Disk Images: Create Virtual Disk Images in OS X
Most games these days want you to have a disk in your computer to play. One reason is this keeps people from giving a copy of the game to their friends. This can become a pain and a major annoyance on long trips or anywhere where you can’t reach your disk, and you have a case of Call of Duty fever.
If only there were a way to trick the game into thinking the disk was in the computer. Enter the Disk Utility, a little application that comes in the utilities folder of every Mac. All you have to do is pop your disk in, open Disk Utility, select your disk, and click New Image. Name the disk image and save it somewhere. Now all you have to do is open the disk image, and the disk will appear on your desktop, just like any normal disk. The applications will not know the difference between a virtual disk and the real thing.
Disk images also give you the ability to open multiple disks at once on a one-drive machine. You can even encrypt disk images to easily store your sensitive files. Also, while we here at MacApper do not condone any illegal actions, the disk images are yours and lack any digital rights management. It is also just as easy to burn disk images so you can copy your disks as many times as you want. Disk Utility makes it simple to back up the disks of your favorite games and have them on hand any time you want.
This doesn’t work for any modern game. You need Toast to burn images that the computer recognizes as an actual CD rather than a mounted disk image.
Does Disco burn images the same way?
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Yep, just tried this with Disk Utility and Halo on Mac OS X 10.4.9 and it didn’t work. Halo didn’t “see” the CD on my desktop.
Hopefully, Leopard will address this.
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Kiro, Disco uses MacOS X’s built-in disc burning system and is therefore subject to its limitations. Toast mounts its disk images in such a way as to make the system believe the image is an actual CD or DVD.
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Just tried with Civ IV Warlords. No such luck.
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hi nice site.
hi all.
How i can to get it?
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How many virtual disc can you run with Toast?
I tried this with Diablo2: Lord of Destruction and it worked when i choosed to form DVD/CD-master
douchebag here. works great
[...] the Free ISO Creator, Linux users can hack one together from the terminal, and Mac users can create disk images using the built-in Disk Utility. Grab a few DVDs you’d never want to lose to the ravages of time and create an ISO you keep [...]
[...] the Free ISO Creator, Linux users can hack one together from the terminal, and Mac users can create disk images using the built-in Disk Utility. Grab a few DVDs you’d never want to lose to the ravages of time and create an ISO you keep [...]
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[...] the Free ISO Creator, Linux users can hack one together from the terminal, and Mac users can create disk images using the built-in Disk Utility. Grab a few DVDs you’d never want to lose to the ravages of time and create an ISO you keep [...]
D2 is right. I created a new image of Backtrack 4 and saved it as CD/DVD-master and booted it in Parallels. It booted much faster than from the DVD and works like a charm. Thanks for the post.
Hi,
I’m new to Mac and I want to know how to create a virtual disc using Toast 10 Titanium?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Our Virtual CD-RW Driver may be a way to go as it looks to the OS like a real CD is mounted in a real optical drive:
http://www.burningthumb.com/virtualcdrw.html
Works for me, thanks!