Originally posted on resexcellence.com. The original article can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/19990220021352/http://www.resexcellence.com:80/resedit.shtml     ResEdit Precautions Always work on a copy If you do nothing else, at least do this. Working on a copy ensures that no matter how bad you screw up, you have something to fall back on. Of course if you are hacking software you can reinstall it if...

  This howto article assumes you know how to unzip a .zip file and do basic Windows tasks like create folders.  I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium, but this howto should work fine on Win 8 and Win 10. Download the 2015-02-26 build of Basilisk II (BasiliskII--2015-02-26----68k-color-emulator-with-floppy-support.zip) from Macintosh Repository (MR). Create a new folder on your Windows hard drive called...

Sending files with serial modems   Introduction This is akind in principle to doing it with just a serial cable except that you need more stuff and different software to accomplish the same goal. So if you want something simpler to accomplish file transfer and that is more reliable, I'd recommand you do it with just a regular serial cable. This is specifically for people that want to recreate modem communications. This...

Here's a full tutorial on how to install Mac OS 9.2.2 under UTM on your modern Intel or Apple Silicon Mac with file sharing (through FTP) so that you can send/receive files between your host OS (e.g. macOS Sequoia) and Mac OS 9.2.2 that resides inside of UTM. Step -1: You need a FTP server to make use of this tutorial.  On a modern Intel or Apple Silicon Mac, I highly recommend the simple frontend made by Leszek Szary which you...

I always tend to run emulators on my machine. With that in mind, I do have hours of VMs in Virtual PC, VirtualBox, VMware, QEMU, and SheepShaver under my belt. But I've first used PPC Macs in high school, and now that I can emulate them, I would like to share some of my experiences here, as well as some pointers. Please take note that you are encouraged to give me a few pointers of your own: leave them in the comments! My Mac OS...

Hello! i'm using an iBook g3/800, and i've gotten most out of it despite phone dialing out. I know that AIM is no longer in service, and skype refuses to open. i have spent quite a while trying to find some compatible software, i did find some but only for macOS 9 and earlier while i'm running macOS 10.4. i can use the built in modem to dial out but i can't get audio to work because its trying to call an ISP, NOT a mobile...

Hello there! This guide is about getting you started in using MacWorks on LisaEm... First, the process might be looking complicated, so i'll try to provide the most possible number of screenshots, if you want new screenshots to be added, comment below!   Let's start, first you need to download this MacWorks special version (You should use MacWorks XL 3.0), here. After that, you should delete the System Disk A after...

In System Folder > Control Panels > TCP/IP you will notice that you can set a hosts file (top/right button). That file is just a text file containing DNS entries so that your computer doesn't have to resolve them and/or you can force what IP they resolve to.  The format is slightly different from nowadays hosts files... I got inspiration from this useful page: https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php?hostformat=machosts # This is...

I tried installing Microsoft Office:Mac 2011 on my Mac Mini and at the activation step I got the message that the activation servers couldn't be reached. Today, when you try attempt to activate Office for Mac 2011, you may receive an error message "Online activation did not complete successfully because the activation server is temporarily unavailable."  I then looked around and found out perhaps some people at...

Instead of being continually frustrated with SheepShaver, although an amazing piece of emulation software, I decided to resurrect my old PowerMac 7300. The problems I had were that the CMOS battery was dead, and the hard drive was tiny, only 6GB. The battery was replaced with one from Amazon for about $8.00  I had a stack of older hard drives, luckily one that was IDE and 120GB in size. Under OS 9, the OS needs to be installed in the...

      As we all know AIM  was shut down as of December 15, 2017. But soon after a new group came to the scene allowing people to use AIM once again. Soon classic Mac users wanted in on the action but soon came to the conclusion of not being able to connect to the server via the client. This was due to the fact that the aim clients for the Macintosh didn't come with a direct way to edit the host address. But as of in this...

Using a Compact Flash (CF) to IDE (ATA) Adapter in an IDE-Based Macintosh... First and foremost, thanks to the mostly anonymous forum posts which guided me to the correct setup. This article will cover what you need, where to get it, how to do it, and where to go from there! The Background Understanding what type of Macintosh this guide covers is key to your sucess. THIS IS NOT INTENDED FOR SCSI or SATA (extremely...

What is a .a2r file? A .a2r file is a Applesauce flux disk image, more details here: https://applesaucefdc.com/a2r/

What is a .dmg file? A .dmg file is a disk image, meaning it's an exact copy (raw block DATA) of a disk (CD, DVD, USB stick, etc...) or even just a folder wrapped in a disk image. DMG images have been the default file format for distributing software on the internet for Mac OS X users since the year 2000.  DMG images are safe to store on any partition type, such as Windows (NTFS) and are safe to distribute over FTP, send by email,...

What is a .dsk file? A .dsk file is a DiskDup image, an exact copy (sector by sector) of a floppy disk. DSK images were a popular format for cloning or duplicating 1980's and 1990's Macintosh floppy disks.   How to use or extract DSK images contents? DSK images are mountable and writeable/clonable onto real floppy disks.  Tough, remember that if you want to write a DSK image onto a real floppy disk using a Windows...

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...

What is a .mar file? A .mar file is a cross between an UNIX and a MacBinary archive.  Although a small group of individuals use it, there is no real point in using this format on Mac, except to make your archives as unlikely to be expanded by n00bs as possible.  You see, even though I'm sure that some genius, somewhere, will tell you that it's widely supported, it's hard to argue against the fact that even The Unarchiver...

What is a .rar file? A .rar file is a RAR archive, much like a ZIP file, except it's a proprietary format mostly used under the Windows environment.   How to use or extract .rar archives contents? To extract or expand a .rar archive, you simply open it with your favorite decompression tool, as it is widely supported.   Under Classic Mac OS (before Mac OS X) Mac OS 8.1 to Mac OS 9.2.2: Stuffit Expander 6.0 or...

What is a .sit file? A .sit file is a Stuffit archive, much like ZIP files today, except that .sit is a proprietary archive format from the 90's which allowed Mac users to confidently "stuff" their files, applications and documents into a flat file that could then be copied to a non-Mac hard drive partition, namely a DOS (FAT32) or Windows (NTFS) partition, without any risk of DATA corruption.  You see, throughout the...