Backing Up Gamess information

[poppe]

Hello,

I just bought AOE III and I would like to back it up. I tend to scratch my games and what not.
Do you all have any advice/programs or anything about copying the game?

Hopefully nothing to complicated because I'm not to good with all of this stuff

 

[eXan]

I use Toast Titanium for all operations with optical disks, except for burning video DVDs of course

 

[poppe]

I use Toast Titanium for all operations with optical disks, except for burning video DVDs of course

Toast burns Mac/PC Games with no troubles? Just literally say copy and it works?

 

[eXan]

Toast burns Mac/PC Games with no troubles? Just literally say copy and it works?

Yes, I've made a lot of backups of games (both Mac and PC) using Toast and they work. You can either burn them to blank discs or keep on your hard drive/other storage device like I do. When I need to mount one I just insert a DVD with games that came on CD (for example) and mount them from within Toast. Works great!

BTW its the only way I can install games that come on DVDs on my mom's PC laptop (it only has a CD-ROM)

 

[poppe]

Yes, I've made a lot of backups of games (both Mac and PC) using Toast and they work. You can either burn them to blank discs or keep on your hard drive/other storage device like I do. When I need to mount one I just insert a DVD with games that came on CD (for example) and mount them from within Toast. Works great!

BTW its the only way I can install games that come on DVDs on my mom's PC laptop (it only has a CD-ROM)

Oh wow. Ok awesome! Would you want to (and only if you have time) give me a step by step directions to how to do that exactly? I don't have toast but I'll head out to the store and get toast in the next day or so and want to know what to do exactly.

 

[eXan]

Oh wow. Ok awesome! Would you want to (and only if you have time) give me a step by step directions to how to do that exactly? I don't have toast but I'll head out to the store and get toast in the next day or so and want to know what to do exactly.

In the Toast's main window hit the Copy tab, insert the disk you want to copy, then click "Record" in the bottom-right corner of the window. The copy process will start. Just be sure to select the type of copy you want to make (Disk copy, image file etc) in the left slide-out panel.

 

[poppe]

In the Toast's main window hit the Copy tab, insert the disk you want to copy, then click "Record" in the bottom-right corner of the window. The copy process will start. Just be sure to select the type of copy you want to make (Disk copy, image file etc) in the left slide-out panel.

Do I want an image file?

Also how hard is it to copy games like AOE III? I heard Microsoft is a little hard to copy but that was coming from someone who uses Windows.

 

[eXan]

Do I want an image file?

Also how hard is it to copy games like AOE III? I heard Microsoft is a little hard to copy but that was coming from someone who uses Windows.

Image file is just a copy of a disk sitting on a storage divice alongside other files. You can burn later those images to blank cd/dvd if you like and it will work just the same way the original one did.

Saving images is also useful if you dont have the proper disk burner in your machine, so you can burn it on another one.

But you can just select a "disk copy", insert your disk, click record, when its done eject that disk and insert blank one, copying will start automatically as far as I remember

 

[poppe]

Image file is just a copy of a disk sitting on a storage divice alongside other files. You can burn later those images to blank cd/dvd if you like and it will work just the same way the original one did.

Saving images is also useful if you dont have the proper disk burner in your machine, so you can burn it on another one.

But you can just select a "disk copy", insert your disk, click record, when its done eject that disk and insert blank one, copying will start automatically as far as I remember

thats fricken awesome!!!

 

[poppe]

Yes, I've made a lot of backups of games (both Mac and PC) using Toast and they work. You can either burn them to blank discs or keep on your hard drive/other storage device like I do. When I need to mount one I just insert a DVD with games that came on CD (for example) and mount them from within Toast. Works great!

BTW its the only way I can install games that come on DVDs on my mom's PC laptop (it only has a CD-ROM)

HOw are you getting past the copy protection on the games?

 

[eXan]

HOw are you getting past the copy protection on the games?

Do games even have it?

 

[poppe]

Do games even have it?

Yes pretty sure....