How do I get these games to work? Please help!

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2011, September 5 - 4:39pm

dlindner999

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How do I get these games to work? Please help!

Ok, so I created my MiniVMac using the guide, and I have been able to get one game to play, (Beyond Dark Castle), by extracting the contents of the zip file, and then renaming the resulting .toast file to .bin. Which I only figured out how to do after hunting around the internet for half an hour. However, I have tried several other games without any luck. I have Dark Castle and Shufflepuck Cafe, both of which came in .sit files. I used stuffit expander in windows to extract the files, but the resulting files are just raw files. I can't do anything with them. I tried putting them into my mac image but I can't open them in vmac (or don't know how).

So I thought maybe I'm supposed to extract them inside miniVmac with THAT version of stuffit. But that version of stuffit can't open a .sit file.

I even tried taking the files from the sit file that I extracted and zipping them into a Bin file using Poweriso and that didn't work either. So I don't get it. What the hell do I do with these files!?!? Please help, I'm stuck. Why can't some damn instructions be included with these files or something?

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2011, September 5 - 7:00pm

24bit

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Someone sure can convert some files in disk images to be mounted with MiniVMac.
Files of the type IMG, HFV or DSK can simply be dragged onto the running MiniVMac screen.
MiniVMacs opens the volumes and mounts them for you.
What is your host OS and what kind of compressed files can you open?

2011, September 5 - 10:35pm

MCP

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http://macintoshgarden.org/guides

2011, September 6 - 12:29pm

24bit

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Although MCP is right, most everything was said and done already, I made a 7Zip file for you to try:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OID5K8QW
Assuming you are on Windows, you should be able to inflate and use the IMG easily. The dot-something files can be ignored, just drag Test.img onto the running MiniVMac screen.

Quite a few files archived on MG are not readable with MiniVMac by design. DiskCopy images are the way to go, as those can be read by many Macs or Mac emulators. If you want to dive into that, set up Sheepshaver on your host system. With the Shaver you can open most files on MG and create your own IMG files for MiniVMac with DiskCopy6. SheepShaver will also run many newer games.
Have fun!

2011, September 6 - 1:13pm

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and then renaming the resulting .toast file to .bin

Althought, if you install a CD driver software inside Mini vMac (for Mac OS versions prior to 7.5), you can mount .cdr (.toast, ...) images by drag & drop, too.

2011, September 6 - 1:36pm

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dlindner999

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@24bit, I'm running Windows XP and I have a few programs like 7zip for handling compressed files that usually get the job done.
Thanks very much for the image with those 3 games. They seem to be working.

@MCP, I actually DID set up my miniVmac per the guide you referred to, so I'm not sure what else to do, other than ask again here if I want someone to create me another .img file instead of a .sit.

2011, September 6 - 3:12pm

24bit

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Glad to hear you made it.
If you would like some more files in IMG containers, don´t hesitate to ask for them.
Clockwise has a nice collection of System6 games in DSK files here:
http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/system_6_hell

2011, September 6 - 2:38pm

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Never unstuff Mac binaries with StuffIt Expander on Windows. Mac files have two halves: the data fork (containing code) and the resource fork (containing everything else, such as text strings, graphics, and sound). When you extract Mac binaries on Windows, the resource fork gets discarded, breaking the program.

The hardest part about emulating a Mac is setting up StuffIt Expander, since 9 times out of 10 the host platform won't support Mac binaries properly. So let's cheat! Scroll down this page to the "Installing Mac OS" part and download the starter disk image. It contains a minimal copy of System 7.5.5 (the newest version that will run on a Plus) and StuffIt Expander 5.5. You *might* have to set up Basilisk II to run Expander 5.5. I'm not sure, it's been a while since I tried running it on vMac.
http://www.emaculation.com/articles/intro.html

Go back to the Mini vMac site and download ImportFl and ExportFl:
http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/extras/importfl.html
http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/extras/exportfl.html

Extract the .zip files to get at the floppy images within. These utilities are the easiest way to get files into and out of an emulated Mac environment (aside from FTP, but Mini vMac doesn't support Ethernet networking). Run ImportFl, and drag your archives onto the Mini vMac window like you would a disk image. A standard Mac "Save As..." dialog will appear.

Now you should be set to unpack just about everything on this site!

2011, September 11 - 1:40am

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Stuffit 5.5 won't work in Mini vMac. At all.

So that means that 24bit speaks the truth... a lot of the archives on this site simply cannot be expanded in Mini vMac since they require Stuffit. So take bicostp's advice: set up Basilisk II in order to install Stuffit 5.5. You can even try running the games in Basilisk II. They might be playable there.