How to open a modern photograph on a Mac Plus?

[sigamy]

I have a Mac Plus that I occasionally play around with. My current project is to try to get a modern day photo to display on the Plus.

I have Graphic Converter on my M1 MBA and I have converted the photo to Black & White using Atkinson. I have also reduced the resolution. I'm able to open this on my M1 Air.

I tried USB floppy drive and copying files but that has not worked. So, I purchased a Floppy Emu. I'm new to all this emulation and disk image stuff, but I think I have figured out how to get files onto the SD card and now I can see the files on the Mac Plus.

But...the files show with just an empty icon and they do not open on the Plus. I have saved as PIC, PICT, .MAC, and even TIFF. Nothing will open on the Mac Plus. Again, the icons just look like an empty piece of paper. I thought all these formats were native to QuickDraw and should work.

I have System 6.0.8 and System 3.2 on the Floppy Emu. Again, I think now I know how to get files on via Basilisk II (but even that seems flaky, sometimes the files don't appear on the Mac Plus). I have MacDraw, MacWrite...its strange that MacPaint won't launch though.

So, I need help with getting the proper image format/file type/image file format. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? What would be the steps to convert a modern 24MP JPEG to a format that can be opened and viewed on a Mac Plus?

Bonus question---anyone know how I can get a working .DSK image file of System 7, and load that on the Emu?

 

[Bigwaff]

What program are you using on the Mac Plus to try to open the image file?

 

[sigamy]

I've tried double clicking on the files--I've had them as .MAC, .PIC, .PCT and .TIFF. I get an error: "The document "my file.tiff" could not be opened because the application program that created it could not be found."

I thought these would be "native" files and open in MacPaint or MacDraw. I've also tried File/Open from MacDraw.

MacPaint in the FloppyEmu 6.0.8 disk image will not load on my Plus. I think it says memory issue or something.

 

[Bigwaff]

There’s been 30 years of image format specification changes since those programs were written. Does not surprise me they can’t open modern files.

 

[Nermal]

Are the files "typed" as e.g. PICT or TIFF? Simply having ".pict" on the end of the name has no effect in the classic Mac OS.

 

[sigamy]

Thanks all.

Yeah...I was using Graphic Convert to convert these. I'm not expecting a 24MP JPEG to open on the Plus.

I converted to B&W, scaled to 332x300, and saved as PICT, TIFF, and eventually MacPaint (.Mac)--MacPaint format wasn't in the intial dropdown, I had to select "Show All" in Graphic Converter's Save As dialog.

Anyway...I think the MacPaint (.Mac) format did the trick. But honesty I did a few other things so not sure. But I was finally able to open the image in Basillik II emulator, then copy the file into the 6.0.8 disk image for Floppy Emu.

I was then able to open the file in MacDraw on the Plus!

Here is my Golden Retriever (Mario) on a 37 year old computer...we said goodbye to Mario last August.

 

[coolguy4747]

Just curious, certainly no judgment or anything, was there a "purpose" or just for the heck of it?

 

[sigamy]

Just curious, certainly no judgment or anything, was there a "purpose" or just for the heck of it?

I miss my dog. So I combined a small project on the Mac Plus with a tribute to him.

Next is to get the photo on my Newton.