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Installing software onto your emulator
Once you download software off of the Macintosh Garden, you may have trouble getting it into your emulator of choice. Here are the steps you need to take. If you need more help, or if something here isn't clear enough, try the forums, or you could browse around on this website for some more detailed instructions: http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php
Mini vMac
(a) The software will probably be commpressed. Use the decompression utility of your choice to expand it. If the utility is in the emulator, skip to (c).
(b) If the software came in a disk image, try dragging it onto a Mini vMac window (the emulated computer should be started up and running a version of the system). If Mini vMac says the disk must be initialized, it is probably compressed. In Mac OS X you can open the image in Disk Utility and click the "convert" button. Select "read only" from the menu. This image should now work in Mini vMac. Alternate procedures could be to try extracting the files from it with another emulator or seperate piece of software. The Disk Copy utility may help.
(c) If the software came by itself without an image, or if you need to put a compressed archive into the emulator, you must place the file into a Mini vMac-formatted disk image (Mac OS X Leopard and earlier, some utilities, and other emulators can do this) and drag the disk image onto Mini vMac the same way as in step (b).
Basilisk II and SheepShaver
You can almost always put the file into the shared folder. Do not run programs or extract archives from within the shared folder, move it to your emulated hard drive beforehand. The shared drives primary use is for moving files between the emulated hard drive and the host hard drive.
Disk images can be opened in Disk Copy. If this fails, try adding the disk image to the drives list in Basilisk II GUI or SheepShaver preferences. Or, download directly inside the emulator.
Comments
Probably it was an old version at the time when I discovered this mistake (mostly used this port at this time), now using your 1.0.20091004 version, but not tested this feature again (yet).
IGS User,
Are you using an old version of Basilisk II/SheepShaver perhaps? A bug that caused problems like that was worked out in the most recent versions (2009).
I got some problems putting the files into the 'shared folder' (Unix root) functionality, being lost of the resource fork of the files. Even on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Yes, this is good stuff. Thanks for writing it. I hope you can make a link to it in the "guides" section if you haven't already. Otherwise it is just sort of orphaned.
I wrote a few notes about getting things into Mini vMac for Windows in the forum. Maybe you can adapt those for this page, if you think it would help.