brianleahy
Colonel Panic
Some games include instructions for doing a stand-alone installation that will not need the CD. Check the instructions for the specific game in question to see if any such directions are included.
Other games require CD insertion as a piracy-prevention measure, and these cannot (legally) be circumvented. In any case, bear in mind that to comply with the law you must have purchased at least as many copies of the game as you have computers running it at any one time.
Other games require CD insertion as a piracy-prevention measure, and these cannot (legally) be circumvented. In any case, bear in mind that to comply with the law you must have purchased at least as many copies of the game as you have computers running it at any one time.
3mors
HampCake Studios
yes u can.
create a disk image with toast or disc copy, lock it in finder and then mount it with toast (not with disc copy or image mounter). now the system shows you on the desktop a perfect copy of the cd (even the icon).
most of the games requires that u insert a cd with an exact name as label, so if u want, u can delete all the files in it (or most of them) in order to have a smaller image file.
i've created an applescript that opens toast, mounts the image and then quits toast automatically, so u have only to click once. =)
create a disk image with toast or disc copy, lock it in finder and then mount it with toast (not with disc copy or image mounter). now the system shows you on the desktop a perfect copy of the cd (even the icon).
most of the games requires that u insert a cd with an exact name as label, so if u want, u can delete all the files in it (or most of them) in order to have a smaller image file.
i've created an applescript that opens toast, mounts the image and then quits toast automatically, so u have only to click once. =)
scruffy
Notorious Olive Counter
Yeah, but you actually get better performance if you can trick the game into reading off the hard drive. CD drives are sloooow compared to HDs.
I play Master of Orion 3 (on a somewhat underpowered computer), and the biggest performance drag is the CD - every time it wants to play a new video sample or sound effect, it spins up the CD rom, and the whole game lags waiting for the CD drive to catch up. My CD drive is also kind of noisy, which is annoying... I wish I could trick the game to use a disk image from the HD, it would be much faster, but I haven't been able to figure out how.
As I said, Alpha Centauri on OS 8.6 could be fooled into using a disk image of the game CD, and the performance was much better when I did that.
I play Master of Orion 3 (on a somewhat underpowered computer), and the biggest performance drag is the CD - every time it wants to play a new video sample or sound effect, it spins up the CD rom, and the whole game lags waiting for the CD drive to catch up. My CD drive is also kind of noisy, which is annoying... I wish I could trick the game to use a disk image from the HD, it would be much faster, but I haven't been able to figure out how.
As I said, Alpha Centauri on OS 8.6 could be fooled into using a disk image of the game CD, and the performance was much better when I did that.