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This looks cool but very hard to make use of. I wish the author had some info on how to operate on the file format too. I could see myself using this for a retr

This looks cool but very hard to make use of. I wish the author had some info on how to operate on the file format too. I could see myself using this for a retro looking game or something like that.

duskwuff 2y ago
> I wish the author had some info on how to operate on the file format too. There's some documentation in some of the archives linked from [1]. You'll need to be familiar with classic MacOS file formats to make much sense of it, though; it relies heavily on technologies which died with that platform. That being said: > I could see myself using this for a retro looking game or something like that. You'd probably be better off using the previews as inspiration and designing your own graphics. The themes are all built out of bitmap graphics, and are designed at a scale appropriate for a 640x480 display. The preview images aren't scaled down; that's how big the widgets really were. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20110728002932/http://www.kaleidoscope.net/schemes/utilities.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110728002932/http://www.kaleid...
- emmanueloga_ 2y ago
  Luxurious 640x480 sounds suitable for the coveted retro graphics look :-) I switched to OSX late and was not acquainted with Stuffit. It appears these .sit archives are in that format, but the "unar" utility on my system extracts only a readme file (in plain text), with the remainder being 0 byte files. unar -version # v1.10.7 Maybe an alternative unarchiver or a previous version might work.
  - Someone 2y ago
    StuffIt compression is proprietary, but they’re (somehow) still in business, _and_ provide free decompressors for Mac and Windows: https://stuffit.com/ https://stuffit.com/
  - duskwuff 2y ago
    > It appears these .sit archives are in that format, but the "unar" utility on my system extracts only a readme file (in plain text), with the remainder being 0 byte files. A lot of these files (including the themes themselves) will have all their data in the resource fork. Your system may not support those. The easiest way to get started looking at these files may actually be to open them up on an emulated classic Mac, e.g. http://system7.app/ http://system7.app/. There's an installer for Kaleidoscope already downloaded in Infinite HD:Control Panels & Extensions:Kaleidoscope.

This looks cool but very hard to make use of. I wish the author had some info on how to operate on the file format too. I could see myself using this for a retro looking game or something like that.

duskwuff 2y ago

> I wish the author had some info on how to operate on the file format too. There's some documentation in some of the archives linked from [1]. You'll need to be familiar with classic MacOS file formats to make much sense of it, though; it relies heavily on technologies which died with that platform. That being said: > I could see myself using this for a retro looking game or something like that. You'd probably be better off using the previews as inspiration and designing your own graphics. The themes are all built out of bitmap graphics, and are designed at a scale appropriate for a 640x480 display. The preview images aren't scaled down; that's how big the widgets really were. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20110728002932/http://www.kaleidoscope.net/schemes/utilities.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110728002932/http://www.kaleid...

emmanueloga_ 2y ago
Luxurious 640x480 sounds suitable for the coveted retro graphics look :-) I switched to OSX late and was not acquainted with Stuffit. It appears these .sit archives are in that format, but the "unar" utility on my system extracts only a readme file (in plain text), with the remainder being 0 byte files. unar -version # v1.10.7 Maybe an alternative unarchiver or a previous version might work.
- Someone 2y ago
  StuffIt compression is proprietary, but they’re (somehow) still in business, _and_ provide free decompressors for Mac and Windows: https://stuffit.com/ https://stuffit.com/
- duskwuff 2y ago
  > It appears these .sit archives are in that format, but the "unar" utility on my system extracts only a readme file (in plain text), with the remainder being 0 byte files. A lot of these files (including the themes themselves) will have all their data in the resource fork. Your system may not support those. The easiest way to get started looking at these files may actually be to open them up on an emulated classic Mac, e.g. http://system7.app/ http://system7.app/. There's an installer for Kaleidoscope already downloaded in Infinite HD:Control Panels & Extensions:Kaleidoscope.