I'm burning a three-disc set of Starship Titanic, but the files are in .toast. Should I decompress the files, then stick them all in a disc to be burned? Or should I stick the .toast in a CD-R?
EDIT: Nevermind, I decompressed the .toast and stuck the files in a CD-R. Unless there are invisible files I need to worry about...
If you're running an emulator, just add the .toast files to the emulator's drives list like the hard disk file where you've installed the classic Mac OS to boot the emulator.
What I do, is to change the .TOAST suffix for the .NRG (NERO)
and burn it as an Image disc using NERO and I've had no problems with that,
I think I should mention that I use Windows XP for that.
If I don't want to burn the game and run the games directly within the Mac OS 8 environment,
(so they run much faster)
such as the case of the Journeyman Project and Majesty fantasy kingdom games,
I just mount them using the TOAST Application.
There was a problem with decompression and sticking it on a blank CD...see, what I do is copy the files from the iMac G5 (running Mac OS 10.5.7) to the iMac G3 (running Mac OS 9.2.2). Both iMacs have problems. The G5 has a graphical motherboard problem only noticed after the recall ended (causing terrible graphics distortion in anything graphic-related) and lost its Classic Environment capabilities after 10.5. The G3's speakers and monitors are dying a slow painful death (occasional flashes on the monitor, and bass is too crackly, so I use headphones). Plus, a partition in the hard drive left a little over 2GB for the Mac OS 9 while the Mac OS X side gets 40GB (14 of which is unused). I can't really store the games in the Mac OS X side (the mouse gets "jumpy" when the window is opened).
Anyway, I tried copying the RTGII disc image files to a CD-R, ran the OS 9 installer, and now the thing won't start up because it needs to see the actual disc. So now I have to reburn the CD as just a CD-R with the .toast in it.
If you use toast to mount a disk image, it can usually fool the copy protection. Also, did you just put the image file in a CD? You have to either load the image to the "Copy" tab and burn a cd, or mount the image and drag it to the "Data" tab (names may vary, I use Toast 6).
Toast is on both computers. I only reburned the CD last night, so I'll test it today.
