I use the common formats associated with the platform so that a user who grabs a part of your archie and transfer it to the machine it was intended for and use it.
Here is what I do:
I use Toast to make CD images of Mac CDs, they can be burned on a PC if you change the toast extension to *.iso. You can also just use any PC app that does an ISO format since you can burn the CDs on any platform and still use them on any Mac.
All floppies are imaged using diskcopy 6.3.3 from Apple, the images are then compressed into one file using 68k compatible stuffit (*.sit). Compressed files can be moved around to different platforms and HDs without getting them trashed (losing the resource fork). I recommend using a 68K with a superdrive if you want to read 720k and earlier floppies.
Here is what I do:
I use Toast to make CD images of Mac CDs, they can be burned on a PC if you change the toast extension to *.iso. You can also just use any PC app that does an ISO format since you can burn the CDs on any platform and still use them on any Mac.
All floppies are imaged using diskcopy 6.3.3 from Apple, the images are then compressed into one file using 68k compatible stuffit (*.sit). Compressed files can be moved around to different platforms and HDs without getting them trashed (losing the resource fork). I recommend using a 68K with a superdrive if you want to read 720k and earlier floppies.