Arafasoft Virtual Drive Creator is a small but very useful application used to create virtual drives.
Drive-mapping is similar to the DOS command SUBST, but Arafasoft Virtual Drive Creator is much more than SUBST, it is very easy to use with a good GUI interface and it can restore all virtual drives automatically on windows restarting.

Arafasoft Virtual Drive Creator is included in Power AutoPlay Menu creator Professional, so if you have downloaded Power AutoPlay Menu creator Professional, you needn’t download it again.

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SD4 Sucks attempts to hide any installed virtual drives you may have which can cause games that use lame copy-protections from running if they find out you do.

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Best product for optical media emulation. All DAEMON Tools features are now available in one solution — DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced.

Use full DAEMON Tools Pro functionality: create images using preset profiles, compress data, split image files, protect your image information, burn to CD/DVD, emulate not only CD/DVD but also HD DVD and Blu-ray drives.

Plus get even more virtual CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray drives. With DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced you have ability to create 32 virtual devices.

Only DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced has a special feature for advanced users — possibility to emulate not only SCSI but also IDE virtual devices.

If all English letters are already assigned to devices and there is no free one left then you can still create virtual devices but without letters. With DAEMON Tools Pro it is possible!

But if your drive doesn’t have a letter you won’t see it in My Computer. How to get mounted image data on such drive then? DAEMON Tools Pro lets you assign folder to virtual drive and then access your virtual disc data opening this assigned folder in My Computer.

Do you have collection of different disc images types where each has some specificity? Can’t you protect some images due to their format restrictions? Do you want all images in catalog to have a single format? — Convert your image files to Media Descriptor format (*.mds/*.mdf files). It is DAEMON Tools native format and supports all DT Pro functionality. Feel free to use variety of tools and possibilities with MDS/MDF format for disc images.

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Professional but not Advanced product that offers essential tools for emulation and image making. Wide functionality at reasonable price.

Create image files of your original discs with DAEMON Tools Pro Standard. Use preset profiles to save exact data copy of many media types. Have your expensive media stored safely on your computer for instant retrieval at the click of a button. No more searching for the correct disc or software application install disc, everything is at your finger tips.

DAEMON Tools Pro Standard enables you to emulate not only CD/DVD drives but also HD DVD and Blu-ray ones. The maximum number of virtual drives that you can mount with images simultaneously is 16.

DAEMON Tools Pro Standard enables you to compress data while making an image file and save your hard drive space.

Do you want to protect your image? Just set the unique password before start the disc imaging process. And only the ones who know the password will be able to mount that image and get its content.

Are you going to create the disc image but the image file size is too big to save it on available media? Using DAEMON Tools Pro Standard you can split the image file to several parts and save every one to separate discs. It is like making multivolume archive with your favorite archiver.

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Game Jackal Pro is the ultimate “must have” killer app for the PC gamer! If you, like most gamers, find it annoying looking for and inserting the CD-ROM for your favorite game each time you play it, then Game Jackal Pro is for you.
Keeping your gaming investment safe: One major concern gamers have is the CD’s life span. The CD-ROM for a popular game may be inserted and removed many hundreds of times, this of course leads to the inevitable “Unable to read” error and ultimately a trip to the trash.

Unleash your games and go gaming “cd free” in seconds: Using Game Jackal Pro eliminates the need to insert the CD-ROM before playing your favorite title, therefore allowing you to fire up your favorite game in seconds.

Easy to use: Game Jackal Pro provides the user with a powerful and easy to use interface to go gaming “cd free”. It does this without modifying any of your game’s files or installing any virtual drives on your system. Simply select the game you want to play from the Game Jackal Pro interface, or create a desktop shortcut for even faster access.

Image mode: Image mode adds support for games that need to stream data directly from the CD or DVD during game play.

Keep young eyes from playing games that may be not right for them: Game Jackal Pro comes complete with a feature called Guardian Control, this feature allows restrictions to be placed on game profiles.

Young gamers can make short work of a game CD: Being able to pack away the game CD has proven to be extremely popular with parents of young gamers, where a game can be destroyed in weeks!

There’s no other product like it: The simple fact is that Game Jackal Pro stands alone. There’s no other product on the market that delivers the flexibility and functionality that Game Jackal Provides.

Guardian Control
Ok… so Game Jackal Provides you with a way to protect game CD’s from the little hands of a young gamer, but how do we then stop these same young gamers from playing games that may not be appropriate?
Game Jackal Pro contains a very unique and powerful feature called Guardian Control, this allows a game profile to be password protected thereby ensuring that only specific users (i.e. those knowing the password) can play the game. And because your CD-ROM’s are now put away for safe keeping, there’s no fear of accidentally leaving a disc in the drive for a young gamer to find.

So now that we have limited what a young gamer can play, wouldn’t it be great if we could limit when games could be played? Well once again Game Jackal Pro provides a way… Guardian Control also allows rules to be created that detail when and how long games can be played. These rules can be as simple as defining a time (i.e. between 6:30PM and 8:30PM) during the week days in which games can be played to complex rules that involve many periods in which a young person can go gaming.

Play games and run CD/DVD applications without physical discs at 200X speed – plus, the build-in Virtual Hard Drive allows you to run games and applications up to 340 times faster in RAM.

Features:

• Convert your CDs and DVDs into Virtual CDs

• Run files in RAM up to 340 times faster than on your hard drive.

• Run virtual CDs with access rates up to 200 times faster than physical discs

• Virtual CD Creation: Copy CD/DVDs into Virtual CDs with the click of a button. No more need for physical CDs ever again.

• Custom VCD Creation: Create custom VCDs with favorite tracks, expansion packs, custom programs, and documentation.

• RAM Disk Support: VirtualDrive Pro comes with a full version of Virtual Hard Drive Pro. Run applications up to 340 times faster in RAM with the simple click of a button.

• Multiple Disc Play: Play up to 23 virtual CDs at the same time! Unlike physical CD drives, you are not limited by the number of CD/DVD drives you have.

• Virtual CD Library: Archive your virtual CDs in a searchable library. Copy them onto different hard drives or computers, create backup CDs – its your choice!

• Increased performance: Virutal CDs can run up to 200 times faster than physical discs. Plus, Virtual CDs have no spin-up delay, unlike physical discs.

VirtualDrive Pro makes it a snap to create custom VCDs with favorite tracks, expansion packs, custom programs, and documentation. Pre-load your virtual drives to run several VCDs simultaneously, swapping them out via hot keys to avoid load times and spin up delays. Your virtual drives will show up as drive letters in Windows Explorer, which views them as physical drives, even though they are not!

System Requirements:

CPU: Intel Pentium 233 or higher
RAM: 256MB or more
Hard Drive: 50MB free space
Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, or Vista 64 and 32-bit systems

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MagicDisc is freeware. It is very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs. For anyone who deals with CD-based programs – it is a MUST. MagicDisc allows you to use almost all CD/DVD image without burning them onto CD or DVD in order to easily access your favorite games, music, or software programs.

It works like a real CD/DVD-ROM: You can run programs, play games, or listen to music from your virtual CD-ROM. Allowing you to run your game images at over 200x faster than from a conventional CD/DVD-ROM. MagicDisc is a powerful utility that uses a unique combination of options to ensure a perfect back-up every time. Partner with MagicISO, Your original games/program discs can be safely stored away, MagicISO mean that you always have your expensive media stored safely as CD/DVD image file  on your hard drive, and use them with MagicDisc just like using the original discs. At the office: Program discs and many other applications generally require the original disc to be in the computer’s CD-ROM drive. This restricts the amount of people in your office who can have access to the same software at the same time without the cost of additional discs. MagicDisc virtual drives resolve that problem for you. No more hunting around the offices for that elusive disc you need to run your application, everything you require is just a click away.

All supported CD/DVD image formats:

• BIN              (CDRWin)
• IMA/IMG          (Generic disk images)
• CIF              (Easy CD Creator)
• NRG              (Nero – Burning ROM)
• IMG/CCD          (CloneCD)
• MDF/MDS          (Fantom CD)
• VCD              (Farstone Virtual Drive)
• VaporCD          (Noum Vapor CDROM)
• P01/MD1/XA       (Gear)
• VC4/000          (Virtual CD)
• VDI              (Virtuo CD Manager)
• C2D              (WinOnCD)
• BWI/BWT          (BlinkWrite)
• CDI              (DiscJuggler)
• TAO/DAO          (Duplicator)
• PDI              (Instant Copy)

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Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.
Probably the best virtual drive software, Virtual CloneDrive allows you to enjoy the freedom of a virtual drive and is completely free.