Disk Images? Virtual Drives?

I just changed from pc to mac and am a little lost...
On my pc to use a disk without the disk, you created an iso image, installed some sort of virtual drives, and mounted the image on the drive.
But I've been told that on mac you don't have to use any virtual drive, that finder will handle everything for you and mount it somehow?
So my question, if I use disk utility, the cd/dvd master option, and create a disk image of a cd or dvd, what extension should it have(iso,cdr,dmg), and is it true that I do not need anything else to utilize it? Thanks in advance

Actually disk utility will mount the image for you whether it's a cdr, iso or dmg. Depending on what type of image you create, when you double click it a small DU windows opens to show progress and then it mounts the drive in the Finder. You would see it on the left side of the Finder window or on the Desktop.

Thanks a bunch, it mounts fine now. One final question if you happen to know.
If the mounted image is of a game(Brood War) why does it still insist I insert the disk when the game is run? On my pc, once the image was mounted to a virtual drive, the game was content. Any help would be nice.

Is your virtual drive also a virtual device. Mac games tend to query the device versus the volume.

I think you're right, but I'm not entirely sure. On my pc I used daemon tools, a virtual drive app, to create 3 extra drives. If I need to create a virtual "device" on my mac, how would I go about that?

Just some context information: Once I mount it, I can view all the files that I can normally view off the disk, I can even run them. So the files are the same, but the game doesn't seem to reference the mounted image.

Correct.

Also a lot of game designers also purposefully put bad sectors on their discs so when you make copies they don't duplicate correctly.

I know that this particular game does not have that specific addition, and that the image will run. But how do I get a "virtual device" for mac? What do I need to run the image in place of the disk?

What you are asking to do sounds suspiciously like something I might get a warning for helping you with. Good luck though.

I obviously own the game, and am simply trying to find a way to avoid lugging it around. Also using images is a nice way to decrease load times and keep my actual drive open for something else.

Celeramo said:

I obviously own the game, and am simply trying to find a way to avoid lugging it around. Also using images is a nice way to decrease load times and keep my actual drive open for something else.

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Good point, but people around here tend to be uptight about this kind of stuff.