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#1 2009-05-07 12:32 pm
- morpheus0061
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- Registered: 2003-11-03
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old iMac won't recognize game CDs
Yo,
I bought an old iMac off of ebay a few weeks back, and wasted no time in installing various old games that I've had sitting around for years (Warcraft II, The Dig, Nanosaur, etc.). Surprisingly enough, when I try to play them, the Mac tells me that it can't recognize the disc and offers the option to initialize or eject it. I can't play Warcraft or these other games without the disc, but the Mac refuses to recognize them... which is odd, seeing as I can open up the discs in Finder and browse them just fine. I can even play the audio tracks on them. But as far as actual game-using goes, I get zilch.
One of the discs prompted me to install a CD-ROM driver or something like that, but the discs worked just fine even after I did that. I'm running System 9.2.2, I don't have any OS installation discs, don't have an Internet connection yet... if that helps.
Any suggestions?
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#2 2009-05-07 5:46 pm
- Pariah
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- From: Belly Of The Beast, Oklahoma!
- Registered: 2001-05-24
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Re: old iMac won't recognize game CDs
Are these burned copies or stamped originals?
I seem to remember installing something called something like CDrom toolkit that fixed a problem I had been having with the Old OS when trying to read burned CDs.
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#4 2009-05-08 5:34 pm
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- From: Belly Of The Beast, Oklahoma!
- Registered: 2001-05-24
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Re: old iMac won't recognize game CDs
I bet this is what you need:
Joliet Volume Access
http://www.tucows.com/preview/206410
"and it's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
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