label is the name of the CD as it will appear in My Computer.In other words, don’t use the Mac to create the following file, and don’t edit it on the Mac either. It must be prepared on the PC side, because PC-ANSI line endings must be used otherwise AUTORUN will fail. This is accomplished with the AUTORUN.INF file. When someone inserts the CD into a Windows PC, it should automatically run a file (assuming AutoRun is enabled and functioning). Blank CD-RW disk for testing (didn’t want to waste lots of CD blanks).Text Editor on PC to create autorun.inf file.Photoshop w/ IconBuilder XP from (Windows Version) to create.XCode developer kit utility SetFile to set invisibility bit.AutoOpen 1.0 from No longer available!.Powerbook 12″ with a Matshita CD-RW CW-8122 combo DVD/CDRW drive.This used to be very solid German software when it was just from Astarte. It seems to work, though the UI dialogs are a little buggy. Despite that, I bought it after MacImage didn’t end up doing what I needed. And a lot of other “home” oriented uses like “backing up your DVDs” and other such nonsense.
Looks like a good solution for sharing data with basic functionality, but it won’t create a CD that holds up to the expectations of discerning Macintosh users.Īdaptec Toast 7 Titanium ($99, Macintosh) still has a custom hybrid mode that allows you to create decent hybrid CDs.
MacImage is a PC solution that does the job, but doesn’t allow you to create a nice Macintosh partition with custom backgrounds.If there are shared files (for example, giant video files), they can be made visible to both Mac and PC sides. The Mac doesn’t see the PC files, and the PC doesn’t see the Mac files. These are CD-ROMs that have both the nice Mac icons and PC files. I last used Toast in 1993 to make hybrid CD-ROMs. Also, want to make it very obvious what to click on by hiding files that are not user-friendly. The projector needs to automatically run on the PC, and open a folder on the Mac with the projector readily clickable. The project: A Flash Projector that loads SWF movies from a subdirectory named _data. I have not personally confirmed this though. Update for Toast 8: I’m told by a reader that the newer version of Toast, version 8, actually implements a lot of these features more intuitively now. Make sure you read the comments at the end too there are some helpful notes that other users have added (especially regarding the tricky hiding of files). These notes are still a little rough, but should get you in the ballpark of what you need to do I don’t want to have to look this up again, so I’m writing it down. This is the first time I’ve done this in-geez- 12 years, so I had to research the current process.
Geeky notes in progress to myself on a CD-ROM project: how to create a CD that will work on the Mac and on the PC, using Roxio Toast 7 and a small flotilla of support utilities.
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