Friday, June 24, 2011

Useful Utilities - Virtual CD programs

A while back I needed a good virtual CD program. I ended up downloading at least a dozen virtual CD programs and tried them out. Most of them were junk, but there were some good ones in there. Here are my two favorites:

ISODisk -ISODisk is the epitome of a simple program. Very clean UI, the ability to mount multiple ISO images, and even rips discs to ISOs. However, despite all this I did not end up using ISODisk for my needs at home because ISODisk lacks one significant feature - x64 support.

WinCDEmu - WinCDEmu is the virtual CD program I ended up using. Whereas the program is not as simple and as clean as ISODisk, it does support x64. Another feature I really like about WinCDEmu is the source code is freely available. In the future I'm hoping to modify WinCDEmu and give it a clean UI. But in the meantime WinCDEmu is a pretty good program.

There you have it, if you're looking for a virtual CD program you might want to give one of these a try.

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