Space Fantasy Zone

[nat]

The trouble is, I can't burn the ISO/CUE sets that Turbo games come in on my computer at home. If anyone knows how to do that on a Mac, please fill me in. I've tried countless times and made at least 20 coasters.

I have Toast 8.something. Toast wants everything in BIN/CUE.

I'm a Mac guy too and I've at least gotten Toast to burn me the disc properly.  Problem is the burn speed screws up the disc for the Turbo.  I can't figure out how to throttle down the speed sufficiently for the Mac burner.

D-Lite, could you fill me in on how you go Toast to at least burn an ISO/CUE set properly? What version of Toast do you use?

[nat]

I am the king of necroposting!

I finally have the ability to burn ISO/CUE sets. So I need an ISO/CUE set of Space Fantasy Zone. One with ALL THE MUSIC TRACKS INTACT. It seems the popular image floating around has at least one track of dead air, and two tracks that truncate after a couple seconds and are dead air for the rest of the duration.

The only image I can find via Google is the bad rip mentioned above.

I'd love a MEGAUPLOAD or FILESHARE link to a good rip.

Thanks. When I get home I expect PMs with more links to good rips than I know what to do with.

[Necromancer]

In my exhausting quest to find a perfectly clean rip of Space Fantasy Zone, I learned (via disc ripper extraordinaire Squaresoft74) that there is no such thing.  This is a prototype after all, and unfortunately the music is one of the things that wasn't completed before the project was abandoned.  I'll send you a PM of what I have, if I can ever get mediafire to cooperate.

[nat]

Thank you. I'm still at work so I haven't looked at what you sent, so it is my understanding then that we are stuck playing the game with some levels lacking music altogether? In the copy I have, stage 3 for example has 5 seconds of music and then 4 minutes of dead air before repeating those 5 seconds again. Is this correct?

Black Tiger, don't you have a copy of the actual game (as opposed to an ISO)? Can you confirm this?

[Joe Redifer]

I would rip it for you with Toast, but Toast won't let me create an image file.  Though Mac aficionados will be quick to tell you otherwise, CD-R burning/copying on the Mac is severely limited.  Nero on the PC PWNZ.

[nat]

CD-R burning/copying on the Mac is severely limited.  Nero on the PC PWNZ.

I agree. And the sad part is there is absolutely NO reason an app like Nero couldn't be created for the Mac.

I own a Mac running 10.4, so what I did was install Parallels with an old copy of XP Pro I had laying around. I also installed an old copy of Nero I had laying around and it works like a dream with the Mac's built-in SuperDrive. I can now burn away to my heart's content! Yay me!

[Necromancer]

I agree. And the sad part is there is absolutely NO reason an app like Nero couldn't be created for the Mac.

One reason: the Apple zealots would have to admit to themselves that Macs are not adept at every task.

[Turbo D]

Did you dudes know that Mac was originally calling their computers "PC", rofl. Apparently IBM stole the name from them 

[Necromancer]

Did you dudes know that Mac was originally calling their computers "PC", rofl. Apparently IBM stole the name from them 

I think not - the first Mac was the Apple I.  The description 'personal computer' was applied to many computers before the IBM Personal Computer 5150 (shortened to IBM PC), but the IBM was the first to use the term as part of the actual model name.

[nat]

The term "Personal Computer" or "PC" for short predates both Macintosh and IBM both. It was a general term used to describe any kind of home computer regardless of make or model, to differentiate them from the room-sized mainframes and such.

Somewhere along the line, probably around the time 8088-based IBM PC clones started showing up on the market, the term's usage shifted to include only IBM PCs "and compatible."

Technically speaking, if you really want to be anal, the term "PC" is still valid when referring to a home computer whether it be a PC-clone, Mac, or otherwise. It's just that very few people in today's society will know what you mean if you refer to your Mac as a "PC."