Nice try, no banana

[unixronin]

VirtualCD's runtime upgrade check keeps telling me today that there's an updated version available, v7.1 (I'm currently on v7.0.0.1), and I should upgrade.

There's just one problem with this.  If you click the link it offers and go to their site to download the upgrade, you will get an installer that claims to be v7.1 that actually (a) installs 7.0.0.1 again, and (b) will totally blow away your VirtualCD configuration in the process.  What's worse, unlike VirtualCD 4, VirtualCD 7 does not keep its CD configuration in a file that you can easily just restore.

This is a major blunder on their part.  One hopes they will fix it soon.

Comments

[databeast.livejournal.com]

Alcohol 120%

the last name you need to know for CD tools.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Haven't tried that one myself. I tried daemontools once, and it hosed my machine so badly i had to reformat the disk and reinstall from bare metal.

[databeast.livejournal.com]

alcohol is awesome, great virtual CD support, but that's a secondary tool to its 'will copy and CD on the planet no matter how long it takes' industrial-strength take-no-prisoners duplication and imaging tools.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd heard that about it.

My main reason for using virtual-CD tools is so (a) I don't have to have mechanical wear and tear on my CD originals, and (b) I don't have to swap CDs in and out every time I want to play a game, I can just leave all the images I regularly use mounted all the time. Copying hasn't really been an issue, except making CD images of a few games like Halo and CivIII that are really, really intensely anal about wanting to see the original CD physically loaded in a physical drive, and frankly, I have no compunction about using no-CD hacks for that purpose.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oops. I meant to ask, will Alcohol co-exist with other tools just for the rare times when you DO need to do one of those "come back either carrying your copy, or on it" jobs?