SwresTools/README.md

SwresTools is a set of two tools for exploring and dumping classic Macintosh resource forks, written in Swift. The best(worst) part is you can mount a resource fork as a filesystem with FUSE.

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.