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ok, i've got two problems and they are on the same page so i figured i could be efficent and put them in to one post. 1st: i noticed that the majority of the macintosh game roms are in .sit format. i tried to decompress "beyond zork.sit" with winzip an 7-zip but neither of them could do it. 2nd: i downloaded "Games_Compilations_8.zip" from the macintosh game page and both winzip and 7-zip said that the file was not a valid file.

try this

http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/sit

or this

http://filext.com/file-extension/SIT

thanks sniper, i now know what a .sit file is but it i still can't get them in to a MAC 2 disk image so i can decompress them.

glad it helped you

well im not a big fan of apple so i don't know about apple emulators and apple related stuff.

im sure HT can land a hand if you ask him.

i did some hunting around the MAC emulation sites and found Stuffit for windows and the program
HFVexplorer. but when i decompressed the SIT files and loaded them to a MAC HDD file, i found the decompressed files were useless. i couldn't even get the readme files to open. this problem is giving me a headache.

i downloaded a different SIT file expander but i'm sitll having the same problem. non of the expanded files
work. can anyone help with this problem?

If you are already using stuffit to look at these then you are in the right direction. It is possible that they were corrupt already. I think it was te_lanus that uploaded these files. I am downloading them now to see if I can find anything with them.

te_lanus, could you have a look at this for me?

thank you HT, any help would be greatly appreciated

it looks like i solved my own problem, or problems. first i messed up the installation of MAC OS 7.5 on one of my HDD images for Basilisk II. second i was going about expanding the SIT files in the wrong way.
so i reinstalled MAC OS 7.5 and installed stuffit expander 5.5 on the HDD image. next i enabled the external
file system fuction of basilisk II in the GUI. then i ran basilisk II and accessed the drive that i had stored the SIT files on. it worked, the icons of the SIT files had changed from useless, meaningless data to fully usable
files that worked perfectly. all i had to do was change the destination file during file expantion and save.
also, i stopped useing stuffit expander for windows and switched to the Aladdin expander 5.0 for windows. stuffit required a regestration number and i felt like if i kept useing it it would stop working after a while.

Good to hear and thanks for letting me know.