CD for MAC platform?

[moop]

Can I use somehow presentation done by AutoPlay 4.0 Studio on Apple MAC?

Tnanks
Martin

[Corey]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

Not at this time unfortunately.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Derek]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

... unless you wish to write a front-end for it for the MAC, since the base of AMS is xml - it could work!

[TJ_Tigger]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

NOt only that, but you would need burning software that writes CDs that are readable in a MAC. I use Easy CD and I don't think the CDs will work in a MAC. I am not a MACophile so I have no clue on how they work, do they have an autoplay function similar to PCs? If so are there any free or shareware versions out there that can be used to create an autoplay file and point to the ams file? Just curious if anyone has done it.

[pagedown]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

Yeah the Mac is a diff animal, we have some here, but the PC dominates our center. They use Toast for the burning software i think. I have to say though, the Mac is on a serious comeback.......

[Corey]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

Yes, pagedown is right, it's the year of the Mac.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[antjedi]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

All macs since the early '90s can read disks (floppy, zip, CD, what-have-you) formated for PCs, they also can read ISO9660 CD's, as well as their own HFS/HFS+ format, and OSX can now read NSF disks too...

There is an autoplay of sorts, but it was never used by developers, and is usually off by default...The only things that use it are a small number of movie disks. ALL DVD and Audio CD's do autoplay by default though...

Oh, and Toast (Made by Roxio) is the most popular CD burning software, but there are others...OS 9 and OSX have CD burning builtin for Audio and Data CD's...

[pagedown]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

Antjedi,

Good info...

[antjedi]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

AH, one other thing to note, when I say "can read disks" I mean it can show files, folders, etc... and open files that are compatable (like jpg, html, txt, word docs, pdfs, etc...), but they won't run PC .exe programs of course...otherwise they would be PC's [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[eric_darling]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

Toast is perfectly capable of formatting multi-partitioned CD-ROMs (these partitions can be made to share media across partitions flawlessly - it's a snap). It's a beautiful thing, and the only way to author cross-platform. Macs rule on cross-platform because Windows developers couldn't care less, really, and therefore don't develop much software that handles these kinds of capabilities. Another reason to have at least one Mac in your shop.

[eric_darling]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

but they won't run PC .exe programs of course

Actually, that's not entirely true... If you run Virtual PC on your Mac, you can run .exe files, so it is possible.

http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc5m.html

[moop]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

This is an avalanche of replies!!!! Meny thanks!
Good tip for Toast antjedi...
meybe the MAC/PC compatible multimedia CD is here?

1.Make a presentation in Autoplaystudio

2.burn multi-platform CD with Toast burning software

3.add distribution installation (if exist) of Virtual PC on CD

oups ? Toast is for OS only?

[eric_darling]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

No, I don't think there is a freely distributable version of Virtual PC, unfortunately.

Toast only works on Mac OS, yes. It's definitely a superior product to Roxio's Windows version, Easy CD Creator. I think it beats Nero too, although Nero is pretty great for Windows.

[AaronCooper]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

I have a similiar wish for a MAC version, but I had to use a Very watered down product called eZedia for the Mac side.
I did have some OS 9 issues that I had to work around.

MAC OS 9.x does have a autoplay function,which using a quicktime extension to run, but a lot people have it turned off due to a virus that uses that as a path.
MAC OS X.x, does NOT have a autoplay function, at this time.

For Cross platform burning , we used CDEverywhere to make a ISO. It worked VERY well. CDEverywhere, allows you to hide or share, folders and files, for each platform. You can have it build the Win autorun and MAC OS 9.x auto launch for you.

[moop]

Re: CD for MAC platform?

It looks like is not really difficult to burn CD MAC/PC compatible if you know how [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img](just the autorun issue)
I have looked into a NERO info and..

Anyway , again many thanks for interesting disscusion!!
If I'll find any interesting news on internet about this problem will tell you immediately!