![]() ![]() The only ones to see any widespread use were special-purpose "disk expanders" like DiskDoubler and SuperDisk!, which served a different niche. Several other Mac compression utilities appeared and disappeared during the 1990s, but none became a real threat to StuffIt's dominance. This move was a success, and Compact Pro subsequently fell out of use. Prior to this anyone attempting to use the format needed to buy StuffIt, making Compact Pro more attractive. ![]() Ī major competitive upgrade followed, accompanied by the release of the freeware StuffIt Expander, to make the format more universally readable, as well as the shareware StuffIt Lite which made it easier to produce. Because new features and techniques appeared regularly on the Macintosh platform, the shareware utility Compact Pro emerged as a competitor to StuffIt in the early 1990s. StuffIt was upgraded several times, and Lau removed himself from direct development as major upgrades to the "internal machinery" were rare. ![]() Deluxe added a variety of additional functions, including additional compression methods and integration into the Mac Finder to allow files to be compressed from a "Magic Menu", or seamlessly browse inside and edit compressed files without expanding them using "True Finder Integration". They split the product line in two, offering StuffIt Classic in shareware and StuffIt Deluxe as a commercial package. StuffIt soon became very popular and Aladdin Systems was formed to market it (the last shareware release by Lau was version 1.5.1). By the fall of 1987 StuffIt had largely replaced PackIt in the Mac world, with many software sites even going so far as to convert existing PackIt archives to save more space. Compared to existing utilities on the Mac, notably PackIt, StuffIt offered "one step" operation and higher compression ratios. It combined the fork-combining capabilities of utilities such as MacBinary with newer compression algorithms similar to those used in ZIP. StuffIt was originally developed in the summer of 1987 by Raymond Lau, who was then a student at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Raymond Lau (creator), currently Smith Micro Now you can run the Mini vMac executable and when you see the blinking question mark, you can just drag 024M.dsk onto the screen to boot it.SIT!, SITD, SIT2, SIT5 (depending on file version) Now you've got a disk image containing System 6 that Mini vMac can boot and that contains plenty of free space for applications. You will be asked for “System Startup” one more time before installation finishes - just drag the file from Windows to Mini vMac again.įigure two: About to Install System 6 on Mini vMac ![]() Click “OK” on the first prompt and then “Install” to install System 6 onto “untitled.” When asked for “System Additions” just drag that file from Windows on to the Mini vMac screen as you have done with the other disk images. Inside of the Mac OS double click on “System Startup” and then on “Installer” to begin installing the Mac OS. This disk should show up in the Mac OS as a disk called “untitled.” Run the Mini vMac executable and once again drag “System Startup” into the vMac screen. Extract the archive containing blank disk images that you downloaded at the start of this guide. ![]()
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