Preparing files or discs are critical to the preservation of software here on the Macintosh Repository's archive and elsewhere for that matter. This article, although not exhaustive, should provide members with the knowledge necessary to gain a foothold of the terminology, a brief background and some possible steps to prepare loose files and physical discs for upload. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: DO NOT ZIP OR MOVE AN OLD MAC...

IMPORTANT: Never unpack or move files from Classic MacOS outside of Classic MacOS. Because non-MacOS operating systems and filesystems only have data forks, doing so will discard the resource forks and corrupt your files. (It's similar to how copying your Linux files to a FAT-formatted USB stick will throw away their permission bits, but more catastrophic.) When backing up vintage Macintosh software on Linux, there are three main concerns...

Alright, so next week we're going to start coding chat v3.  We've been on chat v2 for about 1 year, so it's time for improving it.  Here are the initial ideas, some based on previous feedback, some to improve things that I already hated from day one in v2 :P   Dark mode, color/themes We need dark mode enabled browsers (mostly anything made after like 2015-ish) to be able to automatically show a dark mode theme...

What is a .iso file? A .iso file is a disk image, meaning it's an exact copy (sector by sector) of a disk, e.g.: CD, DVD, USB stick, hard drive, etc... ISO images have been the most used file format for cloning or duplicating disks for a very long time, namely since the late 1980's along with the first consumer CD-ROM products.    How to use or extract ISO images contents? ISO images are mountable and...