[ale] Faking out Windows CD checks?

[Dylan Northrup]

Robert L. Harris wrote:

>  Has anyone found a good work around for a scenario like this where the
>physical CD's are required?  Yeah, this could possibly provide a pain
>as this is what the copy protection is supposed to prevent but I'm tired
>of paying $20/$30 to replace CD's because they're so easy to scratch and
>thus ruin.
>  
>

I saw a review of some software on The Screen Savers a week or two ago 
called Alcohol 120%.  It supposedly makes good copies of copy protected 
games.  It also has the ability to make an image of a CD that you can 
then mount as a virtual CD-ROM.  Aside f rom reducing the potential of 
damaging your CDs, it apparently makes load times much faster since 
they're from local disk instead of from slower CD-ROM.  It's $50, but 
there's a trial version you can download and use for 30 days to see how 
it works for you. 

http://www.alcohol-software.com/

The software is Windows only.  Hope this helps.

-- 
Dylan Northrup <*> docx at io.com <*> http://www.io.com/~docx/
"Harder to work, harder to strive, hard to be glad to be alive, but it's
 really worth it if you give it a try." -- Cowboy Mouth, 'Easy'



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