Create floppy from sit and sea.bin files on System 6

[ioncehadamac]

Greetings!

I was lucky enough to find a cool SCSI to SD device that I can use instead of my hard drive on the Mac SE. I am awaiting for the device to be delivered, but I did realize that I have no clue about how old image files would work.

The objective is to make System 6 floppy disks using the SE; I did find the files as 800k images, but they are sea.bin format.

There are also other images that I did find on the free archives, like paint 2.0 and the SE tour disk; but they are in .sit format.

Last but not list, I did find stuffit expander image, but yet again, this image is in another format, as .bin only.

Now; I did read somewhere while searching, that you can create floppy from images (sea, sit); so I am pretty much close to get a full set of real floppy for my SE; but I can't find anywhere a procedure that show me how to make floppy disks on my SE, using System 6. Could you please tell me how do you actually make these images as floppy? my HD boot, so I am planning to use the SCSI-to-SD device to put the various images on it, and dump them on the SE hard drive; but this is where I stop and don't know what to do next, to get the images on real floppy disks.

 

[CharlieFrown]

do you have an access do Windows PC ? I used TransMac to copy self extracting archives (.bin?) to floppy and funny thing is they were visible as executable files on Mac side. 

The only problem might be 800k limit. 

 

[ioncehadamac]

I do have a pc, I use it with my USB floppy drive to make 720K floppy that I use among my other old computers that have no ethernet capabilities nor USB.

The problem is that a PC drive cannot make variable speed 800K mac disks, which is wjy I am porting the images on the mac itself to make the disks.

Should I get disk copy? I heard that it can make images from floppy, so it must be possible to do the opposite

 

[Compgeke]

You're correct on needing Stuffit Expander, but you'll also want Disk Copy 4.2. With any luck Disk Copy is already on the original hard drive, it'd make life easier. However, you seem to already have an OS on the drive so you can just copy everything to the SCSI2SD once it's installed in the SE by dragging between finder windows and you won't need to bother with floppy disks. 

 

[ioncehadamac]

I see, so the OS works as is, just copying the files on the drive? that is nice.

Is the same also for other applications? I can get the various archives from the websites and move them to the SE via the SCSI2SD, but at the same time I was hoping to be able to make also the floppy as they were originally made.

It does not make much sense from the usage perspective, it is more like a way to retain the original look and feel of the SE. Thanks for the hints!