Re: [WinMac] Re: CD-RW, VPC, PBG3S
Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:43:23 -0500
At 01:45 PM 12/17/98 -0800, Bion Pohl wrote:
>>From: John R. Nash@EKLAN01 on 12/16/98 04:55 PM
>
>>One of the things I'd like to be able to do is make PhotoCD discs. I'm
>
>>sure that I will be able to write "PCD" files to CD's using the bundled
>>Toast software for the Mac, but I see that there is "Picture CD Creator"
>>software available to do more fancy things... under Windows. So, the big
>>question: would I be able to use this windows software from Virtual PC on
>>the Powerbook? In general, it seems that the rule of thumb is "if the Mac
>>can see it, VPC can see it, unless it's a PCMCIA card." Again, I'd be
>
>>interested in any real-world experience, as well as opinions as to why
>>this would or wouldn't work.
>I don't have any experiance with CD-R(W)'s but I have had to deal with VPC
>a lot and I run it on a PowerBook G3/300. Since what it does is emulate a
>specific set of PC hardware which lets you run any PC operating system you
>load on it, the configuration of the faux PC hardware is fixed to what the
>program provides. One thing it doesn't provide is emulation of a SCSI
>card. All its local hard drives and the CD-ROM show up to the PC operating
>system as IDE/ATAPI devices, shared Mac folders are treated as shared
>network drives. What it all means is that I don't think VPC will be able
>to access the CD-RW except if it is treated as just a plain old CD-ROM.
>
>All is not lost though. I went and checked the manual for my copy of
>Insignia's SoftWindows95 5.0 and it does seem to support SCSI devices. I
>can't say if it would work for a CD-RW but you may be able to check out the
>Insignia web site at <http://www.insignia.com> and ask them.
If VPC can't see the CD-RW, you may not be through. If you have the disk
space you could use Picture CD Creator to create a disk image file and
write the PCD files to the image. Then you can mount the VPC volume on the
Mac side and use Toast to burn it on a CD. I would hope that the image
files would be cross-platform compatible.
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