racketboy wrote:fastbilly1 wrote:Dtools became a bit of a mess on anything after Win7. But if you are running Win8 or 10 you have a built in virtual disc drive.
Interesting! Does it work the same way as Daemon? I haven't used Windows past 7.
Is there anything similar on OSX?
There is!
Believe it or not, OSX has had the ability to mount virtual drives for about fifteen years. Of course, Apple wants you to do it their way. The preferred format for a disc image in OSX is a .dmg file. Don't worry though. OSX can also mount .iso files as well. All you have to do is double-click a .dmg file or .iso file to mount the virtual drive in OSX. Then you may notice a new drive on your desktop or on the navigation sidebar in any finder window. I attribute this to the "it just works" apple design philosophy. Mounting a virtual disc is so simple that you wouldn't realize that OSX can do it if you weren't trying.
But wait! Occasionally you may download a disc image with some kind of funny or proprietary encoding. If they don't open up with a simple double-click operation, then you do have another option. Go to Applications --> Utilities --> Disk Utility. Once you launch disk utility, you will have more options, more flexibility, and more power. I could go on a tangent about Disk Utility, but I might save that for another day.
One final note, if you have trouble with a disc image with an oddball file extension such as a .toast file, you can also try simply renaming the file with a .dmg extension to satisfy Apple's insistence on doing everything Apple's way.