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Kernel driver to load disk images?
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Central Texas
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OK...I like to play several games at a moments notice - but all require the CD to be in the drive. So for now, I keep the boxes in my drawers. This does lead to a few issues such as one of my kids taking a CD out (I've lost my Jedi Knight 2 CD), or just having a hard time finding the game CD.
So....what I'd like to do is create disk images of my games. Then have a kernel level driver that loads the disk images and act as REAL CD players so the games will see them.
I'd also like it if each disk image was verified and "signed" so to speak to prevent piracy. What that means is the first time I ask it to mount an image I've burned, the driver would ask me to put the original CD in. It would verify that I owned the CD. Heck...even if it asks ever 50 times. That's fine because I understand the need to prevent piracy.
Now...first of all, does anybody know if anything CLOSE to what I am looking for exists? Or if anything like this is possible? And finally...if possibly anybody wants to write such a beast?
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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Have you tried using normal disc image mounting?
Otherwise, try using Toast Titanium. Use it to make an image, then mount it with Toast. Toast is so good at this that even movie DVDs can be mounted as images, and the DVD Player actually believes a DVD drive is present (even if that's not the case).
tooki
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Originally posted by tooki:
Have you tried using normal disc image mounting?
Otherwise, try using Toast Titanium. Use it to make an image, then mount it with Toast. Toast is so good at this that even movie DVDs can be mounted as images, and the DVD Player actually believes a DVD drive is present (even if that's not the case).
tooki
Yes, I've tried Disk Copy. However...not Toast. Toast may be a good thing to test...
Can anybody verify that this works in Toast?
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Santa Barbara
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Create the image with Toast then use AppleScript to mount it and play the game.
For example:
Code:
tell application "Toast Titanium 5.2.1"
activate
mount image (file "HardDrive:CDs:Game.toast")
quit
end tell
tell application "Game"
activate
end tell
You can even copy and paste the game's icon over the AppleScript file to make it look better.
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