Lizstar

Gay Murr Girl

Liz, Goblin, Part-Time Shark, VTuber, retired speedrunner, author, GDQ staff, Sega fan, "Yuri Sommelier", Walking Encyclopedia of All Things Useless, Twitch partner, general menace. Says "Murr" a lot. This is not a place of honor, views my own, etc. Avatar art by me.


In order to install games and stuff, I need to use .img files, but online, people only ever have the files as .sit files. .sit is like an old zip format from the 90s mac scene.

I'm trying to find a way to unpackage these files, and well...

"Don't even bother trying" lmfao

I've tried getting into mac emulation multiple times and this shit always walls me. Do I seriously need a modern mac computer just to unzip these fucking files lmfao it'd be cheaper to just buy a powerpc


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You genuinely can’t unarchive a sit file on a PC though. There’s no place on the NTFS file system for the resource fork to go. This was a huge problem for years, a Mac file can’t be uploaded to the internet without being compressed, and it won’t work if it isn’t then safely uncompressed on a HFS volume at the end of it. All of the executable code is stored in the resource fork, so you’d lose all the important data otherwise.

Oh hey it says that in the above screenshot haha. But yes, you need to get the sit file onto the emulated Mac and extract it there. Gryphel had a bootstrapping process for this if you need it, lemme see

Edit: here, the top zip on this page will extract into a img with StuffIt on it.

oh that's really cool haha, but unfortunately as far as I know nothing really supports that now. Mac OS X stopped depending on resource forks but since it kept using the same filesystem it kept compatibility, and APFS was designed to support in-place upgrades of HFS+ and so also supports resource forks. But since modern Macs don't keep anything there, I suppose there isn't much interest for supporting that.

Looks like some AFP file sharing software for Windows used ADS's, and also in 2009 OS X added storing resource forks on NTFS SMB shares the same way, but SMB is now read only as of Big Sur, so that's irrelevant now. It seems like this is so uncommonly used that some antivirus will alert on even finding anything in an ADS?