Comments on: Disc images in Mac OS X

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:49:07 +0000

The tip works fine for Intel-based Macs.

Without knowing the specific error you are getting, I would guess that your problem may have something to do with the copy protection that is often built into games.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:03:33 +0000

While know this is an old article I have tried these steps before and have successfully made an archive of game discs in the past, but since Intel based machines have come out, the games, for example Call of Duty 2 or 4 for the MAC, do not seem to archive; at least I have not had any luck. Have you been able to get this to work on the newer games and systems?

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:33:28 +0000

My tip didn’t mention anything about creating ISO images, only how to burn them. But I did find some links that supposedly describe how to create ISO images from a DMG file:

http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/mac_support/mac_help/pages/0023-convert_dmg_img_iso.html
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040121135301830

Unfortunately, none of these instructions worked for me. The resulting image was in Apple Partition format, not the standard ISO 9660 format, making it unreadable on Windows.

If you have better luck, please let me know.

By: JM Lee

JM Lee — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:18:02 +0000

Oh, actually, I posted it here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060619181010389

But here’s the question I’ve posted:

Please clarify one thing that I didn’t quite get.

I have some files to burn as ISO CD so that both PC and MAC users can use it.

What I don’t quite get from your instruction is: How do I end up getting a .ISO to be selected to burn? Do I have to make the .DMG first? I’m just confused how the CD will become an ISO so it can be viewed as well in a PC.

Thanks for any help.