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Non bootable bin files (apple mac os 6.0.2-7.5.2 Greek Lang)

robin-fo

Well-known member
They are MacBinary encoded. On a modern Mac, you can decode them using Archive Utility. You could also import the files into Mini vMac and unpack them using binUnpk.

Good luck!
 

soneigr

Member
They are MacBinary encoded. On a modern Mac, you can decode them using Archive Utility. You could also import the files into Mini vMac and unpack them using binUnpk.

Good luck!
Good evening my friend can you be a little clearer? I'm not old enough to know. So let's take it one step at a time from the beginning. First of all, how can I decompress them on a sync mac? secondly how can i insert them into the vMac Mini and decompress them over there?
 

cheesestraws

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Windows PC But I also have a macbook pro M1 CPU.

OK. If you download them on your Mac and just double-click on them, they should unencode from .bin files to .img files. I just did it here and that worked (though I am using an older version of OS X, but I think it works in new versions)
 

soneigr

Member
OK. If you download them on your Mac and just double-click on them, they should unencode from .bin files to .img files. I just did it here and that worked (though I am using an older version of OS X, but I think it works in new versions)
Which program will I need to download to unzip them on my macbook pro? And after their decompression, what will I do, will I throw them in the vmac mini and will they boot?
 

cheesestraws

Well-known member
Which program will I need to download to unzip them on my macbook pro?

The built-in dearchiver should do it. If it doesn't, then get The Unarchiver.

And after their decompression, what will I do, will I throw them in the vmac mini and will they boot?

Should do, though not all the System 6 discs have System Folders, so not all are bootable. Boot from the first disc.
 

soneigr

Member
The built-in dearchiver should do it. If it doesn't, then get The Unarchiver.



Should do, though not all the System 6 discs have System Folders, so not all are bootable. Boot from the first disc.
Will The Unarchiver do it for sure? Any other program for more chances?
 

robin-fo

Well-known member
The Unarchiver is also great to extract .sit archives which you are likely to encounter when downloading old mac software. On a vintage mac (or inside an emulator like Mini vMac), you would need StuffIt Expander instead.
 

robin-fo

Well-known member
By the way, it appears to me that some of the image files you are mentioning above are corrupted, so they won't boot even after extraction.
 

soneigr

Member
By the way, it appears to me that some of the image files you are mentioning above are corrupted, so they won't boot even after extraction.
When you say damaged files, do you mean that they will be destroyed over time and over time? are not recovered?
 

robin-fo

Well-known member
I don't know how they were damaged, this can maybe happen when being stored on a damaged device like a scratched CD or a bad flash drive. It would be difficult or impossible to restore them.
 

soneigr

Member
Good evening, I bring this issue back for more help because some files seem to have been decompressed with the above program on my macbook pro m1, but some file extensions do not open with the vmac mini as they are in .image, .img format. I gathered them all here for someone who wants to download them, edit them with some bass program and can help me and upload them again in one of his own clouds to get them ready and work. I have a macintosh centris 650 and I would like to pass a Greek operating system on it. I have blank diskettes.
 
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