Raiders of the Lost Icon (RotLI) is an adventure application for macOS 10.15 Catalina and up. With it, you’ll uncover long-forgotten icons in the depths of dusty disk images and bring them back to the light of day for the first time in decades.
Icons are art.
They belong in a museum.
Download
macOS 10.15 and up
Download it here: Raiders of the Lost Icon
RotLI runs natively on Intel and Apple Silicon machines. It supports Dark Mode. It has been notarized by Apple so you know there won’t be any weird shenanigans. And it never writes anything to the disk images you give it, so your data is safe.
Check out the Release Notes and the Help pages.
RotLI is entirely free, but you can always buy me a coffee if you want:
If you like it, say hi on Twitter, on Mastodon or send an e-mail to dj at onegeekarmy.eu (in one word). I’m OneGeekArmy#1358 on Discord.
How does it work?
1. Drag and drop a disk image
Any classic Macintosh disk image will do, as long as it’s not compressed. This could be the image of a hard drive, a floppy, a CD or even the ROM of an old machine that you have encountered on the Internet by total mistake.
We’ve tried install floppies, hard drive images we use with BlueSCSI, CD-ROM images, and possibly a ROM or two but we can’t quite recall.
RotLI will show you the contents of your image as if all it contained was icons.
2. Scroll through millions of little pictures
When you find an icon, bookmark it for posterity. You can look for icons big and small, in black and white, 16 and 256 colors.
3. Bring your icons back to civilization!
Once bookmarked, enjoy your newfound treasure:
In a 3D view
As an image (PNG, BMP of TIFF)
As text, to impress your friends on your BBS or Hotline server!
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As a USDZ file, for use in Augmented Reality or as a DAE file (Collada) for 3D modeling
As an SVG file, for infinite resolution
All this and a lot more is explained in the Help pages.
Here’s a quick “First Steps” video to get you started:
A bug to report? An enhancement to suggest?
Raiders of the Lost Icon has a dedicated page on GitHub where you can report bugs or suggest new features.
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