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Mac Hut is back

· Software · 117 posts · Feb 18, 2009 — Mar 12, 2025 View original thread ↗

#1 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 - 21:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

#7 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 18:57

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

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

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

Cheers!

#10 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 21:47

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

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

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

I seeeeeeeeeeeeee...

#14 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 23:05

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

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

No, really!

#16 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 - 23:18

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

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

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

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

#20 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 - 20:14

Yeah, thanks wackymacs! MacHut is really great!

#21 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 - 07:27

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pretty sweet, Wacky !

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

:b&w:

#29 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 - 21:07

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

#30 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 - 09:05

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