John G
I'm putting together a collection of Mac System 7 (and probably Windows 9x/DOS) stuff on a classic Mac-based FTP server.
This is to help me (and hopefully others) with the chicken-egg issue of trying to get old Mac software onto vintage machines without an existing Stuffit installation etc.
Later today I'll add a "start.img" floppy image you can write using DD and it should "just work"
It's at ftp.smthng.pw:5021 with login macftp, passwd system7rulez
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Dec 29, 2022 at 12:38pmWeb
Show threadJohn GDec 29, 2022
LOL I haven't added the port forward yet but it will be in place shortly (next 30 mins)
Show threadJohn GDec 29, 2022
OK so port forward is in place and everything you SHOULD need to get a vintage Mac (68k and early PowerPC, non-OSX) online is in Public/system7/1essentials. Grab the disk images and write them to floppies and you're good to go.
Feel free to explore the other folders too, everything in there is tested on my PB150.
NOTE! If you are using a modern Mac or a non-Mac system, be aware that files that aren't BinHexed (.hqx) may not play nicely on the old Mac.
Show threadEamonnMRDec 29, 2022
@cylon_jg this is really helpful, there's absolutely a chicken and egg issue with Stuffit.
Show threadJohn GDec 29, 2022
@EMR I haven’t put the disk images or StuffIt sea yet but they should be done this evening. The idea is that you can write 2 images to floppies if you don’t have anything at all, or grab just the files via ftp. Images will have StuffIt, fetch, macppp and some other bits.
Show threadvga256Dec 29, 2022
@cylon_jg I really appreciate this. ftp remains to be one of the only still-fully-compatible protocols with our elder machines of yore - and i've ran into the chicken-egg problem more times than i've wanted to count with my Macs!
Show threadJohn GDec 29, 2022
@vga256 No worries! Have a look around - I'll add more stuff as I find it and try to get everything BinHexed so it's non-Mac-friendly too.