Not sure this is really needed much anymore. While it does simplify installer CDs for commercial apps, for everyone else it's probably a lot of hassle for little benefit. That said, back in the day when I worked for a digital production studio the only way we could master CDs as you describe was with Toast. There was some slightly convoluted process to say which things showed up on the Windows side, Mac side and shared between both. By default the Mac DiskUtility or burning a CD from your desktop will show all files to both platforms but that means it can be easily used on non-Mac computers. With so much cross platform these days I'm not sure it's worth the effort/expense to do a true hybrid for most cases.
As far as duplicating an existing hybrid CD I believe Toast also would create a 'master' image of such a CD and then allow you to burn copies from this master. While other products may handle these kind of edge cases as well I know Toast in the past did all this but haven't had the need for it recently. CB John J Herzog wrote: > Hi listers, > I was interested by my odd disk utility problem, and have done research. It > turns out that the cd shows different things on the PC versus the mac because > it is a hybrid. The concept of a hybrid is that it shows only the files > appropriate to ones operating system. The others for different operating > systems, such as windows, are not readable by the machine. This leads me to a > more educated question than what I asked previously. > Is there a way to make an ISO image of a hybrid cd on a mac? Disk utility > does not work, because it does not see all the files and hence only makes a > mac compatible version of the cd. I need this to work for my windows virtual > machine, as the modern macs have no chance of running this program cd. If > anybody knows how to convert a hybrid cd into a proper digital ISO file, > please let me know. > John > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
