Macintosh Garden - Raymond Lau

DropStuff 3.5

IWishTodayWasStill2004 — Mon, 28 May 2012 14:14:50 +0000

Application file:

dropstuff_3.5.2.bin

DropStuff 3.5's main addition to StuffIt 3.0 was that, in Mac OS 7.1 or later, you can drag any amount of files and folders in the Finder onto the icon for DropStuff or an alias to it instead of having to use the standard dialog and DropStuff will create the archive with the files dropped onto it's icon. With the introduction of this feature, it was also the first version that was named "DropStuff".

Compatibility:

DropStuff will only run on Mac OS 7.0 or later because, for some reason, it HAS TO keep checking for AppleEvents regardless of whether the system software it is running on supports AppleEvents or not. However, the "Expander Enhancer" bundled with DropStuff that the equivalent version of StuffIt Expander can also expand .zip, .arc, .gzip, .z, .pkg, .uu, and StuffIt SpaceSaver archives with, for StuffIt Expander 3.5, will work on System Software 6.

Category:

Compression & Archiving

Author:

Raymond Lau

Leonard Rosenthol

Aladdin Systems

Year released:

1994

Publisher:

Aladdin Systems

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

App's manual:

dropstuff_readme.txt

expander_enhancer_readme.txt

StuffIt 1.5.1

MacinTricks — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:45:44 +0000

Application file:

stuffit_1.5.1.img

stuffit_1.5.1.pit_.bin

stuffit_1.5.1.sit_.bin

Utility for compressing and decompressing files. This is the final Raymond Lau shareware version before the title was acquired by Aladdin Systems Inc. Documentation and UnStuffIt 1.5 program are included.

Category:

Compression & Archiving

Author:

Raymond Lau

Year released:

1988

System:

System 1 - 5

System 6.x

Architecture:

68k

StuffIt Expander 5.5

MikeTomTom — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:13:09 +0000

Application file:

stuffit_expander_5.5.img

stuffit_expander_5.5.bin

stuffitexpander_5_5.zip

Out of all the Aladdin StuffIt products, StuffIt Expander is the only free one. StuffIt Expander 3.0, the first version, was a combination of BinHex 5.0's "Download -> Application", the original only StuffIt product that was free, the UnStuffIt application, and Compact Pro's "Desktop-Expand" feature. As soon as the first version of the all-in-one StuffIt Expander was released, it became a "must-have" for Macintosh users to use Macintosh files from BBS or Internet.

Compatibility:

StuffIt Expander 5.5 generally requires a Macintosh II or later running Mac OS 7.5 or later - it will refuse to install on Mac OS 7.1 or earlier, although it probably works if already installed when Mac OS 7.5 was used on even Mac OS 7.0, and will crash at launch on a Macintosh SE or earlier.

Category:

Compression & Archiving

Author:

Raymond Lau

Year released:

1999

Publisher:

Aladdin Systems

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Architecture:

68k

PPC

StuffIt Deluxe 1.5.x - 7.x

Balrog — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:39:38 +0000

Application file:

Almost from its inception in 1987, StuffIt became the standard tool for file compression on the Mac. By combining resource fork handling with compression, Raymond Lau gave Mac users a one-stop solution for archiving their files. Although StuffIt left its shareware roots after version 1.5.1, some form of StuffIt Expander has always been free and freely available.

Available DL's from the top down:

StuffIt/UnStuffIt 1.5.1 (68k only),
MD5 checksum & filename: 9f4a2506a1aab34ea6d98d5b2b0271a6 *stuffit-151.sit

Compatibility:

Version 1.5.1 - 4.x runs well within vMac and Mac OS 6 and 7.
Version 5.0 - 5.5.x runs on 68020 or newer CPU, SSW 7.1 or later.
Version 6.0.x runs on PowerPC CPUs only, Mac OS 8.1 or later.
Version 6.5.x requires Mac OS 8.6 or later.
Version 7.0.3 (Classic) requires Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.2

See Also: If seeking the PPC OS X native version of Stuffit Expander & DropStuff version 7.0.3, visit the "StuffIt Standard Edition 7.0.3" page. Its not the full Deluxe suite, but it can be used to compress and extract Stuffit archives on PPC OS X. It has installers for Classic, OS X and Windows PC's.

Category:

Compression & Archiving

Author:

Raymond Lau

Year released:

1999

Publisher:

Aladdin Systems

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6

Mac OS 9

Emulation:

SheepShaver (PPC)

Basilisk II (68k)

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

PPC