Re: CD/DVD images on PC?



Sandman wrote:
>
> Now when I have two PCs, one at home and one at work, I need to have things
> like games installed on both computers. With all the piracy in the world, game
> developers usually insist on the original CD/DVD being in the drive in order
> for the game to launch, which is aggravating when you have one PC, and a real
> problem if you have two.
>
> I won't buy the games twice to play them in different locations, so here are my
> options, as I see it:
>
> 1. Download NO-CD hacks for the games in question.
> 2. Make a disk image clone of the CD to keep on my HD and mount when needed
>
> Using 1 usually means that you use a "hacked" copy of the binary, or patch it
> to not look for the CD. This probably means that it's illegal to do, plus means
> that you have to keep patching whenever a new version of the games come.
>
> Using 2 consumes a lot of disc space, but we're not talking about 20 games
> here. I gather I could live with that.
>
> So how do I do it? With the Mac, all I have to do is use Disk Utility to create
> a .dmg file of the CD/DVD which will mount natively when double-clicked.
>
> I have seen, but never used, software like Alcohol, CloneCD, Daemon Tools for
> Windows - is anyone of them up to the task where it's as easy as on the Mac?
> I'm worried about it being something like "clone with X and mount with Y". I
> fired up Nero, which I own, to see if it provides that option (like Toast
> does), but since Nero has one of this universe worst UI's, I was unable to find
> an option that did this.
>

There are a couple of other things you could try. For some games, the
program Virtual Drive works. It makes a "virtual CD", much like a disk
image, then mounts that just like a real CD. But it works for, I'd
guess, no more than half of the games I've tried it on. I also often
make duplicate CD's to use, so I can keep the original in my files.
Sometimes making the dupes on the "other" platform helps. For example,
when I copy my UT2004 Mac disk on the Mac, the copy doesn't work. When
I use a bit copy program on the PC, the resulting disk works fine on the
Mac.

Lisa
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