Comments on: HFS Utillities

By: Lubo

Lubo — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 05:13:58 +0000

It is in their wiki, logical, but not obvious for those not used to open source:

https://github.com/Aleph-One-Marathon/alephone/wiki/Linux-Install-Instructions

For Mac and the icky OS, they provide precompiled binaries. FYI, the MS binaries seem to work OK, if a bit slow, in wine 5.1.7 from winehq, on Debian 9+. YMMV.

By: Lubo

Lubo — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 03:58:20 +0000

To make Aleph One compile, at least on Debian based Linux:

Install the following:

sudo apt install libboost-all-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-net-dev

Not mentioned on their site, maybe I’m going blind in my old age?

By: Lubo

Lubo — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 03:13:36 +0000

Marathon, from the Bungie PRE-Evil M$ days. Noice.

FYI, since they consider this almost abandonware, they donated their source, with a BSD or GPL license, and the is an open source effort to port it to Linux and that redmond garbage.

https://alephone.lhowon.org/

Don’t let Bob shoot you.

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:33:02 +0000

In reply to DOS. HFS+ is kinda irreverent for 68k emulation as it only showed up in MacOS 8.1, the last version for 68k machines. Its more useful for PPC emulation, but 2GB HFS images are usually fine for emulation use. Not mentioned in this thread are the OS level drivers for HFS/HFS+ like MacDrive or opensource projects like FUSE. They are primarily for mounting physical disks as a drive letter on the OS level, not images (although FUSE can do images since *NIX everything is a file :P)

By: DOS

DOS — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:07:34 +0000

In reply to Chris M.. That tool seems nice, I used it once for something else. It sounds like of the three tools, HFV Explorer might be the only one that supports HFS Plus? I don't think that has ever been a problem for me personally though.

By: raijinkai

raijinkai — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:16:54 +0000

On its day… I used to mount these images directly using something like Arsenal Image Mounter (directly accessible) or StarWind in iSCSI mode (indirect access, you need to use a iSCSI client like MS Initiator to mount it), and then let HFV Explorer access individual partitions of the image (It has provisions for accessing Apple Map partitioned HDDs because Syquest removables and Iomega Jazz drives). But I don’t remember if it was using ASPI (definitely will not work in Win10), or it could use NT SPTI native API for SCSI devices.

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:01:51 +0000

CiderPress can work with images or actual disks that have an Apple Partition Map.

http://a2ciderpress.com/

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:29:12 +0000

In reply to DOS. Oh nice! I was meaning to mess with Sim City and some tcl TK. Or port it to something more insane.

By: DOS

DOS — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:05:13 +0000

hfsutils also has a small GUI (nowhere near as nice as HFVExplorer): xhfs, pictured at the linked home page for the tool.

https://github.com/JotaRandom/hfsutils, a fork of the original code with various fixes, includes a patch that enables xhfs to build with a more modern Tcl version.