rezycle at Mac App Store analyse

I used this to extract the resources for a really old game I was writing when I was a kid in 1995 that I want to turn into an iOS App. I had no idea how to get at the resources since ResEdit is super-obsolete, but rezycle automatically extracted all the PICT and icon resources (and others resources that I didnt care about) and converted into .pngs. It was a simple drag-and-drop!

Version 1.2 was actually better; it failed at generating decent icns and .strings files, but at least it didnt crash.

Im so glad this exists! Now I finally have something to do with all those Classic MacOS applications I have sitting around. Its almost kind of addictive looking through all the stuff they had hidden inside them. That being said though, I have some suggestions for how it could be improved: • Needs to be able to accept input from folders recursively. I want to be able to drop a folder full of .rsrc files onto this and have it process each of those files in turn. • Needs more options for controlling the output. Sure, "new" formats like .png are nice, but what if we want the actual original .pict files? • Theres a crashing bug that occurs consistently when it hits video resources. Something like "Required file handler not found" or something like that • It should work both ways. That is, once I de-rez a resource file and change around some of its contents, I should then be able to use this application to put the .rsrc bundle back together again.

This is awesome. It is definitely one of the easiest tools to use, and well worth the money for the time it saved me. I needed to extract text and sounds and graphics from a very old Mac game, Spaceward Ho! and we were able to use this to save a ton of time. When extracting the French language version, we found there were errors. I contacted the developer and they immediately responded and then provided a quick fix. Thanks so much!

This tool is highly useful for what it does - extracting resources. Particularly good for rescuing data from Mac OS 9-era applications, if you have any of those lying around. Though it cant handle everything, what it does handle it does a darn good job of converting to modern formats.

Did exactly what I needed: to extract the resources from an ol application. So it doesn’t have a flashy UI .. who cares? The app works.

Little apps like this are the reason I wish I searched the App Store before wasting an hour looking for utilities like this online. My time is worth heck of a lot more than $5 per hour!