BXY Converter

Extract text from Apple II archives (BXY)


Drop or upload your .BXY file
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How to extract text from your BXY file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BXY file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert BXY to another file type

To convert BXY archives to another format, you need CiderPress or other Compressed software.

Convert a file to BXY

To convert other file formats to the "Retro Computing Archive" file type, you need software like CiderPress or a similar tool.


About BXY files

The .bxy file extension identifies a Binary II Archive, a legacy compression format originally designed for the Apple II computer system. These files were standard in the 1980s and 90s for bundling ProDOS files while preserving critical metadata (like file type and auxiliary type) that modern file systems (NTFS, APFS) automatically strip away. A user typically encounters a .bxy file when recovering data from old floppy disks or downloading retro software from an archive. The primary challenge is that modern operating systems treat these as unrecognizable binary blobs. You cannot simply double-click to open them; doing so usually triggers an "Unknown File Type" error. To access the data - whether it is an ancient text document, a BASIC program, or a game - you must convert the archive into a compatible disk image like DSK or PO for use in emulators, or extract the contents directly to a modern format like ZIP or TXT using specialized retro-computing tools.

Convert.Guru analyzes your BXY file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert BXY file to ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use CiderPress or similar software from the "Apple II Data Archiving" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to BXY, try CiderPress or another comparable tool in the "Apple II Data Archiving" category.



The BXY Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BXY converter.