Computer help

jameslxdt · Post by **jameslxdt** » Sun May 06, 2007 6:59 pm

does anyone know what a BIN file is and what the heck you have to do to open it?

wes1001 · Post by **wes1001** » Sun May 06, 2007 7:09 pm

A BIN file is associated with a CUE file James. I'm guessing the torrent you downloaded came down in this format. If you are burning to disc then use Nero or equivalent ( Santa, Fab, Decrypter etc ), the cue file tells your prog where to find the info to burn. The CUE file will be titchy in size - usually a few Kb's whereas the BIN is the biggie. Open up your burning prog and add the CUE or double click the CUE and Decrypter etc will auto start anyway.

Personally i stay away from BIN's and CUE's as they are an old way of upping stuff and can be unreliable ( i.e. sync problems ). If you can find the same torrent with any of the extensions .IMG / .AVI / .VOB etc then your laughing. Also be careful of RAR's as sometimes the MPAA up em and once they hit 90% they stop - but by then they got your IP if your not using Peer Guardian or Hide IP etc.

As a side note, what do you think of VSOconvertX ??

jameslxdt · Post by **jameslxdt** » Sun May 06, 2007 7:13 pm

well i wasnt doing anything remotley like that
ive got some mileage software to change the mileage displayed on the instrument panel of my 406 as i fitted a different set with the wrong mileage, i had to extract the program with winRAR (i think) but every file after i extracted the program has come out as a BIN file

wes1001 · Post by **wes1001** » Sun May 06, 2007 7:22 pm

Ah silly me - i forgot BIN's can be used for legal archiving as well -

. When you extracted the file did you just highlight the first RAR - i.e. Rar 01 and extract to a different directory or the same one ???

jameslxdt · Post by **jameslxdt** » Sun May 06, 2007 7:26 pm

well all i can tell you is i clicked on the file i wanted to extract, then winrar opend i clicked extract to then made a new folder and extracted the program to there
i really aint got a clue with computers

wes1001 · Post by **wes1001** » Sun May 06, 2007 7:38 pm

OK , right so you now got a folder with a load of BIN's in it - correct ???. How are you gonna use the prog ?, is it a case of connecting the laptop to the car - i'm not up on this kind of mileage software change thing

, but basically the upshot is the .CUE file contains the track layout information, while the .BIN file holds the actual data.

If you have a .BIN file but no .CUE, then,

.CUE can be made with just Notepad. A typical Playstation(One or 2) .CUE file looks like this:

FILE "image-name.BIN" BINARY
TRACK 1 MODE2/2352
INDEX 1 00:00:00

A typical PC CD-ROM .CUE looks like this which is what i'm guessing you need,

FILE "image-name.BIN" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00

"image-name.BIN" being the name of the image file (IWDII.BIN, CIV3.BIN and so on...)

Notice the difference of the track mode - PC-ROMs being Mode 1, Playstations CDs Mode 2 and (Super)Video CDs are also MODE2/2352.

Hope this helps

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Mon May 07, 2007 1:49 pm

wes1001 wrote:but basically the upshot is the .CUE file contains the track layout information, while the .BIN file holds the actual data.

You're making the massive assumption that the .bin files are optical disk images. I'd be willing to bet in this case they aren't. .bin files have traditionally been used to denote 'generic binary data'. Other examples of .bin file usage include bios images, eeprom images, bootloaders, savegame data, etc

James: tried just loading the .bin files into this software you've got?

wes1001 · Post by **wes1001** » Mon May 07, 2007 4:41 pm

Like i said i'm not sure about mileage transfer software so image transfer is really the only time i come across BIN's

jameslxdt · Post by **jameslxdt** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:43 pm

mjb wrote:
wes1001 wrote: James: tried just loading the .bin files into this software you've got?

thats the problem,
the .bin file is supposed to be the program (i think)
i really aint got a clue what im doing

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:26 pm

Ah, OK either 1) it's not meant to be run on a PC or 2) the following should work

Grab a copy of Daemon Tools from here. It'll put a little red lightning icon on your taskbar/icon tray thing. Right-click it, 'virtual cd/dvd-rom', 'device 0.....', 'mount image' and in the window that pops up, change 'files of type' to 'all files (*.*)' and open the bin file

With any luck, either an installer should pop up, or if there's no autorun you can go to 'my computer' which will have a new drive icon there - the drive will contain the software to install.

wes1001 · Post by **wes1001** » Tue May 08, 2007 10:17 am

Yep Alcohol 120% will do the whole virtual drive doohicky for ya

jameslxdt · Post by **jameslxdt** » Tue May 08, 2007 8:50 pm

what did i f*ck up now

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Wed May 09, 2007 8:42 am

Erk! Win98ish! Hmm I can't think of any virtual drive apps for that off the top of my head. Let me see when I get home this evening...

wes1001 · Post by **wes1001** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:15 am

mjb wrote:Erk! Win98ish!

LMAO

BTW am i the only one that thinks Vista sucks compared to a tweaked XP ????

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Wed May 09, 2007 5:15 pm

Vista's cool!

Just needs some bugs ironing out.....