Floppies in .bin format?

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Re: Floppies in .bin format?

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You must be windows folk. In modern Mac, it still can expand bin.
In windows, the easy way is to unpack it in System 6 vmac by bin unpack program and then export it. Find them in vmac sites.
There is an App for that!
https://github.com/rickyzhang82
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Re: Floppies in .bin format?

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These are probably MacBinary-encoded images. You can unpack them using unar (the Windows command-line version of The Unarchiver); afterwards, everything should be able to recognize them.
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Re: Floppies in .bin format?

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Zacchi4k wrote:
Jorpho wrote:These are probably MacBinary-encoded images. You can unpack them using unar (the Windows command-line version of The Unarchiver); afterwards, everything should be able to recognize them.
I tried it and it gave me a .rsrc file and another file without extension. None of them works
If it is indeed an archived image file, the .rsrc file should not be important and the file without extension should be mountable in BasiliskII by adding it to the volumes list in the GUI. Where did you get the files from?
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Re: Floppies in .bin format?

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I suppose they could be self-mounting images, in which case I don't think unar will help you.

Since you have a bootable System 7 disk, try copying the .bin files to your System 7 disk, and then unpacking them with Stuffit Expander.

Alternatively, since you have HFV Explorer, you should be able to copy the .bin files to your System 7 disk that way, as described in http://www.gryphel.com/c/image/ .
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Re: Floppies in .bin format?

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I seem to recall that an Italian 7.6.X is included with the Mac Antology DVDs.
Max1zzz has the `99 and `00/`01 collections on his private server.
http://macintoshgarden.org/forum/max1zz ... mac-server

Maybe better to get things rolling with an untouched copy from DVD. :)
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Re: Floppies in .bin format?

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Here is a quick-and-dirty to extract the data fork out of a MacBin file on a Windows PC. It does not restore the original dates as I can't find info of the date format used as yet.

Please let me know of any problem.

http://www.retroprograms.com/temp/DeMacBin2016.zip

Usual dire warnings apply about no-resource-forks.
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Re: Floppies in .bin format?

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peter_j wrote:Here is a quick-and-dirty to extract the data fork out of a MacBin file on a Windows PC.
That is precisely what unar is supposed to do.
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Re: Floppies in .bin format?

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Jorpho wrote:
peter_j wrote:Here is a quick-and-dirty to extract the data fork out of a MacBin file on a Windows PC.
That is precisely what unar is supposed to do.
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Re: Floppies in .bin format?

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There's your solution then: set up the image in Mini vMac and then deploy it in BII :)
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