![]() ![]() An icon will appear on your desk representing the new disk image. I made a 40MB disk image, with R/W access, and named it as I want my CD to be named when it’s inserted. Create a new disk image that’s big enough to hold all the files you want. Launch Disk Utility (it’s in your Applications/Utilities folder). ![]() The Folder with the projector will automatically open when the CD is inserted.There will just be ONE icon, the movie projector, to click on!.We’ll have a cool Custom Background Picture for the Folder!.This will allow us to set it up just right: We’re going to make a separate disk image to contain all our files for the Mac side. Fortunately, we can hide all the files except for the projector using the Toast 7 ISO Layout Tools. The average person may not know which file to click on to run it, should AutoRun fail to work on their computer. You’ll note that there’s three files listed: The _data folder, the AUTORUN.INF file, and the projector itself E3ExpoProspectus.EXE. To do this you would have to build the icon into the EXE resource, which requires other development tools on the PC to do. You can also select an icon to show, if it’s embedded in the EXE, if you’re not using the icon entry by appending a comma followed by a number. The pathname may not have any spaces in it. In my case, the program I used was The IconFactory’s IconBuilder XP. The E3Video.ico file contains Icon resources created with an Icon Editor. Here it’s pointing to a directory called _data. Icon is the pathname to an icon to use for the CD-ROM, as it appears in My Computer. This may be a feature only available on Windows XP. It may contain spaces and be over 16 characters (unlike the CD-ROM Volume Name). This is different from the CD-ROM Volume Name. 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.
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