![]() If you find these downloads useful, please consider helping the Gryphel Project,which hosts them. ![]() It seems to work in the current (incomplete)Mini vMac Macintosh II emulation. Version 5.5 is the last that will run on Macintosh 680x0.It requires Color QuickDraw, and so doesn't work ona Mac Plus. Theinstaller for version 5.0 insists that8M of RAM is required. Version 4.5 seems to work on a Macintosh Plus(for System 7), except that the about windows arepartly offscreen, and not movable. Stuffit_expander_55.bin(827K) Stuffit Expander 5.5 in the original format. Stuffit_expander_45.bin(500K) Stuffit Expander 4.5 in the original format. In System 7, you can drag any file onto the Stuffit Expanderapplication icon, regardless of file type. (Makesure to hold down the command key before pressing themouse button.) (That is the emulated “command key”.When running Mini vMac on Windows, for example, this normally meanspressing the “Alt” key. ![]() So to expand a file,put it in a new folder, and expand that folder. But if you hold down the command keybefore selecting "Expand" from the "File" menu,Stuffit Expander will offer to expand all the contentsof a folder, regardless of file type. The issue in System 6 is thatStuffit Expander will only offer to expand files withthe correct Macintosh file type, and files oftendon't have that type. Stuffit Expander 4.0.1 works better in System 7, but stillcan be used in System 6. Stuffit_expander_40.bin(205K) Stuffit Expander 4.0.1 in the original format.ĭecodes StuffIt and CompactPro archives,BinHex, and MacBinary.Requires System 6.0.5 or later.Smith Micro Software continues to develop Stuffit Expander for OS X.( Stuffit Expander on Wikipedia)Įxpander Enhancer, that comes with DropStuff,allows Stuffit Expanderto decode many additionalarchive kinds. Stuffit_expander_40.zip(201K) Stuffit Expander 4.0.1 repackaged into a zipped hfs disk image and checksum file.The disk image can be mounted with Mini vMac. ![]() Disk Copy 4.2, MacBinary and BinHex are a fair bit better for bridging the Windows world. I believe you can find MacBinary II if you want to shuffle files that way between an emulator on Windows and a compact Mac.Stuffit Expander hosted by the Gryphel Project Long story short, StuffIt is terrible for compact Macs unless you're trying to take a large file and spread it out across multiple floppy disks as a Stuffit self-extracting archive, which was kind of its niche back when StuffIt was popular in the Mac II era through the 90s. Those two are a fair bit faster to decompress because they're essentially solutions to preserve the resource fork across file systems and encodings that would otherwise strip that metadata (in a sense) away. If we want to be period specific, there were several other formats like MacBinary, and BinHex which were what were really used to send Mac files across the Mac unfriendly skies. Addressing this a bit more on the nose, StuffIt 5 (1998) was when the format changed a fair bit, and most files you'll find on the internet that are ".sit" files are probably StuffIt 5 files.īefore then, StuffIt files were dependent on resource forks that weren't particularly friendly to non-Mac file systems.
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