Mac ISO incompatible with Windows?

[1200XL M.U.L.E.]

I tested my CD drive in my Centris 650 by playing an audio CD. It works! Now I want to try reading data from the drive.

I have the OS 8.1 installation CD and I downloaded the ISO images of MS Office and ClarisWorks. These images seem to mount fine when I use the Basilisk II emulator. For some reason, I cannot burn the images to a CD-R on my Windows machine. Windows tells me the ISO image is corrupt.

Is there some incompatibility between Windows and older Macintosh ISO images? Do I need a special piece of software?

Thanks!

 

[Cory5412]

Try dedicated burning software like imgburn.

Windows itself will be expecting a filesystem it can use directly, imgburn will write whatever you feed it more or less without question.

imgburn is also one of the better ways to image mac discs, Disk Utility on modern Macs tries to be too smart about it and misses critical information needed to re-constitute a bootable disc.

There's another that works well, its name escapes me at the moment, I've gone back and forth between the two for the last 15 years and have had good luck.

 

[1200XL M.U.L.E.]

I installed ImgBurn. The installation process asked me if I wanted to install other programs. I was starting to think I downloaded some kind of virus infested program. No, just another method of advertising, I suppose.

Anyways ... it worked! I was able to burn my downloaded image of ClarisWorks to my single CD-R. My Centris read the disc and I was able to install the program just fine!

Thanks for the recommendation!