Stuffit

StuffIt Expander is Universal Binary. Therefore, the OP should have no trouble unstuffing anything on any Mac that he may own. I do, however, echo the previous suggestions to install Flip4Mac.

If you REALLY need Windows Media Player for Mac, you're going to need Stuffit Expander to uncompress the .sitx compressed file. ...

If you don't know, you can look in the "About this Mac" window, which you can get to through the Apple menu. WMP 9 will not work as a plugin, and stuffit is not a UB, and won't open .bins yet. ...

I have Flip 4 Mac already but i have found some sites dont work with it and need an actuall version of windows media player. So i downloaded the .bin file from the apple site and tried to open it with stuffit but nothing happens it just says that its preparing :confused: so how else can i open the file?

Sounds like you both are running on MacIntel systems. There's a beta release of Stuffit Expander as a Universal Binary, available here: http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/universalbeta.html Give that a shot. If no luck, do a Spotlight search for com.stuffit.Expander.plist and trash it, try again.

different types of archives, but there is one that can extract from many different archives. I have one app that can create gzip, bzip2, zip, dmg, stuffit, and stuffit X archives. There is another one that creates tar.bz, tar. ...

they dont have StuffIt or something similar. ...

I downloaded the Stuffit expander and it did what it was supposed to do, now I am running into a new problem, the new downloaded software requires "Classic OS 9" and my Mac is running version 10.4.8 - the new software wants "Classic" - I see that the help window suggests that I use the disks that came with the Mac to install the Classic, but I am a little nervous about that:...

'... And it doesn't phone home every time you use it.'. Yes, 'StuffIt Expander', like many applications, does 'call home' - the first time it is launched. This happens, and will continue to happen, when 'StuffIt Expander' is again launched - because 'StuffIt Expander's 'StuffIt Expander, Allow Version Checking' menu item is checked by default. Selecting the menu item will...

StuffIt Expander isn't included with the default Tiger 10.4 install, so you may need to grab it from here: http://www.allume.com