68k emulation or Disk Doubler file expansion on Mini Core Duo
I have a somewhat esoteric question, for the die-hard mac fans.
I recently unearthed two CDs that are copies of the contents of the two hard drives I had in my Mac Quadra 660AV in college (I am dating myself). At first I was overjoyed to be able to read all my old files, but that joy turned to despair when I discovered that the files are all compressed using Disk Doubler, which was a utility for keeping all your files compressed and only uncompressing them when needed. Seems silly in the age of 400 GB hard drives.
In any case, I have been looking for a way to uncompress these files. I suspect that Norton Expand may work to uncompress them, but can't find out, because it is an OS9 app and I have a new Mac Mini core duo, which does not support classic mode. Another, preferable option would be to run the original unzipping program in emulation mode. This would require a 68k emulator that works on OSX. I found a fellow who had ported Basilisk II to OSX, but since I chucked my defunct 660AV, I don't have the ROM file and thus can't run Basilisk II.
So these are my questions:
1) Anyone know of an OSX-compatible unzipper for disk doubler?
2) Is anyone out there running Basilisk II on OSX that could connect with me to walk me through how to get it working for me?
3) Failing 1 and 2, would anyone be willing to run Norton Expand for me under Classic emulation and unzip a subset of my files? I can post the files to an FTP site, along with a copy of Norton Expand.
Many thanks!
Mac Mini Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1 GB RAM
I recently unearthed two CDs that are copies of the contents of the two hard drives I had in my Mac Quadra 660AV in college (I am dating myself). At first I was overjoyed to be able to read all my old files, but that joy turned to despair when I discovered that the files are all compressed using Disk Doubler, which was a utility for keeping all your files compressed and only uncompressing them when needed. Seems silly in the age of 400 GB hard drives.
In any case, I have been looking for a way to uncompress these files. I suspect that Norton Expand may work to uncompress them, but can't find out, because it is an OS9 app and I have a new Mac Mini core duo, which does not support classic mode. Another, preferable option would be to run the original unzipping program in emulation mode. This would require a 68k emulator that works on OSX. I found a fellow who had ported Basilisk II to OSX, but since I chucked my defunct 660AV, I don't have the ROM file and thus can't run Basilisk II.
So these are my questions:
1) Anyone know of an OSX-compatible unzipper for disk doubler?
2) Is anyone out there running Basilisk II on OSX that could connect with me to walk me through how to get it working for me?
3) Failing 1 and 2, would anyone be willing to run Norton Expand for me under Classic emulation and unzip a subset of my files? I can post the files to an FTP site, along with a copy of Norton Expand.
Many thanks!
Mac Mini Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1 GB RAM
