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<i> <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/index.html">www.gryphel.com</a>/c/<a href="index.html">minivmac</a>/sit_alt
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Stuffit Expander
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Alternatives
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Alternatives if you can't use Stuffit Expander on your computer
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(or don't wish to install it), when following the
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<a href="start.html">Getting started with Mini vMac</a>
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instructions:
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The simplest alternative is to use the computer of
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a friend that has it installed.
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<p> You can use an old Macintosh to expand it (i.e. such
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as your Macintosh Plus.)
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The file “SSW_6.0.8-1.4MB_Disk1of2.sea.bin”
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contains a Macintosh file encoded
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in MacBinary format, preserving Macintosh specific information.
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You can use a program such as
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"<a href="extras/binunpk/index.html">binUnpk</a>" to
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extract the program “SSW 6.0.8-1.4MB Disk1of2.sea”.
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This program is a Stuffit Self Extracting Archive. Running it
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on an old Macintosh will get a disk image
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file named “System Startup”. </p>
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<p> Instead of a real Macintosh, you can use the program Executor,
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which can run some 680x0 Macintosh software without
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requiring any software from Apple. Though it is no
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longer developed or supported, it currently may be downloaded for free.
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It comes with StuffIt Expander 4.0.1 which can extract
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the program “SSW 6.0.8-1.4MB Disk1of2.sea” from
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“SSW_6.0.8-1.4MB_Disk1of2.sea.bin”, and then
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“SSW 6.0.8-1.4MB Disk1of2.sea” can be run to
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get the disk image “System Startup”. </p>
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<p> If you happen to have any sort of disk image that can boot
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Mini vMac (i.e. containing system 7.5.5 or earlier), then
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you can use Mini vMac to extract the archive, to get
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a clean copy of official Apple system software. You
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will need a large enough blank disk image (see
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“<a href="extras/blanks/index.html">Blanks</a>”),
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<a href="extras/importfl/index.html">ImportFl</a> to import the '.bin' file,
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<a href="extras/binunpk/index.html">binUnpk</a> to decode the '.bin' file
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(to get the '.sea' file that you run), and
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<a href="extras/exportfl/index.html">ExportFl</a> to get the extracted disk image back to
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the host computer. </p>
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<p> “Samir” points out that
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<a href="http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html">The Unarchiver</a>,
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a free and open source utility for OS X,
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“can extract .sea files as well as .bin files and a lot
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of other archive formats”.
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<p> “Bjoern” points out another alternative for Intel Macs.
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<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/system/sys70/index.html">System 7.0.1</a>
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is available from Apple in '.smi.bin' format. '.bin' can be
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decoded by any Mac version of StuffIt Expander, and probably
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other programs as well. This results in an '.smi' file that can
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be opened in OS X, mounting a disk image that contains 6
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disk images that can be used in Mini vMac. </p>
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<p> Previous versions of the getting started page recommended using
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“<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/system/sys60/index.html">SSW_6.0.8-800k_Disk1of4.sea.bin</a>” through
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“SSW_6.0.8-800k_Disk4of4.sea.bin”, which have
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the same system 6.0.8 software, and which are also
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available from the Apple.
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Thanks to Ryan Schmidt for pointing out that these 800k disk
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images are packaged as
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiskDoubler">DiskDoubler</a>
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Self Extracting Archives, which can not be expanded
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with Stuffit Expander, while the 1.4MB disk images
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are packaged as Stuffit Self Extracting Archives, and
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can be.
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The 1.4MB images can not be used with a real Mac Plus,
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but the emulated Mac Plus of Mini vMac can use them, because
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of the replacement disk driver. </p>
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<i> <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/index.html">www.gryphel.com</a>/c/<a href="index.html">minivmac</a>/sit_alt
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copyright (c) 2017 Paul C. Pratt - last update 7/19/2017
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