MacTools (aka MacTools Deluxe) is a suite of utilities and disk
diagnostics software for the Macintosh, including CP DiskFix and
Optimizer.

DL#1: MacTools 3.0a

DL#2: MacTools 2.0 on 800k floppies (as DiskCopy 4.2 images).

DL#3 is "MacTools 6.3", which was actually released in 1986. Early
versions of MacTools carried a version number that matched their
corresponding version of [Copy II Mac][1], thus this version would be
paired with Copy II Mac 6.3. This download has been put onto an MFS-
formatted floppy disk image that boots into System 2.0.

DL#4: MacTools 3.0 800k DiskCopy images.

DL#5: MacTools 1.2 800k DiskCopy images. Disk 3 is Optimizer Boot Disk

DL#6: MacTools 3.0 An incomplete set, missing Disk 1. Includes
DiskCopy 4.2 images of disks 2, 3 and 4. The files on the disk have a
date of October 1993.

DL#7: MacTools 2.0 A complete set of Mac Tools 2.0, from the summer of
1992. Archived in DiskCopy 4.2 format.

DL#7: MacTools 4.3, 5.2 and 6.3 (Old numbering system) In a hqx
wrapped self extracting Compact Pro archive.

See also
[MacTools Pro][2]

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Minimum system requirements: Mac Plus w/4MB RAM, System 6.0.5.

mrdav: "Below are some comments I prepared some time ago about version
2 (I have not tried version 3)":

> At the time of release (1992) version 2.0 was in direct competition
> with Norton Utilities 2.0. MacTools runs on a Mac Plus or higher
> with SSW 6.0.5 or higher, including SSW 7. It seems to require 2 MB
> of RAM, even under System 6.0.5. The ReadMe refers to SSW 7.0, 7.0.1
> and SSW 7 TuneUp 1.1.1 so version 2 of MacTools may not work
> perfectly with later versions of SSW 7. Indeed, I have found, for
> SSW 7.5.5 on a 68040 CPU with no additional extensions apart from
> those for MacTools, that I had to disable the CP Mirror Control
> Panel to avoid a severe freeze of the Mac (I had to turn the power
> off) when I tried to open an application. After removing the Mirror
> Control Panel, the MacTools applications seemed to run OK.

Most of the modules in version 1.2 work in mini vMac (both as MacPlus
and Mac II), except for Backup (which seems to require a real floppy
drive) and Rescue (which bombs, at least in SSW 7.5.5).

  [1]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/copy-ii-mac
  [2]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mactools-pro

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