A: The Plus Edition of Amiga Forever is available for download in a standard, cross-platform 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, including Amiga file system attributes, KX Light boot information, etc. It is also possible to mount an ISO image without burning a CD.
The file is called "ISO image" because originally CDs were recorded using the file system as specified by the ISO 9660 standard. In practice, the image also contains additional data covered by various ISO 9660 extensions, e.g. the Joliet (used by Windows) and Rock Ridge (used by Unix, also with Amiga extensions) file systems, and El Torito boot information.
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 usually a very 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 Amiga Forever 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:
In Nero Burning ROM 6, from the Recorder menu, choose Burn Image
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 StartSmart 6, under Copy and Backup, select Burn Image to Disc
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 Amiga Forever Plus Edition file suffix.
ISO images can also be mounted directly, without burning them to CD. Tools that allow doing this on Windows include:
The Amiga Forever Plus Edition ISO image file can also be used to boot directly from the image, using software like:
