Get data and apps, everything, off Mac Classic

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GUTexplorer
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Get data and apps, everything, off Mac Classic

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I had struggled with this for years so I thought I'd share...

My Mac Classic had System 6, no ethernet, no USB and until now no way (floppies were too small for my apps) to retrieve my old work and apps.
I solved it by removing the SCSI drive, put it in a modern AMD box with SCSI card and ribbons inside. Ran Debian Linux on the box, made a disk image (.img) of the entire 40 MB drive, copied that image to an USB stick, carried it to my newest Mac running SheepShaver. Added the image under SheepShaver set-up. It appears as a drive on the desktop... AND ALL THINGS WORK!

Hope this helps!

I had hoped linux would read the files and apps because it has HFS capability. It saw the files but the apps had zero size and couldn't launch.
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Re: Get data and apps, everything, off Mac Classic

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There are HFS utils for GNU/Linux, but I had little luck with them.
For file transfer of apps over foreign file systems you want to make .sit files of your apps beforehand.

As you have a PC with SCSI HBA, Basilisk II Build 142 may be worth a try.
BII 142 does handle Mac SCSI drives fine, the biggest problem on my side were drivers for my SCSI HBA in Windows and ASPI.
As both were only 32bit it was XP for me.
BII 142 makes use of the ASPI in Windows, therefore that has to be working flawlessly.
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