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Editor's Rating:
Not rated
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Downloads:
413,500
- Operating Systems:
Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Additional Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP/XP 64 Bit
- Limitations:
30-day, 6-drive trial
- Date Added:
March 09, 2006
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Publisher's description of Alcohol 52% 1.9.5.3
From Alcohol Software:Emulation software, supports 25 plus languages. Can handle up to 31 virtual CD and DVD-ROM drives, all at once. The reading speed of a virtual CD-ROM is 200X. This means you can play a CD from the virtual CD-ROM with 200X reading speed. Supports normal CD and DVD and CD RAW sub-channel reading methods: RAW reading method enables to emulate all CDs. Version 1.9.5 build 3105 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
Version 1.9.5.3823 updated Virtual Drive engine, updated Alcohol Command Launcher and Shell Extension Context Menu to support image files with Unicode file names. Added support for more devices.
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Version: Alcohol 52% 1.9.5.3
"Good program, but there are freewares that do the same thing."
Pros: For those of you who don't understand this program, it's used to "emulate" a data drive so that you can use files in a burned format without needing to burn them. Basically, a DVD/CD burned has cue, bin, iso, etc files that you can't just click and play like exe, wav, mp3 files etc. They're in a specific format that can only be read by disk drives. Before programs like this, you had to take these files and burn them to cd/dvds and then run them from the phsyical cd or dvd. Now, you simply "mount" these files (called image files, but don't be confused, they're not pictures), onto virtual drives and access them as if the cd/dvd was burned.
Cons: This isn't free. Other tools like Daemon are free. However, I know people who SWEAR BY ALCOHOL as their only virtual drive emulator.
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Version: Alcohol 52% 1.9.5.3
"Works with copy protected games"
Pros: I tried several top cnet-rated games and none of them would work with my copy-protected CDs. Alcohol 52% is definately worth the money if you have a lot of toddler games and your toddler doesn't know how to load CDs yet (or you don't want them to).
Cons: I wish it cost a little less, but you get what you pay for.
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Version: Alcohol 52% 1.9.5.3
Pros: Works, combines creation and reading of .iso files.
Cons: Costs money. I can just use Daemon tools.
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