Need help copying downloads from my iMac to my LC III via CD

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2011, May 20 - 4:49pm

dougal

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Need help copying downloads from my iMac to my LC III via CD

Hi, i'm new. Got my hands on an old LC III running System 7.1 with a scsi cd-rom drive.

I managed to copy stuffit expander 4 from a PC using a 1.44mb floppy disk and then copying it to the mac.

The thing is i want to play all those games on macintosh garden on my real LC III.

I try to burn a cd (tried using disk utitilty (in leopard), burn (in leopard) and imgburn on pc.

The cd is full of sit files downloaded from here. games etc..

The mac reads the cd and sees the files but when i try and open them using stuffit it does nothing.

I believe this is because the integrity or structure of the sit or hqx file might be damaged but i dont know and am a total noob to old macs.

The cd-rom drive works because i have no problem using an old mac cover disc from a magazine.

I tried burning the cd (its a CD-R) at the slowest speed and also tried a guide which said in osx to create a DMG and make sure it is MAC OS Standard (not expanded etc...) but still when i try and open the .sit files using stuffit i select the file and then thats it it does nothing after i hit expand.

The LC III has no network card and floppy is too small to copy games, so there must be a way to get these files on the mac using cdrom.

Pleasssee help. The LC III is pretty much useless with just System 7 and word installed. LOL

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2011, May 20 - 5:17pm

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.dmg is only readable by Mac OS X (unless you install Disk Copy 6.5 on the LC, also it is recommended to install Stuffit Expander version 5 minimum, because some of our files has been stuffed with this version (this version will work fine for Basilisk/SheepShaver stuff like your LC III)

2011, May 20 - 5:55pm

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This may be a bit off topic, but what about installing 7.6 ?
Very early versions of System7 missed the File System Manager and drivers for CD foreign file systems.
Many items on the Garden are deflated with Stuffit5 or 7, so upgrading might help. If you have the files in the Finder, but can´t inflate them, Stuffit4 is too old I suppose.

I moved some files as DiskCopy6 images on removables, but that again would require 7.5 or higher.

ImgBurn should work fine, at least it does for me. If you would like to set up an additional Mac emulator, you could even burn the emulators operating images with your files to disk as HFS with ImgBurn.
(There must be a "Create CD from Image" button or so) No need for Stuffit on the LC_III side then.

2011, May 20 - 5:53pm

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Very early versions of System7 missed the File System Manager and drivers for CD foreign file systems.

This is true. While playing around with Mini vMac (this is also off-topic, but slighty-topic in some kind), when running System 7.5, CD-ROM images will be mounted without any problems. Older versions of Mac OS will don't mount them unless specific driver software has been installed.

As the first post above implies, this seems to be true for real hardware, too.

2011, May 20 - 6:09pm

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dougal

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Great Thanks. I managed to run stuffit 5.1.2 . Is it normal to take ages unstuffing? im unstuffing leisure suit larry 6 LOL.

Also how do i go about upgrading? I believe 7.3 is free and its 19 disks but do i really have to copy 19 disks or is there an easier way and is 7.5 or 7.6 available for free?

2011, May 20 - 6:10pm

dougal

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If its any help my LC III has 36mb ram

2011, May 20 - 7:10pm

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I've uploaded the Mac OS 7.5.3 CD (I think it's made from the 19 floppies,) that was on the Pandora server to my Mediafire account. (7.5.3 is the free one you talking about.)

http://www.mediafire.com/?e3c3klg9n0v39

To burn a toast file (which is basically an iso file,) on Mac OS X, just mount it and burn it with Disk Utility.

2011, May 20 - 11:07pm

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Unstuffing can take ages on a LC III. Especially if high compression was used. As for using a CDROM drive, you may need to install the Apple CDROM software which puts in extensions for iso9660, audio etc. You can get it here.

Is the CDROM drive an Apple one? If not you won't be able to boot a Mac OS install CD from it, but you could still upgrade the existing version.

2011, May 21 - 7:15am

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dougal

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Thanks.. I downloaded it. will have a go installing it.

2011, May 21 - 7:16am

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dougal

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Great. Yes the CD-ROM is Apple.

2011, May 21 - 1:51pm

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Installed 7.5.3 and working great Thanks!!