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Anyone use VaporCD?

Muse

Lifer
I have a 7 CD set called Totally Mad, and it's a hassle to have to always put CD's in, change the CD when you need to go from disk 2 to disk 6, etc. So, having plenty of HD space, I want to run the program from HD.

VaporCD lets you copy a CD to hard drive and then map the location on hard drive to a drive letter. Is there a practical way to use it (or another program) to run this 7 CD set from hard drive?
 
Originally posted by: neutralizer
CD-burning programs like Nero should be able to copy the CD into an image and use Daemon Tools to run the CDs.
What kind of image? I have Nero 6 Ultra. What's Daemon Tools?

I got VaporCD to run the CD's, but it's sort of a hassle. Not sure it isn't more of a hassle than running the program from CD's. Reason is, the program only sees the drive assigned to the last CD mounted. So, in order to play a different CD I have to unmount the last CD and mount a different CD image as the same assigned drive. It takes about as long as switching CD's. I haven't played with it much, but that's what I'm seeing. I'm sure it's possible to automate the changing of HD images, maybe with an automation program. Anyway, one of the other ideas presented is probably a better idea, or maybe both. Thanks for the ideas.
 
Originally posted by: Muse
Originally posted by: Xyclone
If you can, just use CD-cracks. They're totally legal if you legally own the software.
I legally own it. What's CD-cracks?

A way around having to insert the CDs to play a video game. It takes the information the computer needs or checks for and just transfers them to the hard drive and changes the .exe or any files that refer to the CD to refer to the install instead. Fairly nifty.
 
Originally posted by: FallenHero
Originally posted by: Muse
Originally posted by: Xyclone
If you can, just use CD-cracks. They're totally legal if you legally own the software.
I legally own it. What's CD-cracks?

A way around having to insert the CDs to play a video game. It takes the information the computer needs or checks for and just transfers them to the hard drive and changes the .exe or any files that refer to the CD to refer to the install instead. Fairly nifty.
Is CD-Cracks a program or is it a strategy? Links? TIA....

 
bump

I found a couple of sites for CD-cracks (.net and .com) but they are most unclear. They both just have links. Nothing seems to pertain to this issue.
 
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