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Title: Virtual CD
Post by: MPTech on December 31, 2005, 12:14:46 am: I used to run a product called Virtual-CD (if i recall the name correctly) that allowed me to load my CD based games to my HDD and run them from there without inserting the CD each time I wanted to play them. This is for legit CDs I own, so my motives are pure. I own all of the Need For Speed series and I enjoy aspects of each of them, is there a way to laod them to my 200gig'r and play them without CD swapping? This also prevents wear&tear on children's CD (they take a beating!)
Freeware or similar is preferred.
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: Howard_Casto on December 31, 2005, 01:22:35 am: try alcohol 120%.... it does the same thing, but it seems to be less clunky
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: fixumdude on December 31, 2005, 02:02:10 am: MPTech,

I use a program called Daemon Tools.
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: fixumdude on December 31, 2005, 02:39:15 am: P.S.

I just downloaded the DaemonScript 1.5.4 from the 3rd party addons section of the daemon tools download area. It makes MUCH easier to mount images and create shortcuts to the start menu or the desktop then what I was doing with the clunky command line DOS batch files in windows. I've only used it for a few minutes but I can already tell it's going to be worlds easier than what I had been doing.
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: Todd H on December 31, 2005, 11:32:06 am: Daemon-Tools contains the Save Now! and WhenU spyware. :(

Just read that you can uncheck the boxes for these pieces of spyware during installation, but haven't tried it myself.
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: pointdablame on December 31, 2005, 12:02:06 pm: Quote from: Todd H on December 31, 2005, 11:32:06 am
Daemon-Tools contains the Save Now! and WhenU spyware. :(

Just read that you can uncheck the boxes for these pieces of spyware during installation, but haven't tried it myself.

you can get rid of them pretty easily. Or just find an older version on the net somewhere... not much has changed
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: fixumdude on January 01, 2006, 11:08:37 pm: I'm still running 3.47 and haven't noticed any extra unwanted program running.

I haven't tried 4.0 yet. I saw that it installs other programs "to help support the continued development of daemon tools"...that didn't sound like something I needed on my PC when the older version still works well.
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: pointdablame on January 02, 2006, 01:25:50 am: Quote from: fixumdude on January 01, 2006, 11:08:37 pm
I'm still running 3.47 and haven't noticed any extra unwanted program running.

I haven't tried 4.0 yet. I saw that it installs other programs "to help support the continued development of daemon tools"...that didn't sound like something I needed on my PC when the older version still works well.

yup.. same here. I'm running an older version and can't think of anything I would need to upgrade for. It's a great little program to have though, especially if you don't happen to have Alcohol installed.
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: D5A1AC on January 02, 2006, 10:43:41 am: I second (or third) daemon tools. I've never come across any of the spyware mentioned above though. It also has some handy features on top of optical drive emulation...
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: daywane on January 02, 2006, 08:22:09 pm: it was daemon tools that helped me out with sims.
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: Mr. Dude on January 02, 2006, 08:50:11 pm: I used Daemon Tools to play all of my turbo grafix 16 CD games.
Title: Re: Virtual CD
Post by: toyfiend2004 on January 04, 2006, 03:32:33 pm: is there a way to have more than the 4 drives? I can't seem to find that anywhere? is it a second program or re-write I can add?