Need Help Downloading

[rhodest]

Im new to mac and like it so far, but am having trouble downloading things. Whenever I download a game or something, it saves it as either .dmg.bin or .bin or .exe or .sitx and I can't open any of them. When I open them up it tells me to choose an application to open it, but all of them are in text. Is there a certain application that I need to download to open these files?

 

[mad jew]

Sorry but Macs are hopeless when it comes to games. Make sure you get the Mac version of a game (assuming it's legal and there is actually a Mac version) before downloading.

 

[skubish]

Im new to mac and like it so far, but am having trouble downloading things. Whenever I download a game or something, it saves it as either .dmg.bin or .bin or .exe or .sitx and I can't open any of them. When I open them up it tells me to choose an application to open it, but all of them are in text. Is there a certain application that I need to download to open these files?

No those files .dmg.bin, .bin or .sitx are compressed files. You need to you a program like StuffIt to extract them. .exe is a Windows extension which is probably not compatible with Mac.

 

[mad jew]

Most of the compressed files will automatically download though. But yeah, Stuffit is a good idea.

 

[rhodest]

I thought that macs come with stuffit installed.

 

[mad jew]

That stopped with Tiger for some reason.

 

[rhodest]

That is just what I have- Tiger .

 

[skubish]

That stopped with Tiger for some reason.

Probably to save money. (Apple has to pay a license fee to include StuffIt with OSX)

 

[mad jew]

It's a free download. Just click on my link above.