tanaquil
Well-known member
I feel like this must be a really stupid question, but I have some old software on CD-ROM images (various kinds, mdf/mds, toast, etc). Was any software ever written that could mount CD images under System 6? Or am I better off burning a physical CD which I could try to run in my external SCSI CD-ROM drive? I'm not even sure the oldest SCSI CD-ROM drives can recognize burned disks.
In a pinch I guess I could drag folders to a zip disk or something (on a bridge mac), but it would be great if the images were useable directly.
I'm curious about using stuff under System 6 because I have a couple of CDs so old that System 7 has trouble reading them properly (it tries to make a bunch of stuff into aliases when they are not). And even if I have the physical CD, I'd like to know that I can make an image work if the physical ever fails.
As I write this, it occurs to me that I could try mounting a disk image in a bridge mac and accessing the bridge mac over the network... not sure if that would fix the weird alias problem.
In a pinch I guess I could drag folders to a zip disk or something (on a bridge mac), but it would be great if the images were useable directly.
I'm curious about using stuff under System 6 because I have a couple of CDs so old that System 7 has trouble reading them properly (it tries to make a bunch of stuff into aliases when they are not). And even if I have the physical CD, I'd like to know that I can make an image work if the physical ever fails.
As I write this, it occurs to me that I could try mounting a disk image in a bridge mac and accessing the bridge mac over the network... not sure if that would fix the weird alias problem.