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Extract icons from pre-OS X mac apps
Posted by: sega dude on 2016-09-27 17:54:07
I have some games that I would like to extract the app icon from. How can I do this? Can it be done with Resedit? If so, how?

Posted by: Elfen on 2016-09-27 18:34:44
ResEdit -> ICON Resource. Also in the PICT Resources. They are there...

But, if they are from games, they happened to be copyrighted images being inside copyrighted software. Just saying.

Posted by: olePigeon on 2016-09-28 13:53:04
The icon resources are usually named ic14, ic18, ICN#, ics#, ics4, and ics8.  They're occasionally in cicn or PICT.

Posted by: mrpippy on 2016-09-28 15:14:19
Rezilla is a resource editor that will run on OS X Intel. Also, GraphicConverter (at least older versions) can open any file with a resource fork and display/export the PICT and icon resources.

Posted by: MinerAl on 2016-10-01 09:20:47
If you have a pre OS X machine, you can Get Info about the app, select the icon in the upper left corner and command-C copy it, then paste it into your image-editor of choice.

Posted by: CC_333 on 2016-10-01 18:46:31
That works in OS X too.

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