WinCDEmu

WinCDEmu is a Windows program ( 32 and 64 bit) to emulate optical drive. The program has been developed since 2008 by Ivan Shcherbakov (Russia). The source code is freely available as open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License ( LGPL).

WinCDEmu supported in version 3.4 the following formats: ISO, CUE, IMG, BIN, NRG, MDF / MDS, CCD and RAW formats. WinCDEmu is part of the open source DVD and was 13.0 Software Tip of the day at the computer screen, on 23 December 2009.

Technical details

Like other emulators this type virtualize WinCDEmu optical drives ( eg CD or DVD ). It previously called memory images of the optical media are created to then play from the hard disk in a virtual disk. WinCDEmu can even create such images. After installing WinCDEmu it suffices to double- click a file in one of the supported formats, so that they can respond with a letter as a virtual drive to "mount", ie as a drive. To eject CD / DVD images again, it does not require a system-tray - program, but it takes is a new double-clicking on the concerned file, or right-click on the appropriate drive and pressing the eject function.

The virtual drive is thereby integrated into the operating system that it seems as if befände an additional drive in the computer used. For the user, it differs in the service not of physical drives. Power can be saved especially in notebooks, because the hard disk on which is the virtual drive, consumes less electricity than a DVD drive.

Tests

Chip.de verdict: " WinCDEmu is probably the easiest way to mount and perform an image file. " Said Jon L. Jacobi from the American computer magazine PC World that the software had received his highest praise that the Software, after the test may establish on its main systems. " As a matter of fact, WinCDEmu Has received the highest form of praise I can dole out -. It's made ​​the leap from my VMs and test bed ontological my main system "