OSS of the moment: wincdemu

wincdemu acts as a virtual optical drive that allows you to mount disc images. what’s nice about that is that you don’t need to actually burn a cd/dvd to either view the contents or run the program on the disc. i think most people use disc mounters to play games (including myself), though i’ve used it for a few other purposes as well.

i personally love these sort of programs because i am unorganized and hate having to keep media around. i’ll most likely scratch it up, break it, or lose it.

there’s other software that accomplishes this same task, most notably daemontools. personally, i stopped using daemontools years ago. at one point it included some kind of sketchy adware-ish type thing. that was bundled with the install. of course you could always say you didn’t want to install it, but if you weren’t paying close enough attention..i.e. Next Next Next, you’d get it installed. i’m all for freeware/opensource developers making money, but a better sponsor probably could have been chosen. anyways i believe the internet community released a version that came without the adware garbage. i haven’t followed daemontools since then.

i eventually moved on to use Virtual CloneDrive by SlySoft, a freeware product. can’t say that i have any complaints about virtual clonedrive…it’s an awesome product. however, since i really like to use true opensource software i’ve begun to use wincdemu.

the linux counterpart for iso mounting would be acetoneiso.
also to mount from CLI:
mount -o loop mydvd.iso /mnt/iso

This entry was written by resinblade , posted on Monday December 14 2009at 12:12 am , filed under IT . Bookmark the permalink . Post a comment below or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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