11-24-2007, 09:42 PM

hi, so i'm new to the whole mac thing, and i recently downloaded a trial version of i.d. softwares quake 3 team arena for os x, and its in a bin file, is there any way to open this with a program on my mac? its a brand new (10-29-06) mac book pro, intel based. or if i have to download a software to do it, the only one i've found is stuff-it, but i cant even get a trial version without a credit card.
so in short i'm looking for a freeware that can unpack .bin filetypes, other than stuff-it, any input would greatly appreciated. thanks

btw, i havent upgraded to leopard yet. no dinero.
dan

11-24-2007, 09:55 PM

You're looking for Stuffit Expander which is freeware.

11-24-2007, 09:56 PM

Welcome to Mac-forums, volta88.

First of all you can use Stuffit Expander for free, they have a freebie version that will decompress .bin files. Here's the link.

I was looking at the Quake III: Team Arena demo and this is old, man. It's not in Universal Binary so if it runs on your Intel-based Mac, it'll have to be under Rosetta which will make it slow, me thinks. So you might not get to play this anyway.

Good luck.


Edited to add:

That Quake III version I linked you to above won't work (version 8.6 or better). This one might and it's Universal Binary, the website says.

11-25-2007, 10:43 AM

Personally I prefer "the unarchiver" to stuffit.

http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html

11-26-2007, 11:34 AM

yeah, its pretty old school, one of my favorites from "back in the day" so stuffit works great, thanks, but you were right, its not a universal binary so thats a bummer, the link you provided macheadcase is a update for team arena, and its for mac windows and linux, i can't seem to find the whole download anywhere but i.d.'s page, which, like you said isn't a universal binary, so i guess i'll have to do without for a while, thanks for the link to stuffit xpander though, its a slick program.

-dan-

11-26-2007, 11:52 AM

also, this is just a minor little concern but i didn't want to post an entire new thread for it. my macbook likes to bog down really fast when airport is having trouble connecting to a local wireless internet connection, so bad that i'll just turn airport off, does the fact that i have barely any space on my hard drive (5 gigs free) have anything to do with this or is it something else? thanks

-dan-