Re: [WinMac] Burning dual-platform CD-ROMs

Changhsu P. Liu(cpl874[at]mail.optimum.com)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:27 -0400

I read this tip somewhere but have never tried it. You may give it a try.

Start your Mac with extensions off. Launch Toast 3.5.4. and do a CD copy.
If you start with extensions on, it would recognize and distinguish Mac and
Win sessions and you can only copy one session. With no extensions, you can
copy both. Let me know if it actually works.

2) The hard way:
Use multisession mounter (come with Toast) to mount both sessions. Compare
the file to find shared files, Mac specific files and PC specific files.
Put them in the right folders and create a Hybrid CD from Toast. Read the
manual in Toast you will find a chapter on how Hybrid CD is organized. This
will take a while to do, but it works.

3) My colleage had success do a CD copy to get both platform on PC. He may
use either Gear 4 or Ez CD Creator.

Good luck,

Changhsu Liu
cpl874@optimum.com

>We have several CD-ROMs of clipart, etc., which have been created as
>dual-platform CD-ROMs. What i mean by this is: If you put the CD-ROM in a
>Mac (G3 OS8.1) you see one folder, and when you put the CD-ROM in a PC
>(WinNT SP3) you see a different folder. There seems to be no trace of the PC
>data on the Mac, and vice versa.
>
>What I would like to be able to do is copy, in their entirety, these
>CD-ROMs, preserving both the Mac and PC information. Our CD burner (Yamaha
>CRW 4260-tx) shipped with Adaptec Easy-CD for PCs and Toast for Mac; telling
>either of these programs to copy the CD in question only copies the part for
>that particular OS.
>
>Anyone know of software which will let me copy the WHOLE CD?

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