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Offline Tenacious

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Re: Copying files from modern Mac to LC III - Help
« on: May 19, 2011, 10:21:18 PM »
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I want to copy some games to my Macintosh LC III using CD-ROM

The Macintosh is system 7.1 OS and has a SCSI CD-ROM drive.

I followed these instructions (link below) to burn a cd using my PowerMac (Leopard)

http://main.system7today.com/articles/tutorials/osxos7cdburning.html

The LC III reads the cd and sees the files but they do not open on the LC III.

I tried opening them using Stuffit 4.0 (On the LC III) but it just does not see them. Its as though (i dont understand) the files were broken when copying them to cd.

They are .sit files



I understand Amigas, Modern Macs and PCs but i am a total noob with this System 7 thingy so any help will be appreciated.  :)




IIRC, the LC III uses a 68030 processor.  It will only run software compiled for 680x0 processors.  When Apple switched to PPCs, they made provisions for the new CPUs to run older (680x0 style) software.  They also began writting fat software that would run on both during a transition period.  

As you know, Apple has a number of strategies, in additition to periodically switching CPUs, for obsoleting their older stuff.

I have several rescued "pizza box" Macs, including a LC III.  I think they are cool.  You can still get 680x0 software on the net, sites like pure-mac and others.

Naturally, this older 680x0 software is the same software that Amigas can run under emulation, like Fusion, etc.
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Re: Copying files from modern Mac to LC III - Help
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2011, 03:34:28 AM »
I used a SCSI Zip drive on the older Macs (and Amigas) and USB Zips on newer hardware.  It seems the older Macs would even read PC formatted Zip disks.
« Last Edit: May 21, 2011, 03:37:26 AM by Tenacious »