Hey folks,
I hope all is well. Curiosity got the better of me and I sent in an EMAC
external HDD I had for my old Mac Plus in for recovery. I'm happy to report
that the recovery was a success. Now I'm struggling to figure out how to
get at the old content :)
The biggest prize was finding piano.bas, which is a BASIC piano program I
wrote that (if I recall correctly) allows you to set how many notes to have
between octaves.
Anyway, the .bas file is not plaintext, but I can see strings in it. Here
are the first few bytes:
00000000: f900 1b00 3aaf e84f 6e65 2046 7275 636b ....:..One Fruck
00000010: 6564 2075 7020 7069 616e 6f00 000c 0061 ed up piano....a
00000020: 3af8 823a 20f8 8300 001e 009a 2022 5374 :..: ....... "St
I remember watching a documentary saying that source code used to be
encoded / compressed.
Anybody have any suggestions on how to decode it? Sorry if it's poor form
to put this in the body but here's the whole file:
begin 644 piano.bas
M^0`;`#JOZ$]N92!&<G5C:V5D('5P('!I86YO```,`&$Z^((Z(/B#```>`)H@
M(E-T87)T:6YG('!I=&-H("@T-#`I(CMA```;`)H@(DAA;&8@<W1E<',@=7`@
M*#`I(CMB```8`)H@(DQO;W`_('DL;B`H;BDB.V<D```1`)@@8>H1()<@&P``
M`'<``!(`8CIDZF'N$_`H8N\/#"D```L`^,`@9"P@$P``$P"4('/J$2#E(!P3
MB#JI(',```D`9>IE[!(``!$`F"!EZA0@ER`;````9@``$0"8(&7J&""7(!L`
M``!F```1`)@@9>H9()<@&P```&<```D`8NIB[!,```L`ER`;````8@``"P!F
M.F+J8NP2```+`)<@&P```&(``!<`9SH@F"!G).HB>2(@ER`;````:```"P"7
M(!L```!A```*`&@Z(&+J$0``"P"7(!L```!B```+`'<Z8>H<`;@```L`ER`;
(````8@``````
`
end
Also, again sorry if this is poor form, but I'm looking to find a good home
for the Mac Plus, if you know somebody in the Bay Area who's interested
please let me know.
Thanks!
Mike
PS I'm interested in other formats I'm seeing too (.ht, some extensionless
thing that might be MacPaint), any pointers are appreciated!
