Virtual CD driveware?
 

Anyone have any experience with any program that has this capability? I've been pointed to VirtualCD and CloneCD but haven't heard very much about either.

I want to use something to handle kids' games on some of the public-access machines at the library I do support work for. This might be under 2000 or XP Pro.

Any information/pointers welcomed. TIA

do you want to mount these disks onto a local machine or serve them to a whole bunch of machines?

i just received a tiger direct catalog and i found this pretty interesting.

it's called 'gamedrive' and it can do this.

it costs 30 bucks and can do this to 23 cd's.

If you want IMO The best Program For this Sort of thing Ever Try
Alcohol 120% [Site]

This program supports almost anything you can throw at it but check this hefty list of features... ( there are A lot More)

Feature List
[list=1][*]Supported platforms: Windows 95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP and Server 2003 [*]Can handle up to 31 virtual CD & DVD-ROM drives, all at once! Allowing you to run several CD & DVD programs simultaneously.[*]200X CD-ROM reading speed[*]The reading speed of a virtual CD-ROM is 200X. This means you can play a CD from the virtual CD-ROM with 200X reading speed. [*]Supports dumping from original disc to most popular of image file formats: Media Descriptor Image file format(mds), CloneCD Image format(ccd/img/sub), CDR WIN Image file format(cue/bin), Standard ISO Image format(iso)[*]Supports normal CD & DVD and CD RAW sub-channel reading methods: RAW reading method enables to emulate all CDs. [*]CD writing methods: Session-At-Once, Disc-At-Once, RAW Session- At-Once, RAW Session- At-Once + SUB, RAW Disc- At-Once (with full PQ/R-W sub-code support) [*]Supports almost any format of CD disc image files for Emulation and Recording: Media Descriptor Image file format(mds), CloneCD Image format(ccd/img/sub), CDRWIN Image file format(cue/bin), NERO Image file format(nrg), Standard ISO Image format(iso), BlindSuite image file format(bwt/bwi/bws), DiscJuggler image file format(cdi). [*]Supports Bypass EFM error function, it will try to correct regular bit patterns.[*]Offers "Ignore Media Type" option. This option will force all software to ignore whether the disc is CD-R or CD-RW, allowing it to be recognized as a CD-ROM disc.[*]CD formats supported: CD-DA, CD+G, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Video CD, Photo CD, Mixed Mode, Multi-session CD [*]Support for Buffer-Under-Run prevention technologies including: BURN-Proof™, JustLink™, Power-Burn™, SafeBurn™, Seamless Link[/list=1]

Agreed...Alcohol 120 is the way to go...otherwise daemon-tools

mount -t iso9660 -o loop cdimage.iso /cdrom

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