A: The Plus Edition
of Amiga Forever
and
C64 Forever is available for download in a standard
"ISO image" file. This means that you can use
a CD-recording device on your computer to
burn a CD which is identical to the master
CD. It is also possible to mount an ISO image without burning a
CD.
An ISO image describes a complete CD (with multiple files in it), it is
not a single file that is copied over to a CD. In order to produce a more compact download, the
ISO image file itself is contained inside a downloadable ZIP
archive. The ISO image file must be
extracted
(copied from the ZIP file to the hard disk) before use.
Writing the ISO image is a simple
process whereby the file is selected for burning in the CD-R
software, and then the CD is written.
Important: the ISO file
must not be written to the CD as a file (e.g. with a
drag-and-drop operation), as this would result in a CD with a
single file, which is not the intended CD, but just a
backup of the ISO image file. Rather, the ISO image file must be
written using the special command used to burn a CD image to a
CD.
The following examples
illustrate how slightly different steps apply to different
CD-R programs on Windows:
- On Windows 7 or higher, simply double-click or right-click the .iso file to open the Burn
Disc Image dialog (no additional software is required)
- In Nero
Burning ROM 6, 7 and 8, from the Recorder menu, choose Burn Image
(click Cancel if the New Compilation dialog opens when
starting Nero)
- In older versions of Nero Burning ROM, from
the File menu, choose Burn Image
- In Nero Express 6, under What would you like
to burn?, select Disc Image or Saved Project
- In Nero Express 7 or 8, under Image,
Project, Copy, select Disc Image or Saved Project
- In Nero StartSmart 6, under Copy and Backup,
select Burn Image to Disc
- In Nero StartSmart 7, under Backup, select
Burn Image to Disc, then proceed as in Nero Express 7
- In Nero StartSmart 8, under Rip and Burn,
select Copy Disc, then proceed as in Nero Express 8
- In Roxio
Easy CD Creator 5, from the File menu, choose Record CD from
CD Image, making sure that "Files of type" drop-down is set
to "ISO Image Files (*.iso)"
- In Sonic RecordNow, select Burn Image from
the Backup Projects tab
- In Asimware (now
Iomega) HotBurn Pro 2,
select Advanced Data CD, then, from the Tools menu, select
Write a CD from an ISO Image File
- With Alex Feinman's
ISO Recorder 2
installed, right-click an ISO file and select Copy Image to
CD
As you can see the exact location and name of
the burning option may vary slightly across applications and
versions, but it is present in all software.
Although ".iso" is the most popular file name
suffix used for ISO images, other suffixes are sometimes used
too. These include ".img", ".bin", ".cif" and ".nrg". If the
CD-recording software does not appear to accept or list .iso
files in its file dialog, try and select "All Documents (*.*)",
or rename the ISO file suffix.
ISO images can also be mounted directly, without
burning them to CD. Tools that allow doing this on Windows
include:
The C64 Forever ISO image is not bootable. The Amiga Forever Plus Edition ISO image
is bootable and the ISO file
can also be used to boot directly from the image, using software
like:
