Dear All,
I am sure the topic is thoroughly covered, but honestly I couldn’t find a single reliable source of information, so I decided to start a new thread.
Topic: how to download legacy software from web archives (such as the Macintosh Garden) and effectively deploy it on target 68k machines.
Practical example:
Target Mac: Mac Portable (with FD drive, plus various SCSI devices, including MO Drive, CD ROM, HD, plus AppleTalk)
Bridge Mac: SE/30 (with network card and various SCSI devices)
Source Mac: MacPro Monterey + MacFUSE for HFS, with CD/DVD recorder and MO unit
So, moving data from the MacPro to the Portable can be done in many ways. The problem I have, though, is that some 50% of the archives that land on the target Mac after at least one intermediate step is somehow corrupted, unreadable, not mountable, not expandable, not recognized etc.
And you will only find out at the end of the process.
I am never able to understand if the downloaded archive is itself corrupted, if the transfer via FTP or whatever is affecting the integrity of the archive or if the tools I use for expanding the archives are not appropriate (btw, every time I see a .zip archive of 68k sw my heart misses a beat…). So I just go back to another archive, download again, just for eventually finding out that is not working, either.
Which best practice do you use and recommend for reliable compressed data download, transfer, expansion and utilization?
I am sure the topic is thoroughly covered, but honestly I couldn’t find a single reliable source of information, so I decided to start a new thread.
Topic: how to download legacy software from web archives (such as the Macintosh Garden) and effectively deploy it on target 68k machines.
Practical example:
Target Mac: Mac Portable (with FD drive, plus various SCSI devices, including MO Drive, CD ROM, HD, plus AppleTalk)
Bridge Mac: SE/30 (with network card and various SCSI devices)
Source Mac: MacPro Monterey + MacFUSE for HFS, with CD/DVD recorder and MO unit
So, moving data from the MacPro to the Portable can be done in many ways. The problem I have, though, is that some 50% of the archives that land on the target Mac after at least one intermediate step is somehow corrupted, unreadable, not mountable, not expandable, not recognized etc.
And you will only find out at the end of the process.
I am never able to understand if the downloaded archive is itself corrupted, if the transfer via FTP or whatever is affecting the integrity of the archive or if the tools I use for expanding the archives are not appropriate (btw, every time I see a .zip archive of 68k sw my heart misses a beat…). So I just go back to another archive, download again, just for eventually finding out that is not working, either.
Which best practice do you use and recommend for reliable compressed data download, transfer, expansion and utilization?