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What it had instead was a bunch of icons that listed the extension names for supported files.

There was a Super User answer that pointed me in the right direction, but Archive Utility didn’t have an ist with the file information. Searching Google didn’t immediately turn up anything (something I’ve been finding more and more recently), so I wondered if there’s a way to inspect the application to find out what it supported. This morning I was reading an article about improvements to the Brotli compression algorithm, and found myself wondering: “ What compression formats does Apple’s Archive Utility support by default?”. Take a look, even if only to appreciate anew how much more capable today's computers are compared to what we had three decades ago.What file types does Apple’s Archive Utility open? AugShort version:Īs of macOS Catalina (10.15.6), Apple’s Archive Utility will try to open files with the following extensions:

The Internet Archive's sampling of Mac software can be found here.

Showing mounted volumes on the desktop, the idea of a "trash" can that could hold deleted files until you were sure you wanted to delete them, and the persistent menu bar complete with Apple logo are all still hallmarks of modern Macs. Names like "Finder" have also persisted, even though the modern-day Finder has little in common with the one in System 6 or 7. Even so, the user interface is recognizable even if you've only used Macs in our current post-Mac OS X, post-Intel era. The hardware that this old black-and-white software would have run on is wholly different from modern Macs-it hearkens back to the pre-PowerPC days when Macs still used the same Motorola 68000-series processors as the original 1984 Macintosh. Using a version of the PCE PC Emulator that has been ported to JavaScript, people interested in the Mac's early years can run System 6, System 7, and dozens of old apps, including MacWrite and Microsoft Basic using their browsers. Now, the Internet Archive has some retro computing offerings from the other side of the great Mac/PC divide. The Internet Archive is a great resource if you're looking to play with older PC apps and operating systems-thanks to a JavaScript port of DOSBox, you can run stuff like Mario Teaches Typing and Windows For Workgroups 3.11 right in your browser, giving you a quick and easy way to get some idea of what it was like to use a computer 20 or 25 years ago. Developing the next big app in Microsoft Basic.