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How to play Age of Mythology without the disk?

Asked by: Mikeyy300

I installed Age of Mythology for Mac on my computer legally using a disk and want to playa without the disk? I have seen many people click on the symbol for Age of Mythology have a sign that says please insert disk and then click on the little disk symbol on that sign and it works. But when I click on the little disk my computer just comes up with that error message. What do I do?

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Answers

 

by: Frosty555Posted on 2008-09-14 at 18:56:24ID: 22475535

If you have a legal copy of the game, you may rip an "image" of the CD to your hard drive in ISO format. And then, you can use various programs to "mount" that ISO as a virtual cdrom drive. In theory the game can't tell the difference between a mounted virtual drive, and a real cdrom drive with a cd in it. In reality, it's hit or miss, some games detect it and fail anyways, some don't.

Tools that are capable of ripping your CD to iso, and then subsequently mounting it include:

PowerISO - http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm
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Daemon Tools - http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php?catid=5&mode=ViewCategory

And there are of course the totally illegal ways of doing it - e.g. attempting to bypass the protection of the game by varous devious means. That we are not allowed to talk about ;)

 

by: Frosty555Posted on 2008-09-14 at 18:59:51ID: 22475547

While some people consider ripping CD's to ISO format to be piracy, I personally do not. The reason is that there are a number of legal advantages to running your games via ISOs instead of keeping the physical CDs:

- ISOs can serve as a means of backing up your games - cd's can get scratched / lost
- ISOs are stored on your computer. They are always with you.
- Mounted ISO files run much faster than CDROM drives, = better game performance
- You can mount many virtual drives. Usually as many as you have drive letters for. Which means you don't have the "please insert disk 2", "please insert disk 3", "please insert disk 263" etc. problem.

Of course, distributing that ISO to other people would be piracy. So you shouldn't do that.

 

by: Mikeyy300Posted on 2008-09-14 at 19:49:39ID: 22475711

None of the links you gave me for those downloads are capable with Mac. My game is on the mac so I need it for the mac.

 

by: Frosty555Posted on 2008-09-14 at 20:13:54ID: 22475759

Oh, I didn't see the mac part. Well, macs can natively mount ISOs, DMGs and a few others. So all you need to do is rip the cd to and ISO. Toast Titanium can probably do that if you have it. I think you can also do it directly from the terminal if you are comfortable using that. See this page:

http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2006/08/14/create-iso-cd-dvd-image-with-mac-os-x-tiger-10-4

Basically you use the "dd" command from the terminal to create an ISO. From there it should be mountable.

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