Is there a daemon tools-like program for Mac?

[Fox5]

I have a friend with a Mac who dislikes switching discs for her games, and I was wondering if there was an equivalent tool for Mac.

 

[keeleysam]

Just make DMGs of them.

 

[phisrow]

I'm pretty sure OSX has some sort of loop device support in kernel. I don't know if that will play nice with the ghastly "copy protection" hacks that some commercial software ships with.

 

[spherrod]

There's this on Apple's site - looks like you require Toast as well, and as phisrow mentioned it might not work with copy protected software

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/toastmount.html

 

[Fox5]

Does Toast come with OSX?

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: Fox5
Does Toast come with OSX?

no - Toast is not included with OSX

 

[doan]

I'm not a mac guy, but in linux you can use the mount command on iso files

 

[chcarnage]

Some games can be tricked with mounted images but others still need the CD in the drive.

The simpliest way to create an image is this:

1.
Insert the CD/DVD

2.
Open the program Disk Utility, located at Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities

3.
In the menu bar, select File > New > Image from Volume...

4.
Go through the save dialog, the image gets created. After that, eject the CD/DVD.

5.
Mount the image (double click) and start the installed game. Hope for the best.


There are a number of other programs that can create images like Roxio Toast and Carbon Copy Cloner, however Disk Utility does the job right in most cases.