CD for MAC platform?

[moop]

Can I use somehow presentation done by AutoPlay 4.0 Studio on Apple MAC?

Tnanks
Martin

[Corey]

Not at this time unfortunately.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[Derek]

... unless you wish to write a front-end for it for the MAC, since the base of AMS is xml - it could work!

[TJ_Tigger]

NOt only that, but you would need burning software that writes CDs that are readable in a MAC. I use Easy CD and I don't think the CDs will work in a MAC. I am not a MACophile so I have no clue on how they work, do they have an autoplay function similar to PCs? If so are there any free or shareware versions out there that can be used to create an autoplay file and point to the ams file? Just curious if anyone has done it.

[pagedown]

Yeah the Mac is a diff animal, we have some here, but the PC dominates our center. They use Toast for the burning software i think. I have to say though, the Mac is on a serious comeback.......

[Corey]

Yes, pagedown is right, it's the year of the Mac.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[antjedi]

All macs since the early '90s can read disks (floppy, zip, CD, what-have-you) formated for PCs, they also can read ISO9660 CD's, as well as their own HFS/HFS+ format, and OSX can now read NSF disks too...

There is an autoplay of sorts, but it was never used by developers, and is usually off by default...The only things that use it are a small number of movie disks. ALL DVD and Audio CD's do autoplay by default though...

Oh, and Toast (Made by Roxio) is the most popular CD burning software, but there are others...OS 9 and OSX have CD burning builtin for Audio and Data CD's...

[pagedown]

Antjedi,

Good info...

[antjedi]

AH, one other thing to note, when I say "can read disks" I mean it can show files, folders, etc... and open files that are compatable (like jpg, html, txt, word docs, pdfs, etc...), but they won't run PC .exe programs of course...otherwise they would be PC's /ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif

[eric_darling]

Toast is perfectly capable of formatting multi-partitioned CD-ROMs (these partitions can be made to share media across partitions flawlessly - it's a snap). It's a beautiful thing, and the only way to author cross-platform. Macs rule on cross-platform because Windows developers couldn't care less, really, and therefore don't develop much software that handles these kinds of capabilities. Another reason to have at least one Mac in your shop.

[eric_darling]

but they won't run PC .exe programs of course

Actually, that's not entirely true... If you run Virtual PC on your Mac, you can run .exe files, so it is possible.

http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc5m.html

[moop]

This is an avalanche of replies!!!! Meny thanks!
Good tip for Toast antjedi...
meybe the MAC/PC compatible multimedia CD is here?

1.Make a presentation in Autoplaystudio

2.burn multi-platform CD with Toast burning software

3.add distribution installation (if exist) of Virtual PC on CD

oups ? Toast is for OS only?

[eric_darling]

No, I don't think there is a freely distributable version of Virtual PC, unfortunately.

Toast only works on Mac OS, yes. It's definitely a superior product to Roxio's Windows version, Easy CD Creator. I think it beats Nero too, although Nero is pretty great for Windows.

[AaronCooper]

I have a similiar wish for a MAC version, but I had to use a Very watered down product called eZedia for the Mac side.
I did have some OS 9 issues that I had to work around.

MAC OS 9.x does have a autoplay function,which using a quicktime extension to run, but a lot people have it turned off due to a virus that uses that as a path.
MAC OS X.x, does NOT have a autoplay function, at this time.

For Cross platform burning , we used CDEverywhere to make a ISO. It worked VERY well. CDEverywhere, allows you to hide or share, folders and files, for each platform. You can have it build the Win autorun and MAC OS 9.x auto launch for you.

[moop]

It looks like is not really difficult to burn CD MAC/PC compatible if you know how /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif(just the autorun issue)
I have looked into a NERO info and..
http://xklan.akintermedia.co.nz/nero.jpg
Anyway , again many thanks for interesting disscusion!!
If I'll find any interesting news on internet about this problem will tell you immediately!

[Protocol]

I recently wrote a how to on the subject...hope it helps.






Process for creating a Mac/PC hybrid disc

Note: Mac/PC hybrid must be assembled on a Mac






1) Put all Mac and PC files on the desktop by dragging them from their respective sources

2) Open Toast (burning software)

3) Go to "Utilities"

4) Select "Create Temporary Partition"

5) When the window opens, type in a name such as "BVB CDrom"

6) For size, put in "650"

7) For "ON", select a drive on your Mac that has enough room (650 MB)

8) Click "OK"

9) Now there should be a new icon on the desktop labeled "BVB CDrom"

10) Drag all the Mac files that you placed onto the desktop into "BVB CDrom"

11) Click on "Select Mac" that will open a new window

12) In the new window, select "BVB CDrom"

13) Put a checkmark in the "Auto Start" box and a new window will open.

14) In the new window, select the Mac's application (.exe file) and click "Open"

15) Click "OK"

16) Click on "Select ISO" and a new window will appear

17) Click and drag all the PC files onto the new window in any order and click "Done" (Toast will automatically rearrange the files)

18) Insert a blank CDR and select "Record"

19) A new window will pop up asking you what speed you want to burn at. Select 2X then select "Write Disc"



That's it!

[zeroseven]

You make it sound so simple.. /ubbthreads/images/icons/tongue.gif

Now... for something Mac-platform to burn......................

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[eric_darling]

Read the fine print on the Nero screen, and you'll see that you need to have a SCSI HFS (Mac formatted) hard drive connected to your Windows box to make it work. First you gotta get that partition to be recognized by your Windows machine. Third party software time! And then, SCSI? Why not FireWire or something a little more common, heck even USB should be supported. SCSI disks are not often portable like that.

Next, you have to realize that HFS is limited to 2 GB file size. Not too bad unless you are working with digital video source files (like I do every day), then it's a major problem. You really want an HFS+ disk, because no one who is using a Mac OS 9 or later has any HFS formatted disks anyway. Nero won't do HFS+, apparently.

Ahead gave it a shot, but for cross-platform, Macs still rule.