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

[trenoparathyra95]

Good evening I discovered the problem because the file does not boot. The reason is that these files are in bin format so the program cannot recognize them as a floppy disk. How can i convert them to img and bootble ?
end in .bin
The program (Mini vMac) cannot recognize them and read them as an img boot disk.
The archives I downloaded and say are here for you to look for:

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... a20eef4f7d

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... db4ea0b05b

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... d12d4e9aee

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... 21f7362d84

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... f904501454

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... 2a58c8683c

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... 91481d5923

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... 998f07b5f9

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... 5e910b43ea

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... c91e9662dd

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... a8ff876d4e

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... 907ee339bc

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... 996a5216d4

https://www.betaarchive.com/database/vi ... bf074a3cd6

Any help or advice welcome.

[Neptruo314]

Try renaming it to .img. That might help.
Alternatively, try searching somewhere other than the database.

[yksoft1]

Try use Stuffit Expander.
If Stuffit Expander extracts it to unbootable disk images, they are probably Disk Copy 6.x Compressed disk images or self-mounting disk images that cannot be stored in non-Mac filesystems. You will have to extract them in Classic Mac OS or Mac OS X.

[trenoparathyra95]

This program works for windows that I can find and how exactly do I export the files? i have a macbook air will it help to do it better than windows?

[rbshep]

Use 'The Unarchiver' app or the macbinary command in the terminal to decode the BIN files back to plain disk image files.

https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/manag ... e-terminal

If they are a straight dump of the floppy disk, then Mini VMac should be fine with them once decoded.

I would suggest opening them in Disk Utility, but apparently modern macOS only supports HFS+ these days, not HFS. If they are MFS you're definitely out of luck mounting them on anything modern (I think 7.5.x was the last system to support this format).

[ardweebno]

Use 'The Unarchiver' app or the macbinary command in the terminal to decode the BIN files back to plain disk image files.

https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/manag ... e-terminal

If they are a straight dump of the floppy disk, then Mini VMac should be fine with them once decoded.

I would suggest opening them in Disk Utility, but apparently modern macOS only supports HFS+ these days, not HFS. If they are MFS you're definitely out of luck mounting them on anything modern (I think 7.5.x was the last system to support this format).

Actually, before we start trying the gamut of archiving apps, we probably just need to look at the files themselves. If you can grab one of those files and get them to a Linux or OS X machine which has the CLI tool "hexdump" loaded, you can quickly see what those files are. To figure this out, run this command:

hexdump -C yourfile.bin

This tells hexdump to read in the file and covert the output to ASCII character data, which makes it easy to spot resource strings in the binary file. BinHex and Macbinary files have very specific headers at the beginning of the file, which makes it very easy to spot the file type.

[trenoparathyra95]

Good morning we know some easy way where I can run these .bin files on Linux so I can see exactly what the files are and then decompress them or convert them to .img so that they can work with the vMac Mini?
I would please follow the instructions step by step because I am not that ancient.