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Mac Hut is back

68kMLA Software 117 posts Feb 18, 2009 to Mar 12, 2025

#1 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 - 21:00 68kMLA

So you are probably wondering "what is Mac Hut".

Mac Hut is an archive of older 68K and PPC Macintosh software I started in 2005. It went offline in 2007, but now it's back. About 617.5MB worth of software is available for download. Another 50 GB (yes, gigabytes) is archived offline. The online collection is going to be updated regularly.

Browse the new archive at:

http://www.valleyofthelights.com/jcoventry/machut/

Enjoy. PM or e-mail any requests for specific files you can't find.

#2 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 03:05 68kMLA

Thank you for the archive; I'll be raiding it tomorrow. Now you just need to buy a server with a 50 GB disk for the rest.

#3 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 04:41 68kMLA

Wonderful. It's nice to have another source of old software. I hope you keep up the updates.

#4 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 08:10 68kMLA

Thank you for your comments. The problem is not storage, but rather bandwidth.

I will be adding more files today.

For anyone interested, there's now a Gopher server as well (incomplete):

gopher://76.177.76.174/1machut.folder

#5 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 16:41 68kMLA

Awesome work! Should I report broken files in the thread or by PM though, at least one high profile program I'd been hoping to use is incomplete and thus won't install, but I'm not sure if I should name it on an open forum...

#6 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 17:16 68kMLA

PM or e-mail any file requests or other feedback like broken links, etc.

#7 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 18:57 68kMLA

I have uploaded over 300MB worth of updaters to Mac Hut - most of them will only work if you already have a previous version of the software installed. I am now uploading over 200MB of games, mostly shareware and demos.

#8 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 20:24 68kMLA

I have uploaded over 300MB worth of updaters to Mac Hut - most of them will only work if you already have a previous version of the software installed. I am now uploading over 200MB of games, mostly shareware and demos.

Change the index page so it includes the "updaters" catagory

#9 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 20:51 68kMLA

I downloaded a few things from your site; thanks for putting that stuff out there :beige:

Cheers!

#10 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 21:47 68kMLA

Important Note:

If you downloaded any .image, .img, .ima or .sea files from Mac Hut without any .hqx, .bin or .sit extensions, then please re-download these files. The ones you downloaded will have been corrupted due to the resource fork being lost. This is now fixed since I have archived the bare files within .sit archives. Sorry for the mess-up there.

#11 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 22:09 68kMLA

Important Note:If you downloaded any .image, .img, .ima or .sea files from Mac Hut without any .hqx, .bin or .sit extensions, then please re-download these files. The ones you downloaded will have been corrupted due to the resource fork being lost. This is now fixed since I have archived the bare files within .sit archives. Sorry for the mess-up there.

...But why would disk images need a resource fork under OSX???

#12 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 22:22 68kMLA

Important Note:If you downloaded any .image, .img, .ima or .sea files from Mac Hut without any .hqx, .bin or .sit extensions, then please re-download these files. The ones you downloaded will have been corrupted due to the resource fork being lost. This is now fixed since I have archived the bare files within .sit archives. Sorry for the mess-up there.

Click to expand...

...But why would disk images need a resource fork under OSX???

Those are old images, created using Disk Copy. Those files have resource forks. .dmg files created in OS X are a whole other story.

#13 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 22:42 68kMLA

I seeeeeeeeeeeeee...

#14 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 23:05 68kMLA

SIT files probably are the best way to provide both compression and fork protection, though you should make sure that your SITs will properly open in at least StuffIt Expander 5.5, if not earlier. Providing a .bin wrapper is probably a good idea too, though, as you can't be TOO careful.

#15 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 23:14 68kMLA

Yeah... and compress it with stuffit 1.5 for max compatibility...

No, really!

#16 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 23:18 68kMLA

I compress using DropStuff 5.1.2 on OS 9 and with DropStuff 7.0 on OS X. Haven't had any compatibility issues so far.

#17 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 23:52 68kMLA

I compress using DropStuff 5.1.2 on OS 9 and with DropStuff 7.0 on OS X. Haven't had any compatibility issues so far.

Stuffit 5 uses a differant format, just like 1.6.1 used a differant format than 1.5.1

Try expanding some Stuffit 5 files using Stuffit 4

#18 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 - 21:08 68kMLA

As long as people have Stuffit Expander 5.5, they should be fine.

There is now approx. 1.31 GB on the server.

I might be adding .txt files with descriptions/version numbers/etc for every file, but this will be very time consuming, so we'll see.

There is now an IRC channel:

#machut on irc.freenode.net

I hope everyone is enjoying Mac Hut.

#19 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 - 22:00 68kMLA

Wackymacs, see my reply in the Free System 6 Software thread.

#20 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 - 20:14 68kMLA

Yeah, thanks wackymacs! MacHut is really great!

#21 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 - 07:27 68kMLA

Update:

Changes to server directory listings

Several changes have been made to the directory listings on Mac Hut:

* The filename column now adjusts its width to the filenames in the directory you are browsing.

* If a directory has sub-directories, those will now be listed first, before individual files.

* All files are now listed alphabetically, ascending.

Descriptions!

I have started the very long and slow process of adding descriptions to every file. You will see descriptions in the 'Descriptions' column.

A directory with descriptions:

http://www.valleyofthelights.com/jcoventry/machut/files/util/system/'>http://www.valleyofthelights.com/jcoventry/machut/files/util/system/

Upload your files

You can now upload your own files to Mac Hut. Connect to http://www.valleyofthelights.com with username 'upload' and no password via an FTP client.

Enjoy!

#22 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 - 09:49 68kMLA

At this very moment in the space-time continuum, Fetch 5.3 accuses your site of inaccessibility. So? Or no?

de

#23 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 - 09:55 68kMLA

At this very moment in the space-time continuum, Fetch 5.3 accuses your site of inaccessibility. So? Or no?
de

Fetch lies - I'm using the FTP right now, and just tested the upload account, works fine.

Make sure you are using:

Server: www.valleyofthelights.com

User: upload

no password.

#24 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 - 10:06 68kMLA

I was doing that, and now I yam doing that, I yam, I yam, and the upload is proceeding even as we speak, albeit at glacial speed.

de

#25 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 - 13:42 68kMLA

Just remember to be sure you set your FTP client to binary mode before you send. I accidentally left mine in "auto" mode and it transfered my files as text files, which of course corrupted them. I had to redo my uploads in binary mode to get them to work!

#26 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 - 17:17 68kMLA

Thank you to those who have been uploading files.

Public mirror

Is anyone willing to host a public mirror of Mac Hut? Ideally, the host needs to have a good connection (hopefully with no bandwidth limits), Apache, and at least 5GB storage. PM or e-mail me if you are able to help.

Statistics

Here's some stats:

286 unique visitors in February, 478 visits, 30125 hits, 6.95 GB downloaded.

The most popular file is "SoftWindows 1.0.2.sit" with 23 downloads.

There have been 12 hits from AmigaOS users!

#27 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 - 18:08 68kMLA

The first mirror of Mac Hut is now online:

http://machut.uberhost.dyndns.org/

Use it if the official site happens to be down, or is really slow.

#28 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 - 21:04 68kMLA

Pretty sweet, Wacky !

I've added MacHut to the list of **Free "System 6" SoftWare**

:b&w:

#29 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 - 21:07 68kMLA

Any sign of MacTerminal 2, eg the one that uses the Communications Toolbox?

#30 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 - 09:05 68kMLA

I haven't seen that file on machut or my local mirrors of quite a bunch of macintosh web/ftp sites. Does it exist?

#31 Thu, 9 Apr 2009 - 23:36 68kMLA

wackymacs, is your server located in a residential area? I can't seem to download from it any faster than 10 to 20 kilobytes per second. The mirror is no better; it started at roughly 35 kbps and then dropped to 7 kbps.

It's nice that people run their own servers from home, but the connection speed leaves much to be desired. :-/

#32 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 - 17:35 68kMLA

The servers are purposely throttled, as these are run on home connections.

#33 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 - 17:37 68kMLA

Well, that confirms what I had suspected. :-/

#34 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 - 19:44 68kMLA

I run the mirror for machut. It's at home and uses 6mbit download and 40kB upload. It's used for other stuff too, so you can get pretty low speeds.

However, a slow download is better than none at all. BTW, if you need faster access because you want to set up a mirror, i can make that happen. I hang around in #68kmla and #machut on Freenode.

#35 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 - 19:56 68kMLA

wackymacs, is your server located in a residential area? I can't seem to download from it any faster than 10 to 20 kilobytes per second. The mirror is no better; it started at roughly 35 kbps and then dropped to 7 kbps.
It's nice that people run their own servers from home, but the connection speed leaves much to be desired. :-/

Mac Hut seems pretty speedy to me... I can get 3.5, even 4kbps download speeds! But i guess its only because i'm on dialup...

#36 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 - 23:38 68kMLA

Just to let everyone know, the server is back up and its now hosted on OS X instead of Vista.

#37 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 - 23:40 68kMLA

Just to let everyone know, the server is back up and its now hosted on OS X instead of Vista.

It was hosted on Vista?! You've got a lot of nerve. >

#38 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 00:12 68kMLA

er... i get:

Safari can’t open the page.

Safari can’t open the page “http://www.valleyofthelights.com/jcoventry/machut” because the server where this page is located isn’t responding.

#39 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 01:56 68kMLA

From what I can gather, the server's up, but there's nothing on it.

*crosses his fingers that Mac Hut comes back online sometime within my last 48 hours of access to high speed intarwebs*

#40 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 08:04 68kMLA

The correct address is http://machut.valleyofthelights.com/ - works fine.

#41 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 16:31 68kMLA

The correct address is http://machut.valleyofthelights.com/ - works fine.

Doesn't work for me.

#42 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 18:22 68kMLA

Network Timeout

The server at machut.valleyofthelights.com is taking too long to respond.

The requested site did not respond to a connection request and the browser has stopped waiting for a reply.

* Could the server be experiencing high demand or a temporary outage? Try again later.

* Are you unable to browse other sites? Check the computer's network connection.

* Is your computer or network protected by a firewall or proxy? Incorrect settings can interfere with Web browsing.

* Still having trouble? Consult your network administrator or Internet provider for assistance.

#43 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 18:27 68kMLA

And a proxy gives me:

couldn't connect to host

So... try it from within a proxy, wackymacs!

#44 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 21:22 68kMLA

Ugh, bad timing. It was down for a while today because of all the storms over where the host is. It is working fine now.

#45 Sun, 9 Oct 2011 - 14:14 68kMLA

Hi ladies!

Turns out you have to pay DynDNS.org to use subdomains these days. Wich is why the mirror can't be accessed any more:

http://machut.uberhost.dyndns.org/

Anyways, you can access the Machut mirror here (in fact, you could all the time :lol: ):

http://uberhost.dyndns.org/machut/

If you use wget or something like that make sure you

have 3383 mb of free space
don't use excessive bandwidth, the host is at my flat and connected using a tiny cable with tiny bandwidth.
don't mirror parent directorys, because it would download petabytes of stuff (straight from /dev/urandom and /dev/zero) you have no interest in.
don't forget to use the -c switch, wget will then see that you have some files and check my files if they are newer, then it continues where it was stopped, saving time and bandwidth for you an me.
limit your bandwith, so other can get a few bytes for themselfs and i can still surf the web.

I would suggest this commandline:

Code:

wget -c -m -np --limit-bandwidth=10k http://uberhost.dyndns.org/machut/

If you use another download manager make sure it mimics those settings. Some programs are really greedy, some even start 5 or 10 downloads at the same time, and i would have to blacklist your ip, your provider or even remove the mirror.

So, be gentle with my little uberhost.

#46 Sun, 9 Oct 2011 - 15:45 68kMLA

I would suggest this commandline:

You also need to add -e robots=off

#47 Sun, 9 Oct 2011 - 16:28 68kMLA

Indeed, sorry about that.

#48 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 - 17:28 68kMLA

Code:

--limit-bandwidth=10k

On OS X it's "--limit-rate"

Is there any sort of Members-only area here? I may be able to mirror the Mac Hut pages on a small scale from my server. I just don't want it showing up on every search engine and killing my transfer limits.

#49 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 - 20:35 68kMLA

Members only? No such thing at MacHut

.

MacHut is sleeping (unfriendly voices say dead) since 2009. Get a few files, make a mirror for personal use or to share with the community, i don't mind. I'm quite sure joshc doesn't either.