Disk Phoenix

Disk Phoenix reads the disks of the classic Mac era: floppies, hard disk images, CD-ROMs and the archives found on them. It lets you browse them like a Finder window, check and repair damaged volumes, and export documents into formats modern applications open.

It’s for anyone with a shoebox of old disks, a folder of downloaded images, or a project last saved in 1994, and for archivists who need a file out byte for byte.

Disk Phoenix is in development. It’s being built now and hasn’t been released.

Designed to handle

• MFS, HFS and HFS+ volumes
• Disk Copy 4.2, NDIF, DART, raw and partitioned images
• Flux images (.scp, .moof; Applesauce and Greaseweazle captures) and USB floppy drives
• StuffIt, Compact Pro, Installer VISE and other archives
• Resource forks and compressed resources
• Classic documents, pictures, sounds and QuickTime movies, exported to modern formats

Distribution

Planned for the Mac App Store. It’s built to run sandboxed, on public APIs.

From the workshop

The work behind Disk Phoenix, written up on Insanely Digital:

• A 1991 Floppy, Mounted in macOS 27
• Nobody Wrote It Down
• We Shipped the Mathematics
• The Letters Apple Never Shipped
• Reverse Engineering, With Receipts
• Old Over New