It is an app compatible with modern versions of macOS that can view and edit resource forks. I successfully used it today to extract AIFF audio data from an old sound file that had its data stored in a snd resource, and was therefore unusable by most modern Mac apps.
It is not signed, so Gatekeeper makes you jump through a hoop (right-click the app, then select Open, then give approval) the first time you launch it, but aside from that, it seems to get the job done. At least for the little I used it for today.
Iâm constantly amazed at how âthe internetâ manages to keep old technologies alive. This is excellent, and will be a huge help when I get around to going through my old archive CD-ROMs. More immediately, I dug out my old âSound Source Star WarsÂŽ Audio Clipsâ˘â a few months ago hoping to use the various clips (this was a classic Mac package that allowed you to assign sound clips to various system events like trashing a file).
None of my normal audio tools were able to convert or even open the sound files, which are sfil, a type of resource-fork only file that contains one or more snd resources. As with @Shamino, ResForge allowed me to export the clips as AIFF. In the immortal words of Darth Vader, and one of the clips I wanted, âI have you nowâ.
Thanks for posting about this @Shamino, it is an invaluable tool!
Back in the day, a friend and I turned the Finale 1.n enormously baroque dialog network (not merely a tree) into a mini adventure game. âYou are in a maze of twisty little dialog boxes all similar. You can retreat, or advance at any tempo.â âYou are standing on the edge of steep clef.â
I very much miss the time when macs were fun instead of merely âusefulâ and didnât constantly fight against my needs and whims.
@gingerbeardman, I just read your latest blog post about extracting sounds from Macromedia Director files. I know nothing about these file formats but noted that ProjectorRays left you with snd files. For future reference, in case you arenât aware of it, ResForge might be useful for this kind of thing. It can play and export snd resources. Possibly wouldnât have been part of your ultimate workflow, but itâs great for investigating classic Mac resource types to figure out whatâs going on. [I realise this is slightly off topic, but the âcommentâ option on your blog is Twitter which Iâm not on!]