I get so frustrated with StuffIt sometimes! Tanuki65 is right. A lot of software for 68000 Macs is (perversely) compressed using a version of StuffIt that doesn't run on 68000 Macs. ARGGGGGHHHHH!! Worse, it doesn't even give you a sensible error message like "This file is from a different version of StuffIt".
My admittedly poor solution is to use an emulator like Sheepshaver or Basilisk II, which can emulate a more modern Mac. Then run a later version of StuffIt on there, unstuff the file, and if desired re-stuff it using an older version of StuffIt. Then take the result back to Mini vMac.
Unfortunately it's kind of a pain to set up Sheepshaver and Basilisk II.
You know what would be super awesome? A Windows / Mac OSX application that could automatically down-convert any StuffIt archive to StuffIt 1.5.1 format.
My admittedly poor solution is to use an emulator like Sheepshaver or Basilisk II, which can emulate a more modern Mac. Then run a later version of StuffIt on there, unstuff the file, and if desired re-stuff it using an older version of StuffIt. Then take the result back to Mini vMac.
Unfortunately it's kind of a pain to set up Sheepshaver and Basilisk II.
You know what would be super awesome? A Windows / Mac OSX application that could automatically down-convert any StuffIt archive to StuffIt 1.5.1 format.