Re: Many File Formats: do they bother you?

[kevin@hackaday.com]

On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:23:24 PM UTC-5, D Finnigan wrote:
> Another survey thread. There are a number of file formats for Apple II
> users: NuFile (ShrinkIt), Binscii, Blu, Executioner, .dsk, .po, .sdk,
> etc....
> 
> Do they cause you bother when you download files? That is, does it take you
> some time to convert the file into a different format for use with an
> emulator or for transferring to real hardware?
> 
> If so, how do you manage? Do you have a program that is convenient for you?
> 
> -- 
> ]DF$
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> Macintosh computing.
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I absolutely HATE stuffit, never fails download file, go to unstuff, have the most recent version that will run on the machine, file wants version + 1 that requires OS+1 more than I have.

Now I have the powermac and OS9.22 its more doable, but now to check out a game on my SE with its dead floppy disk I end up spending the entire night transferring 2 dozen files over serial link, then most of the time I find out it wont run.

now to flame, why is it I can zip a file in windows 7 and pkunzip it on my 386 but I cant unstuff a freaking program thats MADE for my 86 mac cause someone used version 5 and the best that computer will run is version 4 something.

Stuffit can go stuffit.