Reading old burned Mac CDs

[mentaluproar]

A friend of mine has some super old Mac CDs. They were burned in the classic macOS days with toast. They use the apple partition map and HFS file system Modern Mac OS will not touch them.

I can mount them in a Linux VM manually if I tell it they are HFS. But there are illegal characters in the file names so copying them off the CDs fails for about half of them. I get a little farther lying to Linux and telling them to mount with a latin1 codepage but it’s not perfect.

Any tips for moving this off those old CDs?

 

[mentaluproar]

This guide kind of gets me there, but the recursive option seems broken. It see all directories but wont dig into them

How to Mount & Copy HFS Classic Mac Drives on MacOS

Modern versions of MacOS no longer support HFS, meaning that new Macs can no longer read, mount, or write to classic HFS drives. But a fair amount of longtime Mac users continue to have older Macs …

osxdaily.com

 

[joevt]

I use fusehfs to mount HFS disk images. I think it should work with CDs too? Requires MacFUSE.
https://thejoelpatrol.github.io/fusehfs/
https://macfuse.github.io/

Can you make a disk image and view it with Disk Jockey?
https://diskjockey.onegeekarmy.eu/