manual:

SoftWindows_User_Guide.pdf

RealPC 1.1

MCP — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:47:45 +0000

Application file:

real-pc-11.zip

realpc_1_0_5.zip

"RealPC emulates an Intel Pentium MMX based PC or compatible, allowing you to run PC games and programs, including MS-DOS, Windows 3 and Windows 95 games and applications, alongside your existing Macintosh applications."

MD5 checksum: 1fc2a39cd227b8d5a4f1c69216a2d4b9 *real-pc-11.zip

The major difference with this version of RealPC, is version 1.1 shipped with IBM's "PC DOS 7.0", dropping MS DOS 6.2.2 from the installed drive file. You can still install MS DOS & Windows 3.1 & 95, only you must provide these yourself.

Compatibility:

Requires PPC and Mac OS 7.1.2 or later. Partially worked in SheepShaver.

RealPC 1.1 requires real Mac PPC hardware. In SheepShaver it trys to run but gets too many errors to be considered useable. It does however run very well in "Classic" on a PPC OS X system, 10.4.11 or earlier.

Category:

Emulators

Author:

Insignia Solutions

Year released:

1997

Publisher:

FWB Software Inc

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

PPC

App's manual:

realpcuserguide.pdf

FWB Toolkits [Hard Disk Toolkit v1.7 + v2.0.6, RAID Toolkit 1.8]

soudesune — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:15:43 +0000

Application file:

hdt_raid__jackhammer.sit

hard_disk_toolkita_2.sit

hard_disk_toolkit_2.0.6.sit

The first download are the 5 installer disks that came with the FWB RAID Toolkit. There is the RAID Toolkit v1.8, FWB Hard Disk Toolkit v1.7 and the FWB Jackhammer driver disk.

The second download contains the contents of the FWB Hard Disk Toolkit v2.0.6 that I found on my PPC. It runs under Mac OS 7.6 on my IIfx but I have not tested it on it extensively.

[I would like one page to consolidate all of the various versions of all the various Toolkit software packages made by FWB. I'm not sure if it is feasible though. See below for other links on this site to FWB Toolkit software.]

Compatibility:

RAID Toolkit: System 6.0.7 onwards (Mac OS 7.1 recommended)
HDT Toolkit: likewise, although I haven't tested it yet on System 6.

Category:

Utilities

Year released:

1994

Publisher:

FWB Software Inc

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

68k

x86 (Intel)

FWB Hard Disk Toolkit PE v1.6 + v1.6.3 update

MikeTomTom — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:37:11 +0000

Application file:

fwb-hd-tk-16.sit

FWB Hard Disk Toolkit Personal Edition v1.6, plus v1.6.3 updater. Software drivers for most Macintosh SCSI disk drives, especially useful for Mac SCSI drives prior to Mac OS 8.1

Download link now working. Thanks.
MD5 Checksum: d804cefdf314e70f89b796f71a346940 *fwb-hd-tk-16.sit

Original media in Disk Copy 4.2 archive and compressed with Stuffit 3.5 for backwards compatibility. Screenshots are from my v1.5 media, although the v1.6 media was archived before I lost the original disks... the 1.5 disks survived. The SN in pic 2 above should also work with v1.6

Compatibility:

I strongly recommend not using this software on Mac OS 8.1 or later and HFS+ drives.

Not useful for emulators except for Lauri Pesonen's Windows port of Basilisk II and physical SCSI hard drives on the Windows box.

Category:

Utilities

Author:

FWB Software Inc

Year released:

1994

Publisher:

FWB Software Inc

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Architecture:

68k

PPC

App's manual:

FWB HTD v1.6 Release Notes

FWB CD-ROM ToolKit v3.0.2d

OSX2000 — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:08:36 +0000

Application file:

cdromtoolkit3.img_.sit

The download is a Disk Copy 4.2 floppy image, compressed with Stuffit 5.5.

CD-ROM ToolKit provides a high-performance CD-ROM device driver that enables your
system to see and communicate with your CD-ROM drives and mount a wide variety of
CD formats to your Desktop. CDT’s device driver gives you access to all the most popular
CD formats.

Enhancements to CD-ROM ToolKit 3.0.2 from earlier versions

• Fixes an incompatibility that arose with CDT/040 processors/Mac OS 8.X
• On HFS Plus volumes disk and RAM cache are automatically turned off (see below)

Compatibility:

Tested, and runs on 68k and PPC hardware. This serves no purpose in emulators.

Category:

Utilities

Author:

FWB Software Inc

Year released:

1999

Publisher:

FWB Software Inc

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

68k

PPC

CD-ROM Toolkit 1.56 and 1.65H

gim — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:09:28 +0000

Application file:

cdrom_toolkit.dmg

cdrom_toolkit.img_.sit

The dmg originally posted here actually contained versions 1.56 and 1.65H. I've extracted them and created a Stuffit archive containing both folders. Get it here.

Serial: M03539528

Category:

Utilities

Author:

FWB Software Inc

Year released:

1995

Architecture:

68k

FWB CD-ROM ToolKit v4.0 (CDT)

Strimkind — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:45:16 +0000

Application file:

cdttm_4.0_installer.sit

For Power PC. This is handy with older burners and the classic mac. Besides other features, the disk caching benefits slower-speed CD-ROM drives.

S/N: FB401001023

What Does CD-ROM ToolKit Do?

• Kodak Photo CD™
• Macintosh HFS

Compatibility:

CD-ROM ToolKit 4.0 requires the following hardware and system software:
• Power Macintosh
• a SCSI or ATAPI CD-ROM drive
• System 8.1 or better
• eight megabytes of RAM or greater, more is helpful
• one to three megabytes of free, contiguous hard disk space for disk
caching, more is helpful

Category:

Utilities

Year released:

1999

Publisher:

FWB Software Inc

System:

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

PPC

FWB Hard Disk ToolKit 4.5.2

Zyxel615 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:16:58 +0000

Application file:

hdt452.sit

FWBHDT452CD.ZIP

First download contains the utility only while the second download contains the installer, extras and a bootable Mac OS 8.5.1 volume.

This utility, for Power PC native only, is for formatting hard drives into partitions greater than 4 GB. There are many options to modify volumes "on the fly" without having to reinitialize your entire drive.

Note: Third party (FWB) drivers will be installed and the Apple Drivers will no longer be used for OS 8 & OS 9.

- Once HDT is installed, you set everything up (partitions etc) by launching HDT from the installed application.

Category:

Utilities

Author:

FWB Software Inc

Year released:

2001

Publisher:

FWB Software Inc

System:

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

PPC