k6fca0x4d7 Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Hi guys, I was curious about is there any software can virtual CD/DVD drives on Mac OS X. In Windows, I can use Alcohol 120% to have a virtual CD/DVD drive. I really need some software which can virtual CD/DVD drives because I have lots of CD/DVD image files. Also, can someone tell my how to access Alcohol 120%'s image files (.mdf and .mds)? I mean access the files which are located in the image, not how to "burn" these image files. By the way, I've burned some Alcohol 120% images by changing file extensions to iso on Mac OS X. I can access the discs after burning process, but I was unable to access the image files (Use Toast to write image files on the discs). When I double-click on iso image files, Mac OS X tells me that the image files cannot be recognized! Can someone help me to solve this problem and tell my where can I find virtual CD/DVD tools? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 my goodness... if only mounting a disk image in osx was possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughson Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 What type of file are your images?I believe OS X Mounts ISO & DMG files. (maybe there are other formats I'm not aware of) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 .dmg or .iso are virtual drives convert to them and you are fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabron Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 bin+cue can be mounted with toast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6fca0x4d7 Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 Well, the type of the image I tried to mount is ISO file. Some ISO files can be mounted, but some ISO files can't! It's weird. For example, when I tried to mount an ISO image which is Age of Empires I, Mac could recognize it. If I tried to mount another ISO image which is Emperor - Battle for Dune, system told me that the image cannot be recognized! I'm sure the image files are fine, not corrupted. See here, I made a screenshot. Can someone tell me how to solve this problem? Here is my spec.: Laptop: ASUS A3G Processor: Intel Pentium M 1.70 GHz, supports MMX, SSE, SSE2 Memory 256MB Graphics Card: ATI RADEON MOBILITY 9600/9700 Series Network Adapter: Ethernet: Realtek 8139 Wireless: Intel PRO 2200BG, supports 802.11b/g Modem: AC97 Modem HDD: IBM 60GB Multimedia: Realtek AC97 Here is my system properties: System: Mac OS X x86 10.4.11 (Use JaS 10.4.8 to install, after installing, I update it to 10.4.11) Kernel: Darwin 8.8.1 Last, thanks for cabron, westwaerts, hughson and sg to answer my question. mounting.tiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermatea Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Everyone seems to rely on the internal drive mounter in OSX (which apparently only mounts .DMGs and certain ISOs), but I don't know if it can simultaneously mount several drives at the same time like Daemon Tools can. If you want a tool like Daemon Tools that can mount several types of images simultaneously, but for OSX, you're out of luck, none exist (to my knowledge). There also isn't any good multi-image editor for OSX like UltraISO so that's also very unfortunate. I really hope I'm wrong though, cuz' I'd love a good image mounting/editing app for OSX, so if anyone knows of one, don't hesitate to tell me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Well the Age of Empires is a PC CD format, so that could have something to do with it. I have has over 5 images mounted at the same time, and had .dmg and .iso mounted at the same time, dosen't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6fca0x4d7 Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 Oh! I see. Some of my image files only support Windows. That's why Mac OS X cannnot mount them. One day, I found a virtual CD/DVD software unexpectly - PowerISO. PowerISO Description: Kind: Universal (PowerPC & Intel) Description: PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image software. It can create, edit, expand, compress, encrypt and split image files. It has its own CD/DVD drives to mount image files. PowerISO is easy to use. Supports Shell, clipboard, drag and drop functions. PowerISO also supports ISO,BIN,NRG,IMG, etc image files. Dowload Now! http://www.chinamac.com/macsoft/html/101/4795.html #PS: If you are unable to read Chinese, see screenshot. It will tell you how to download. Last, thanks for everyone to answer my question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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