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Diamond 5.0

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Category:	Compression & Archiving
Year released:	1990
Author:	SOFT Technologies
Publisher:	Sextant Corporation

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
diamond_5.0.sit (23.79 KB)
MD5: 44bd87d2aa35e8918f7738334c8aaf4d
For System 1 - 5 - System 7.0 - 7.6

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
Diamond_5.2_fr.sit (23.36 KB)
MD5: d707d55914c2131a36840050da5418b9
For System 1 - 5 - System 7.0 - 7.6

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
Diamond_5.6.tgz (16.71 KB)
MD5: 0ae81055f20b636586f10872ded93ec6
For System 1 - 5 - System 7.0 - 7.6

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
diamond-5x.sit (17.13 KB)
MD5: 0ff5e20dde580fbcd82cb25dba9f5c8a
For System 1 - 5 - System 7.0 - 7.6

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
Diamond_NoDemo_60.sit (17.24 KB)
MD5: 5ad8144a1faebe127b82795b1f7bb106
For System 1 - 5 - System 7.0 - 7.6

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
Diamond-Help.pdf

Emulation
This app works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II, Mini vMac

A very old file compression program, pre-dating StuffIt and Compact Pro. Its files cannot be opened by StuffIt Expander, ZipIt, etc.—only by Diamond itself.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Comments

by MacTouch - 2017, November 30 - 9:14pm

Hi there,

I have a French version 5.2 of this software. Should I upload it here ?

[EDIT] Finally, I've added the file on the page. There is an Apple logo on the icon...

by mrdav - 2017, August 21 - 1:18am

Thank you, Mike for converting the tgz, and thank you 24bit for getting on to this too.

by 24bit - 2017, August 20 - 2:32pm

Nice work, Mike!
This is looking MUCH better than the glued together screenshots.
No need for another DL methinks, not many will be using the app presumably.

by MikeTomTom - 2017, August 20 - 1:54pm

@24bit: Sorry about that. I was looking at the .tgz and thought I may as well wrap it up there and then.

I did replace the manual tho' as I didn't need to go down the OCR path. I opened the program in ResEdit and fortunately discovered the Help was in a plain text resource. So I just copied the text and dumped it into a word processor.

wouldn't´t it be nicer to have the app in an .img container - emulators in mind?

Well, the 3rd DL is compatible with real Macs running SSW 6 and earlier (which can't do .img files) and it's not so difficult to use the Unix drive for a couple of those emulators... but if you still have the one you wrapped up, add it to the page as well. They're only 20kb or less, after all

by 24bit - 2017, August 20 - 11:55am

Mike, you just did beat me, no problem on my side either.
Took me so long, as I wanted to have a "manual" too.
Text is looking really ugly, maybe push it through some OCR?
Some columns are double too - copy paste - without reading.
For the 3.DL, wouldn't´t it be nicer to have the app in an .img container - emulators in mind?

"Diamond can greatly reduce your modem transmission costs."

by MikeTomTom - 2017, August 20 - 11:02am

@mdav; The .tgz extracted correctly for me, using the built in archiver in OS X 10.4.11, "BOMArchiveHelper.app"

I repackaged it as StuffIt 3.6 ".sit" (3rd DL above) so it should be more friendly for at least SSW 6x and later. Added a couple of screenshots to show it working in Mini vMac running under SSW 7.1

by mrdav - 2017, August 20 - 8:32am

Can anyone extract a proper Mac application from the second download (Diamond_5.6.tgz)? When I unpack the archive I get two files (._Diamond 5.6 and Diamond 5.6) both with generic document icons. I have tried in both Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS X 10.4.11. The first file looks like it might be the resource file, but not linked to the other file to make a proper Mac application. Any idea on how to get a double-clickable application out of this?

by xy - 2010, December 27 - 11:40am

The Diamond format seems to be one of the few formats Stuffit can't open. Thanks for the uplaod!

by themacmeister - 2010, May 15 - 12:09am

Believe it or not, this pre-dates both Stuffit, and Compact Pro, so I believe it only opens its own file formats (not 100% sure of this)...

by Bolkonskij - 2010, May 14 - 9:42am

what file types can it open ?