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December 15th, 2007, 05:03 AM
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OT: What\'s a good .iso \'fake cd drive\' program?
Short story, Baen books has a cd download with some of their electronic books. The cd download is naturally an .iso. What's a good program for loading an .iso into a fake drive?
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December 15th, 2007, 05:10 AM
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Re: OT: What\'s a good .iso \'fake cd drive\' program
I use Daemon Tools for all my mounting needs. Just be aware that there are a couple over-the-top copy protection systems out there that won't let you run their software if they detect a virtual drive, because only pirates need virtual drives. 
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December 15th, 2007, 05:50 AM
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Re: OT: What\'s a good .iso \'fake cd drive\' program
Daemon tools installs a rather low-level pass through driver, and can sometimes cause system instability.. Another option is Alcohol 52%, which has a free version. |
December 15th, 2007, 03:55 PM
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Re: OT: What\'s a good .iso \'fake cd drive\' program
I haven't had any instability problems with Daemon Tools, nor problems with game 'blacklisting' using the newer versions of the virtual drive. I never heard Alcohol solved its own blacklisting problems.
and I use DT because of vibration problems with constantly running and spinning-up optical drives... all the cds are legal and safely in a drawer.
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December 15th, 2007, 10:20 PM
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Re: OT: What\'s a good .iso \'fake cd drive\' program
I don't have any vibration problems, I just hate dicking around trying to find the CD for a game I want to play. Especially older games with all that disc-swapping malarky. Just load them all up on virtual drives, and play to your heart's content. 
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December 16th, 2007, 12:56 PM
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Re: OT: What\'s a good .iso \'fake cd drive\' program
AgentZero said:
...I just hate dicking around trying to find the CD for a game I want to play. Especially older games with all that disc-swapping malarky. Just load them all up on virtual drives, and play to your heart's content.
Me too, to the extent that I now check for the existence of a no-CD patch before purchasing a game. I have found that many "multi-disc" games can actually be run directly from the hard disk if you copy the right folders - I've so far only encountered two where a virtual image is needed.
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December 16th, 2007, 02:46 PM
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Re: OT: What\'s a good .iso \'fake cd drive\' program
Daemon tools, no doubt there. Been using for it 2-3 years and it works like a charm.
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December 17th, 2007, 03:26 PM
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Re: OT: What\'s a good .iso \'fake cd drive\' program?
The two mentioned are the ones most commonly used for free. There are others. I believe the Nero Suite also allows you to mount virtual drives.
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December 17th, 2007, 06:11 PM
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Re: OT: What\'s a good .iso \'fake cd drive\' program?
Daemon tools is really powerful, and has never provoked any trouble on my computer
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December 18th, 2007, 09:40 PM
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Re: OT: What\'s a good .iso \'fake cd drive\' program?
I've also been using Daemon Tools for several years now and have yet to encounter problems of any kind with it.
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