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11 Oct 2024 11:09:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Your favorite Age of Myst?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 13 Dec 2007 09:23:28
Message: <47614060@news.povray.org>

> In article <47607804$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
>> I was also under the impression there were unofficial ways of putting 
>> all the content on your HD, but I don't think I ever bothered.
>>
> Easiest way under Windows, and probably Linux and WINE too, is to use 
> something like DaemonTools. Make an ISO image of the disk(s), then set 
> of the tools to support as many virtual CD drives as you need, and 
> assign them to the ISO images. Never had the disk space for it, and 
> finding something that *can* make an ISO from most of the damn CDs they 
> make now is a bit hard, since a lot of them have bloody encryption on 
> them. DaemonTools will emulate some of the scemes needed to "read" an 
> ISO that has been encoded with them, but you "still" have to get the ISO 
> on the drive somehow.
> 

Well, for Riven, you can just copy the .MHK files from all disks into 
your Data directory. In fact, you could "build yourself a DVD version". 
I think you need to edit one .ini file that maps datafiles to discs, and 
disc numbers to disc labels.


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