Apr 15, 2020 The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for 'Archive Utility.app', the built-in archive unpacker program in OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than Archive Utility, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder.
This pair of compilation hard drives contains a full copy of MacOS 7.0.1, along with a range of games, applications, utilities and toys to demonstrate the experience of using an early Macintosh computer. System Programs: HyperCard, Macintosh Basics, Control Panels. Applications: BBEdit Lite, MacDraw, MacPaint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works, Orion, Pagemaker, ZTerm. Games: Risk, Cannon Fodder, Shufflepuck. Utilities: HD Setup, Disinfectant, Disk Copy, ResEdit, TeachText. Favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 8 reviews ). System 6 (also referred to as System Software 6) is a graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers.
It was released in 1988 by Apple Computer and was part of the classic Mac OS line of operating systems. System 6 was shipped with various Macintosh computers until it was succeeded by System 7 in 1991. The boxed version of System 6 cost $49 when introduced. System 6 is classed as a monolithic operating system. It featured an improved MultiFinder, which allowed for. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ).
Dark Castle is a 1986 computer game for the Macintosh published by Silicon Beach Software, later ported to various platforms, where it was published by Three-Sixty Pacific. It was designed and illustrated by Mark Pierce and programmed by Jonathan Gay. Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as well as solving occasional puzzles. The game is notable for its use of sampled sounds to great effect. Favorite favorite favorite ( 9 reviews ). MacPaint is a raster graphics editor developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite.
MacPaint was notable because it could generate graphics that could be used by other applications. Using the mouse, and the clipboard and QuickDraw picture language, pictures could be cut from MacPaint and pasted into MacWrite documents. Pictures could also be cut from. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 3 reviews ). The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974.
The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon 's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 3 reviews ) Topics: Oregon Trail, Macintosh, Apple Mac.
This Internet Archive emulated item contains a 25MB Macintosh formatted disk image with an install of Mac System 7.5.3. From Wikipedia: 'System 7.5.3, a major bug-fix update that also included Open Transport for other PowerPC-based machines as well as some 68k-based machines. 7.5.3 also made several improvements to the 68k emulator, and added translucent dragging support to the Drag Manager. It was also the first version of Control Strip for all Macs.
This was also the first version of Mac. Favorite favorite favorite ( 3 reviews ) Topics: Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh. From the Flight Simulator Website: In 1982 Microsoft released the first version of Flight Simulator for the IBM PC. Like all other versions this one too was created by subLOGIC. Essentially this was the true predecessor of our current version with a more or less complete panel and a 3D out-of-the-window view above.
The next comparable release was FS II for the Apple II in 1983 by subLOGIC itself, followed by similar releases for the Commodore 64 and Atari 400/800. In 1984 Microsoft released an. Published by Psygnosis Limited Developed by DMA Design Limited Released 1993 Your task is to rescue the Lemmings across 120 levels of fast-paced puzzling.
These creatures simply walk blindly through the world in the hope of reaching safety at the end of the level - unfortunately these levels include steep drops, gaps in the ground, barriers and rivers amongst other hazards. You are in control not of any individual Lemming, but of a cross-hair, which can be moved over any of the Lemmings. Favorite favorite favorite ( 2 reviews ).
Developed by Konami Industry Co. Released 1984 Also For Android, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, BREW, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Genesis, Intellivision, iPad, iPhone, J2ME, MSX, Odyssey 2, PC-6001, PC Booter, SNES, TI-99/4A, Timex Sinclair 2068, Tomy Tutor, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCo, VIC-20, Windows Phone, ZX81 Published by Sierra On-Line, Inc. Perspective Top-down Genre Action Gameplay Arcade Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description. Developed by Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
Released 1984 Platform Macintosh Published by Silicon Beach Software, Inc. Perspective Side view Genre Action Gameplay Shooter Description From a technology standpoint, Airborne! Was a somewhat pioneering game as it was the first Mac game to use digitized sound (most notably for the symphonic rendition of 'Ride Of The Valkyries' during the opening screen), but gameplay-wise, it's essentially an adaptation of Paratrooper. You control a single.
Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ). Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman and later contributions by Ken Arnold.
Rogue was originally developed around 1980 for Unix-based mainframe systems as a freely-distributed executable (Public domain software). It was later included in the official Berkeley Software Distribution 4.2 operating system (4.2BSD). Commercial ports of the game for a range of personal computers were made by Toy, Wichman, and Jon. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 2 reviews ). Developed by Aegis Development, Inc. Released Feb 21, 1985 Platform Macintosh Published by Aegis Development, Inc. Perspective 1st-person Pacing Real-Time Genre Action Setting Fantasy Description Pyramid of Peril is a dungeon crawler although it lacks RPG elements like experience points and levels.
The player is on an archaeological expedition in search of a sacred idol. To find it the player has to make his way through the pyramid, which consists of six randomly generated levels, while at the. The legendary first game of the Civilization series, it defined a new genre of turn based strategy. When Sid Meier's Civilization was released in 1991, it single-handedly changed the strategy video game market forever. Its format has since been copied by a number of 'turn-based' games, and the basic plot of the game was to build an empire. Once this had been successfully established, the aim of the game was to get your civilization to grow and flourish.
The game itself covered a wide period of. Topics: Civilization, Macintosh, MicroProse, Apple Mac. After launching the emulator (ensuring that sound is unmuted), allow the Mac OS to boot and then. After one minute of inactivity, After Dark will kick in. This emulated Internet Archive item contains version 2.0 of After Dark, the software that kicked off the screensaver craze of the 1990s. Additionally, the expansions 'More After Dark' and 'After Dark - Art of Darkness' have been added to the install. Navigate to the After Dark control panel via the Apple.
Favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 2 reviews ) Topics: After Dark, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh, Screensaver, Flying Toasters. Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future' (1991) Five Floppy Here is a link to an online version (greatly expanded upon the original): www.streettech.com Here is an excerpt from the preface: 'When we began Beyond Cyberpunk! (BCP), there was no such thing as the World Wide Web.
Hypermedia programs like Apple's HyperCard were the only way to inexpensively deliver hypertext with linked sounds, images, and animation. We saw in HyperCard the opportunity to create a. Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Beyond CyberPunk, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh.
Sir-tech Software, Inc. Developed by Sir-tech Software, Inc. Released Sep, 1981 Platforms Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, FM-7, Game Boy Color, Macintosh, MSX, NES, PC-88, PC-98, PC Booter, Sharp X1, WonderSwan Color Published by Sir-tech Software, Inc. Perspective 1st-person Pacing Turn-based Genre Role-Playing (RPG) Setting Fantasy Description The Mad Overlord Trebor was once only power-mad, but went off the deep end after he acquired a magical amulet of immense power, only to have it. Favorite ( 1 reviews ). 'Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom is a collection of 33 computer games from interactive fiction pioneer Infocom, and the top 6 winners of the 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition, released in 1996.
It was available as a single cross-platform CD-ROM, which included PDFs of all the Infocom games' instructions, maps, and hint booklets. Infocom was closed in 1989 by its then-parent company Activision. Still holding the copyright to nearly all the past Infocom titles, Activision.
( 1 reviews ) Topics: Infocom, Masterpieces, Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh. MacWrite was a WYSIWYG word processor application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984.
Together with MacPaint, it was one of the two original 'killer applications' that propelled the adoption and popularity of the GUI in general, and the Mac in particular. When the Mac was first being created, it was clear that users would interact with it differently from other personal computers. Typical computers of the era booted into text-only DOS or BASIC command line. Favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ). Scarab of Ra is a graphic adventure game, long considered one of the classics of Macintosh shareware. Become an archaeology student, following the great explorer Mississippi Smith on his most challenging expedition! Scarab of RA combines a simple point-and-click user interface with a complex, long-lasting, and challenging game.
It features three-dimensional, point-of-view graphics and full on-line help. It has been favorably reviewed in both Macworld and MacUser magazines, and is often selected. Topics: Macintosh, Apple Macintosh, Shareware, Scarab Of Ra.
Developed by Paradigm Creators, Inc. Released 1986 Also For Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, FM-7, PC-88, PC-98 Published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. Perspective Top-down Setting Fantasy Genre Action Gameplay Action RPG, Puzzle elements Visual 2D scrolling Description Gemstone Warrior is an action game with adventure elements. Players work their way through an underground catacomb, doing three things at once. First they need to find five pieces of a gemstone, spread throughout the maze. This Internet Archive emulated Macintosh item contains two disk images; one 25MB boot volume with Macintosh System 7.5.3 installed, plus HyperCard 2.4 and Simpletext, and one 45MB Macintosh disk image containing a folder full of HyperCard stacks. Note: If icons within any given folder are piled on top of each other so as you can't see what they are or what the contents of the folder are, go to the 'View' menu in the toolbar and select 'By Name' to list the contents of folder.
Topics: Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh, HyperCard. The Dungeon Revealed is a popular dungeon crawl computer game created by John Raymonds and published by Woodrose Editions in 1987. A demo and shareware version of the game entitled The Dungeon of Doom were released in 1986 and 1987 respectively to promote the commercial release of 'The Dungeon Revealed' which came in 1987. Both were released for Mac OS, and were compatible with versions as late as System 7. 'The Dungeon Revealed' can still be played with Mac OS 10.4.10 in.
Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: The Dungeon Revealed, Macintosh, Apple macintosh, Shareware. 'I've just spent a cheerful hour of my time writing a program on my computer that will tell me instantly what the volume of the mound was. It's a very neat and sexy program with all sorts of pop-up menus and things, and the advantage of doing it the way I have is that on any future occasion on which I need to know the volume of a megapode nest, given its basic dimensions, my computer will give me the answer in less than a second, which is a wonderful saving of time. The downside, I.
Topics: Megapode, Douglas Adams, last Chance To See, Macintosh, Apple Mac. This Internet Archive emulated item contains a 10MB Macintosh formatted disk image with an install of Mac System 7.0.1. From Wikipedia: System 7 (codenamed 'Big Bang' and sometimes retrospectively called Mac OS 7 ) is a single-user graphical user interface -based operating system for Macintosh computers and was part of the classic Mac OS line of operating systems. It was introduced on May 13, 1991, by Apple Computer. 1 It succeeded System 6, and was the main Macintosh operating. Topics: Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh.
Sid Meier’s Pirates! Is a video game created by Sid Meier and developed and published by MicroProse in 1987. It was the first game to include the name 'Sid Meier' in its title as an effort by MicroProse to attract fans of Meier's earlier games, most of which were combat vehicle simulation video games. The game is a simulation of the life of a pirate, a privateer, or a pirate hunter in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Is set in the Caribbean. Playing field. Topics: Sid Meier, Pirates, Macintosh, Apple Mac.
Macintosh Basic, or MacBASIC, was both a comprehensive programming language and a fully interactive development environment designed by Apple Inc. For the original Macintosh computer.
It was developed by original Macintosh team member Donn Denman, with help from fellow Apple programmers Marianne Hsiung, Larry Kenyon, and Bryan Stearns,as part of the original Macintosh development effort starting in late 1981. MacBASIC was released as beta software in 1985, and was adopted for use in places such.NOTE. This game has a copy protection feature. When you start a game, you will be asked to enter a code, scans of the four codesheets are here: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4. SimCity lets you be the mayor of a city. Through careful planning, you can watch your city grow from a small village to a thriving metropolis.
While SimCity 2000 was miles ahead of its precursor, the original SimCity still provides plenty of fun, and will even run on a Mac Plus. SimCity was published in 1989. Topics: SimCity, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh.USAGE NOTE: System sound is set at zero on boot, so before launching the game, open the Sound Control Panel via the Apple Menu and turn volume up! This is a, hopefully, temporary bug. Please be advised that updated versions of Spelunx, Cosmic Osmo, and The Manhole for modern operating systems are available to purchase at the Steam Store, so please consider doing so; 'A magical, open-ended children's world, designed by the brothers who. Topics: The Manhole, Macintosh, Apple, Apple Mac, HyperCard. Install diskwarrior on usb.
MS BASIC for Macintosh was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC for Macintosh. It was one of the first Microsoft BASIC variants to have optional line numbering, predating QuickBASIC. It was provided in two versions, one with standard binary floating point and another with decimal arithmetic. Microsoft BASIC is the foundation product of the Microsoft company. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first BASIC by Microsoft and the first high level programming language available for the. II in a Mac was the first Apple II emulator.
The emulator ran on a 512K Mac and was released in November 1985. Initially it could run Apple II+ programs, but later evolved to include IIc and IIe software. This was long before the appearance of the 1991 Apple IIe Card for the Mac LC. The emulator was created by Computer Applications, Inc., based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company still seems to exist.
User Manual - 45pp (17mb; high resolution PDF) ' Emulator Lets Apple II Programs Run. Favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Apple II, Mac, Macintosh, Emulator. Ken Winograd is President and Founder of Space-Time Associates, a Merrimack, New Hampshire computer consulting company. In addition to computer and Internet consulting, Winograd is a programming specialist, who has authored programs such as TinyBooks Pro, Hangman Pro, Brickles Pro as well as a growing number of shareware, freeware and commercial programs Prior to founding Space-Time Associates in 1982, Winograd held various positions in the computer industry as Test Design Engineer, Software. Favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ).USAGE NOTE: System sound is set at zero on boot, so before launching the game, open the Sound Control Panel via the Apple Menu and turn volume up!
This is a, hopefully, temporary bug. Please be advised that updated versions of Spelunx, Cosmic Osmo, and The Manhole for modern operating systems are available to purchase at the Steam Store, so please consider doing so; Cosmic Osmo was created by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller, who went on to. Topics: Cosmic Osmo, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction video game based on the comedic science fiction series of the same name. It was designed by series creator Douglas Adams and Infocom's Steve Meretzky, and was first released in 1984 for the Apple II, Macintosh, Commodore 64, CP/M, MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari 8-bit family and Atari ST. It is Infocom's fourteenth game. The game loosely mirrors a portion of the series' plot, representing most of the events in the first book.
Arthur Dent wakes. Topics: Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams, Macintosh, Apple Macintosh. Developed by Ann Arbor Softworks, Inc. Released 1985 Platform Macintosh Published by Ann Arbor Softworks, Inc. Perspective Behind view Setting Sci-Fi / Futuristic Genre Action Gameplay Arcade, Shooter Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description At Alphie's Galactic Bar and Grill humans are not welcome. According to house rules those who enter has to compete in an electronic game called Grid Wars.
If the player wins, the reward is to buy drinks to everyone in the bar and if he loses he's thrown out. 'Battle Chess is a quite typical chess game, but it comes with a twist: all pieces are represented by small, realistic figures that walk around on the chessboard, and when one piece takes another, they both take part in an animated battle. There is a different animation for each permutation, depending on which pieces are capturing or being captured. You can also play in 2D without animation. The game's opening library includes 30,000 different moves, ensuring a variety of games will unfold. Topics: Battle Chess, Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh. 'Everything you love about Monopoly is now here for the Mac.
Classic Monopoly is a mouse click away as you engage in the pursuit of great fortunes. With computer enhanced graphics and billions of different dice sequences it's never the same game twice. Wheel and deal against the supreme game challenger, your Mac. Or play with up to eight players, in this ultimate computer version of the best selling boardgame of all time. The thrill of buying and selling railroads and properties.
Favorite favorite favorite ( 2 reviews ) Topics: Apple Mac, Apple, Mac, Macintosh, Monopoly, MacPlay. SuperPaint was a graphics program capable of both bitmap painting and vector drawing.
It was originally written by William Snider, published by Silicon Beach Software, and originally released in 1986 for the Apple Macintosh. William Snider wrote and designed the program from his house on an Apple Lisa in Pascal (programming language). SuperPaint was one of the first programs of its kind, combining the features of MacPaint and MacDraw. Later versions were published by Aldus until about. Topics: SuperPaint, Apple Mac, Macintosh. Lemmings is a puzzle - platformer video game originally developed by DMA Design and first published by Psygnosis for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC in 1991. The game was programmed by Mike Dailly and David Jones, and was inspired by a simple animation that Dailly created while experimenting with Deluxe Paint.
The objective of the game is to guide a group of anthropomorphised lemmings through a number of obstacles to a designated exit. To save the required number of lemmings to win, one must.
Topics: Lemmings, Oh No! More Lemmings, Macintosh, Apple Mac. This Internet Archive emulated Macintosh item contains several versions of classic Macintosh games The Dungeon of Doom and The Dungeon Revealed. The Dungeon Revealed is a dungeon crawl computer game created by John Raymonds and published by Woodrose Editions in 1987. A demo and shareware version of the game entitled The Dungeon of Doom were released in 1986 and 1987 respectively to promote the commercial release of 'The Dungeon Revealed' which came in 1987.
Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 2 reviews ) Topics: Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh, Dungeon of Doom, The Dungeon Revealed. 'With $100000 in the bank after taking out loans and selling stocks, it's time to start a railroad! Choose from 4 scenarios across two continents with randomly generated resources, and design your own railroad that moves people and goods across the country. Use the revenue to continue expanding, while keeping control of your company and appeasing your stock holders with growth and revenues. Play the stock market with company assets. Drive your competitors out of business with buyouts.
Topics: Railroad Tycoon, Macintosh, Sid Meier, Apple Mac. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program for teaching touch typing. The typing program was initially released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks and has been published regularly ever since. Softphone for pc. The original version was written for MSDOS by Norm Worthington, Walt Bilofsky, and Mike Duffy.1 Editions of Mavis Beacon are currently published by Encore Software (hybrid Mac and Windows) and Software MacKiev (Mac OS X only) and are available throughout the retail sales world.
Favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Mavis Beacon, Macintosh, Apple Mac.USAGE NOTE: System sound is set at zero on boot, so before launching the game, open the Sound Control Panel via the Apple Menu and turn volume up! This is a, hopefully, temporary bug. Please be advised that updated versions of Spelunx, Cosmic Osmo, and The Manhole for modern operating systems are available to purchase at the Steam Store, so please consider doing so; Spelunx and the Caves of Mr. Seudo was an educational computer game.
Favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Spelunx, Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh, Cyan. Writes Penthouse -type letters automatically.
This includes both Porno Writer 2.0 and Pretty Good Pornography 3.0, an upgraded version released in 1994. WORLD DOOMED!!! PGP 3 RELEASED In yet another sign of the impending apocalypse, Lamprey Systems today announced the release of PGP 3 (Pretty Good Pornography 3.0 ).
The program, a major upgrade of Lamprey Systems' Porno Writer 2.0, randomly produces Penthouse Forum-type letters ranging in content from the merely obscene to the patently absurd. Favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Porno Writer, Mac, Macintosh, Apple Mac. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a graphic adventure based on the film. It was the third game to use the SCUMM engine and the first to include the verbs 'Look' and 'Talk'. 'Not as good graphics as The Fate of Atlantis, and much shorter overall, but still a great game. There's a lot of humor to find, both in dialogue and the cute little messages that appear when you die or get captured.
Also, from about the middle of the game onwards, you'll often get to choose how to overcome. Topics: Apple, Macintosh, Mac, Indiana Jones, LucasArts. This Internet Archive emulated Macintosh item contains two disk images; one 25MB boot volume with Macintosh System 7.5.3 installed, plus HyperCard 2.4 and Simpletext, and one 35MB Macintosh disk image containing a folder full of HyperCard stacks. Note: If icons within any given folder are piled on top of each other so as you can't see what they are or what the contents of the folder are, go to the 'View' menu in the toolbar and select 'By Name' to list the contents of folder.
Topics: Apple, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh, HyperCard.WARNING. This emulated Internet Archive item contains a 250MB Macintosh disk image. Be prepared for a big download! The disk image will take a while to mount to the emulated desktop once booted, so please be patient!
BMUG was an education non-profit corporation which promoted the exchange of information about graphical interface computers, including the Apple Macintosh. Located in Berkeley, California, BMUG provided valuable services to computer users in the San Francisco Bay Area. Topics: BMUG, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh, HyperCard.
A collection of four officially-lecensed text-adventure games based on the works of JRR Tolkien. Manuals and maps are included in this item as PDFs. The Hobbit: 'Relive Tolkien's The Hobbit as Bilbo Baggins. A piece of Interactive fiction (with graphics to illustrate locations), you follow the plot of Tolkien's book (before the Lord of the Rings trilogy), starting with an encounter with Gandalf and Thorin. The implementation is rich enough that you can play entirely without pictures if you.
Favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Apple, Apple Mac, Macintosh, Lord Of The Rings, Tolkien. 'Glider has a very simple concept, as many early Mac games did, but it was brilliantly executed and is still enjoyable to play today. I realised yesterday that I love the feel of old games like Glider because you can tell that they made the graphics on a computer not that dissimilar to the one you're playing it on! You can see all the familiar MacPaint patterns in the graphics - check out the 'brick' pattern wearing through the wall (with a bit of the spray-paint tool for good measure) in. Topics: Glider, Mac, Apple Mac, Macintosh.
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
Download 7-Zip 19.00 (2019-02-21) for Windows:
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Download 7-Zip 20.00 alpha (2020-02-06) for Windows:
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License
7-Zip is free software with open source. The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License. Also there is unRAR license restriction for some parts of the code. Read 7-Zip License information.
You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.
The main features of 7-Zip
- High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
- Supported formats:
- Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
- Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
- For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
- Self-extracting capability for 7z format
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Powerful File Manager
- Powerful command line version
- Plugin for FAR Manager
- Localizations for 87 languages
7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT.
p7zip - the port of the command line version of 7-Zip to Linux/Posix.
On 7-Zip's SourceForge Page you can find a forum, bug reports, and feature request systems.
Compression ratio
We compared 7-Zip with WinRAR 5.20.
FILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 34.0.5 for Windows and Google Earth 6.2.2.6613 for Windows.
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65 files 85 280 391 bytes | 483 files 110 700 519 bytes | |||
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7-Zip 9.35 -mx | 39 357 375 | 100% | 15 964 369 | 100% |
WinRAR 5.20 -m5 -s -ma5 -md128m | 41 789 543 | 106% | 17 035 432 | 107% |
Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.