SwresTools/README.md

SwresTools is a set of two tools for exploring and dumping classic Macintosh resource forks, written in Swift.

SwresTools can convert some resources to modern types. For example, it can translate some snd resources to WAV files.

To be honest, this was just a fun side project and shouldn't be used for anything important.

SwresExplode

SwresExplode dumps the resources of a classic Macintosh resource fork to individual files.

For example, list all of the resource types in a resource fork:

SwresExplode resourcefile

Dump all snd resources to individual files:

SwresExplode -d -t 'snd '

SwresFUSE

SwresFUSE mounts a resource fork as a filesystem. It requires FUSE for macOS.

Example usage:

SwresFUSE resourcefile mountpoint

Why?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No, Really, Why?

I wanted to rip the music out of the old Mac game Troubled Souls, and this seemed like such a bad way to go about it I had to give it a go. I was playing around with Swift and thought this would be a fun way to write a project that interfaced with a C library.

Building

You may need to point the header parameter of Modules/FUSE/module.modulemap to your FUSE header directory. For some reason module maps don't seem to respect header search paths and need absolute paths.

Limitations

• The translators are very limited. Only Pascal style prefix strings and an extremely limited subset of SND resources are supported.
• ResEdit features like RMAP and TMPL resources are not supported.
• Editing or creating new resources is not supported.