.bin images?

[bilbomacuser]

Hi,

I kept a load of old 68K Mac images which are in various formats, and not sure how to use them! I have a set of British 7.5.3 install disks which are named .smi.bin and .part.bin but not sure how to make them usable?

Ideally I would like to get them readable by Basilisk II so that I can install them into a hard drive image for the BlueSCSI.

Any idea where I should start?

Thanks

 

[Nixontheknight]

Just get rid of the .bin in the filename in any modern OS

 

[olePigeon]

.bin is MacBinary encoded (similar to BinHex.) They need to be decoded. I don't recall if Apple's built in archive utility can do it, but I believe Unarchiver can. You can also use Stuffit Expander.

 

[MrFahrenheit]

.bin is MacBinary encoded (similar to BinHex.) They need to be decoded. I don't recall if Apple's built in archive utility can do it, but I believe Unarchiver can. You can also use Stuffit Expander.

To add to this, .smi means it’s a “self mounting image”, referring to it being an application that launches and mounts an image on the desktop, as opposed to being a raw disk image itself.

To open and mount the SMI, you’ll need a PowerPC or 68k Mac, running System 7 through Classic OS 9 (under OS X 10.0-10.4.11).

 

[olePigeon]

To add to this, .smi means it’s a “self mounting image”, referring to it being an application that launches and mounts an image on the desktop, as opposed to being a raw disk image itself.

To add to this added to this, a .part is like it sounds: it's part of a .smi file. Disk Copy has a nifty feature where you can break up a single, large disk image into many small parts, with the idea that you could fit a large image file onto multiple floppy disks.