File extension Details of I00, ICS, IMA, IMG, IMG, IMZ, ISO, ISO, ISO

Here are some programs to use mds files with differents O.S. (It's possible do it in different ways)
Windows: DVD decrypter or imgburn, Alcohol 120% etc.
Linux user's: use mdf2iso
Mac users:
Rename the files with extension i00 to i0x as follows:
- filename.i00 => filename.iso.001
...
- filename.i05 => filename.iso.006
Then use the program Split and Concat to join the files and make an ISO.

If you don't know how to burn the files. Use each program's help guide.

Alcohol 120%

Company / developer:
  Alcohol Software

Alcohol 120%, is a powerful Windows application that makes it easy to create backups of DVDs* and CDs. In addition, the program lets you store your most used CDs as images on your computer, so you can call them up at the click of a button.

Home users make backup copies of their game CDs and movie DVDs*, allowing the kids to treat multimedia disks roughly, without destroying their value.

Librarians and school administrators use Alcohol 120% to archive their institutions' collections of recordable media, protecting themselves against the daily wear and tear that damages discs.

Business users use Alcohol 120% to make duplicate backup copies of software titles, ensuring that they will continue to have access to their licensed software, even if their physical CDs become damaged and unusable.

With Alcohol 120%, you no longer have to worry about CDs or DVDs* getting lost, stolen, or damaged. Duplicate discs work just like the originals, and your entire collection can be archived safely.

CopyMinder

Company / developer:
  Microcosm Ltd.

CopyMinder

CopyMinder is a state-of-the-art software protection and licensing system developed by Microcosm Ltd. It provides a high level of security with the minimum amount of fuss and a level of flexibility that is second to none.

CopyMinder operates differently from all other systems. By careful monitoring of the usage of each installation of your software, it achieves what has, up to now, been thought impossible; hassle free, secure, flexible copy protection.

ISOBuster

Company / developer:
  Smart Projects

Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD or a Blu Ray disc (e.g. BD or HD DVD). Save important documents, precious pictures or video from the family, your only system backup, ... IsoBuster can do it all !

IsoBuster is a highly specialized yet easy to use optical media data recovery tool. It supports all optical disc formats and all common optical disc file-systems. Start up IsoBuster, Insert a disc, select the drive (if not selected already) and let IsoBuster mount the media. IsoBuster immediately shows you all the tracks and sessions located on the media, combined with all file-systems that are present. This way you get easy access, just like explorer, to all the files and folders per file-system. Instead of being limited to one file-system that the OS picks for you, you have access to "the complete picture". Access data from older sessions, access data that your OS (e.g. Windows) does not see or hides from you etc.

IsoBuster full feature list:

• Data recovery from all possible CD, DVD and Blu Ray (BD & HD DVD) formats :
  CD-i, VCD, SVCD, SACD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-MRW, ... DVD-ROM, DVCD, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+MRW, DVD+R Dual Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+RW Dual Layer, DVD+VR, DVD+VRW, DVD-VR, DVD-VRW, DVD-VM, DVD-VFR, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, BD-R SRM, BD-R RRM, BD-R SRM+POW, BD-R SRM-POW, BDAV, BDMV HD DVD-ROM, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-R DL, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RW DL, HD DVD-RAM, HD DVD-Video, ... and many more...
• All device access, media access, data gathering and interpretation is done exclusively by the software. It does not rely on Windows to provide or interpret the data and so can work completely independent from Windows' limitations.
• Better Error handling and several retry-mechanisms to aid you in getting the data anyway.
• The use of both generic and alternative ways to get to the data, get the best out of your CD/DVD-ROM drive.
• The use of primary and secondary file-systems to get to the data and/or make use of file system data that might be ignored or ‘forgotten’ by popular OS. Explore the alternatives.
• CDs stay 'readable' after problems (such as Buffer Under-run, ...)
• Read / Extraction from open sessions.
• All sessions, including older ones, are accessible and can be recovered.
• Supports mounting several virtual sessions inside a single DVD+RW or DVD-RW track
• Read and Extraction of files, CD/DVD images, tracks and sessions from all optical media.
• Scanning for lost UDF files and folders.
• Scanning for lost ISO9660 / Joliet sessions.
• Scanning for files based on their file-signature
• Scanning for IFO / BUP / VOB file-systems on VIDEO and AUDIO DVDs
• Scanning for lost, deleted and orphaned FAT files and folders
• Find lost data on CDs, DVDs, BDs or HD DVDs, created with integrated drag and drop applications, otherwise also known as packet writing software. Optimized, but not exclusive, for :
  Roxio Direct CD, Roxio Drag-to-Disc,
  Ahead / Nero InCD,
  Prassi / Veritas / Sonic DLA,
  VOB / Pinnacle Instant-Write,
  CeQuadrat Packet CD,
  NTI FileCD,
  BHA B's CLiP,
  Mircrosoft Windows XP and VISTA,
  Sony abCD, ...
• Support for Direct CD compressed files. Decompression on the fly.
• Built in UDF Reader, UDF 1.02 (e.g DVDs), UDF 1.5 (e.g. Packet writing on CD-R, DVDR, CD-RW and DVDRW), UDF 2.01, 2.50, 2.60 (e.g. BD-R SRM+POW), ...
• Find lost pictures created and saved to CD or DVD with Sony Mavica, other digital cameras or other devices with embedded UDF write functionality.
• Find lost movies created and saved to CD,DVD, BD or HD DVD, with Hitachi, other digital cameras or other devices with embedded UDF write functionality.
• Auto find extensions based on file content to try and give an appropriate name to an orphaned file. This built in file identifier assigns the proper extension to the file so that Windows applications can open the file. Only needed for orphaned files without a name.
• Support for Mount Rainier CD-RW and DVD+RW discs in MRW compatible and non-MRW compatible drives. Auto detection and automatic remapping which can be switched off or forced at all times. Built in MRW remapper / reader. (Built in Method 3 remapper)
• Support for formatted CD-RW discs mounted in very old drives that do not know the CD-RW fixed packet format yet. Auto detection and automatic remapping which can be switched of or forced at all times. Built in Method 2 remapper.
• Built in HFS Reader, supporting HFS and HFS+, the Apple Mac file systems.
• Transparent built in support for Mac Resource Fork extensions in the ISO9660 File-System
• Transparent built in support for Mac Resource Fork extensions in the UDF File-System
• Supports multiple Mac Partitions on one medium (e.g. multiple partitions on a CD or in a dmg file)
• Includes a vast range of features for Mac files support on PC (HFS, ISO9660, UDF), including Mac Binary extraction of files.
• Recover data from blanked or quick formatted DVD+RW media.
• Mpg (*.dat) Extraction and dat2mpg 'in one' from SVCD and VCD
• Ability to create managed image files (*.IBP / *.IBQ).
• Enormous file system coverage and different ways to use them all (find the one suited best for your needs). CDs and DVDs often have different file-systems pointing to the same files. This offers possibilities.
• Rock Ridge (e.g. for Commodore users, Server use, etc.)
• Full FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 support (for instance on DVD-RAM or BD-RE)
• Finds VIDEO and AUDIO IFO / BUP / VOB file-systems independently from other file-systems
• Transparent support for (open) DVD+VR(W) discs, remapping of the content etc. Open +VR discs' files can be seen and extracted right away.
• Show (and allow to extract) the Nero project file if available on the optical disc
• Support for the CD-i file-system and the different behavior from drives trying to mount a CD-i disc.
• Information and file system properties (a must for FS developers)
• CD/DVD/HD DVD/BD Surface scan to see if there are physical read errors.
• Opens checksum files (*.md5) and automatically verifies the image with the checksum file.
• Check if all files and folders are readable without having to extract all data to HD.
• Single sector extraction. Extraction of CD/DVD/BD/HD DVD blocks (e.g. for engineering purposes)
• Sector Viewer. Check a sector's content in IsoBuster's editor and print or save to HD. Engineers and computer savvy people find missing data making use of Sector View.
• Compile (and edit, save, print) lists of all files that contain physical read errors.
• Compile lists of all files, including their Logical block address (ideal to find the logical play order for mp3 CDs)
• CD-Text support from CD and various image files ( *.PXI, *.CCD, *.B5T and *.CUE image files).
• Creation of image files (*.ibp and *.ibq,*.iso, *.bin, *.tao)
• Creation of checksum files (*.md5)
• Creation of cue sheet files (*.cue)
• Conversion of all supported image files to bin/cue files.
• Handles opening of multi-file image files.
• Extraction of Audio tracks to wave files.
• Play audio analogue. Instruct the drive to play the audio through the analogue output.
• Ability to pause a number of seconds between retries to allow the drive to "recover" (useful for older drives in combination with marginally readable media)
• Creation of multi-file image files or disc spanning to specified size
• Support for bootable CDs and DVDs. Support for the El Torito standard.
  Perfect aid to slipstream Windows installation CDs
• Add, Edit, Delete files found based on their signatures.
• Show file extents. (Show the different parts of a file, when it is fragmented on disc)
• Ability to add/edit extents on custom created files (e.g. Lost and Found and Customizable file system)
• Ability to add a customizable file system (where you can add, edit files, for engineering purposes)
• Support for command line parameters
• Comprehensive help file (also available online)

IsoBuster interprets CD image files, such as:

*.DAO (Duplicator), *.TAO (Duplicator), *.ISO (Nero, BlindRead, Creator), *.BIN (CDRWin), *.IMG (CloneCD), *.CCD (CloneCD) , *.CIF (Creator), *.FCD (Uncompressed), *.NRG (Nero), *.GCD (Prassi), *.P01 (Toast), *.C2D (WinOnCD), *.CUE (CDRWin), *.CDI (DiscJuggler), *.CD (CD-i OptImage), *.GI (Prassi PrimoDVD), *.PXI (PlexTools), *.MDS (Alcohol), *.MDF (Alcohol), *.VC4 (Virtual CD), *.000 (Virtual CD), *.B5T (BlindWrite), *.B5I (BlindWrite), *.DMG (Apple Macintosh), *.IBP (IsoBuster), *.IBQ (IsoBuster), *.NCD (NTI).

IsoBuster also features Language support for over forty languages.

Blindwrite

Company / developer:
  VSO-Software

What is BlindWrite:

Blindwrite, your ultimate game copy software back up tool! BlindWrite extracts all the characteristics of your media to your harddrive to reproduce a working copy of your media. It allows you to protect your investments against damage caused by children, scratches or by frequent use. Your personal CD or DVD backups can even be run directly from your computer using a virtual drive (i.e. Daemon Tools). Blind write's Game Copy Software supports a large number of formats and is regularly updated to support the latest technology. Combined with CopyToDVD, it is a complete set of software for all your backup needs: data files, 1:1 CD/DVD backups, audio CDs from music files and DVD movies. A must-have!

Blind Write supports all popular CD/DVD writers and handles every available DVD format (DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R Double Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer).

PowerISO Direct-Access-Archive

Company / developer:
  PowerISO Computing, Inc.

PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. It can process almost all CD-ROM image files including ISO and BIN.

Main Features:

• Support almost all CD/DVD-ROM image file formats (ISO, BIN, NRG, CDI, DAA and so on).
  Note: DAA (Direct-Access-Archive) is an advanced format for image file, which supports some advanced features, such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes. It can be handled directly just like other formats, such as ISO, BIN, ...
• Open and extract ISO File.
• Create ISO file from hard disk files or CD/DVD-ROM.
• Edit an existing ISO file directly.
• Convert image files between ISO/BIN and other formats. PowerISO can convert almost all image file formats to standard ISO format file.
• Make bootable ISO file, get boot information from bootable ISO file.
• Make floppy disk image file.
• Optimize files to save disk space while saving ISO file.
• Mount ISO file with internal virtual drive. You don't need install any other virtual drive software.
• Can be used easily. PowerISO supports shell integration, context menu, drag and drop, clipboard copy paste...

Floppy Image

Company / developer:
  Towodo Software

Create image files of floppy disks and back (for backup, shipping or transfer). Save the image file compressed, uncompressed or as a self-extracting exe. Add descriptions to or convert your old image files. Supports DMF and other non-standard formats. Logically recreate bad sectors when writing floppy disks, allowing for an exact duplicate of your source disk to be created. The self-extracting exe can be fully customized with a picture, license agreement dialog and a text with instructions. Full support for drag-n-drop.

Fetures :

• Create customized Self-Extracting image files from floppy disks.
• Supports all known and unknown file systems (FAT12, Linux Ext2, etc).
• Duplicate copy-protected floppy disks (Windows 2000 or later).
• Supports 360kB, 720kB, 1200kB, 1440kB, 1680kB floppy disk formats.
• Extract information from damaged floppy disks that cannot be read in Windows.
• Save image files as compatible IMG files, compressed IMZ files or self-extracting EXE files.
• Online tooltips for instant help.

Free ISO Burner

Company / developer:
  FreeISOBurner.com

Free ISO Burner can directly burn your ISO and CD/DVD image file to CD-R,CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW,HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, no need mount any "virtual drives" which emulate physical CDs or DVDs, it write any data directly.

Free ISO Burner hide all complex settings, let this program be very simple and easy to use. Click [Open] button to choice one ISO image file (*.iso), insert a blank CD in your CD-RW drive, then click [Burn] to start the disk burning. Users can select the drivers, set the disk volume, select burn speed and change the burn cache size, during the burning user can click [Abort] to abort the burning progress. Free ISO Burner can support bootable CD to image file. User can select [Finalize Disc] in main interface to finalize a disc on which data and music have already been written.

Free ISO Burner is one "100% free" software, it is completely free for personal and non-commercial use, no adware and no spyware, you can use, copy, email, install and uninstall as you want. This program can work with Windows XP, Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit Editions. This program is very small, no need installation, one standalone program can do everything about burn one ISO image for you (if you want to uninstall, just delete the program file); it is portable software, and can run directly from one USB driver.

ISOBuster

Company / developer:
  Smart Projects

Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD or a Blu Ray disc (e.g. BD or HD DVD). Save important documents, precious pictures or video from the family, your only system backup, ... IsoBuster can do it all !

IsoBuster is a highly specialized yet easy to use optical media data recovery tool. It supports all optical disc formats and all common optical disc file-systems. Start up IsoBuster, Insert a disc, select the drive (if not selected already) and let IsoBuster mount the media. IsoBuster immediately shows you all the tracks and sessions located on the media, combined with all file-systems that are present. This way you get easy access, just like explorer, to all the files and folders per file-system. Instead of being limited to one file-system that the OS picks for you, you have access to "the complete picture". Access data from older sessions, access data that your OS (e.g. Windows) does not see or hides from you etc.

IsoBuster full feature list:

• Data recovery from all possible CD, DVD and Blu Ray (BD & HD DVD) formats :
  CD-i, VCD, SVCD, SACD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-MRW, ... DVD-ROM, DVCD, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+MRW, DVD+R Dual Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+RW Dual Layer, DVD+VR, DVD+VRW, DVD-VR, DVD-VRW, DVD-VM, DVD-VFR, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, BD-R SRM, BD-R RRM, BD-R SRM+POW, BD-R SRM-POW, BDAV, BDMV HD DVD-ROM, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-R DL, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RW DL, HD DVD-RAM, HD DVD-Video, ... and many more...
• All device access, media access, data gathering and interpretation is done exclusively by the software. It does not rely on Windows to provide or interpret the data and so can work completely independent from Windows' limitations.
• Better Error handling and several retry-mechanisms to aid you in getting the data anyway.
• The use of both generic and alternative ways to get to the data, get the best out of your CD/DVD-ROM drive.
• The use of primary and secondary file-systems to get to the data and/or make use of file system data that might be ignored or ‘forgotten’ by popular OS. Explore the alternatives.
• CDs stay 'readable' after problems (such as Buffer Under-run, ...)
• Read / Extraction from open sessions.
• All sessions, including older ones, are accessible and can be recovered.
• Supports mounting several virtual sessions inside a single DVD+RW or DVD-RW track
• Read and Extraction of files, CD/DVD images, tracks and sessions from all optical media.
• Scanning for lost UDF files and folders.
• Scanning for lost ISO9660 / Joliet sessions.
• Scanning for files based on their file-signature
• Scanning for IFO / BUP / VOB file-systems on VIDEO and AUDIO DVDs
• Scanning for lost, deleted and orphaned FAT files and folders
• Find lost data on CDs, DVDs, BDs or HD DVDs, created with integrated drag and drop applications, otherwise also known as packet writing software. Optimized, but not exclusive, for :
  Roxio Direct CD, Roxio Drag-to-Disc,
  Ahead / Nero InCD,
  Prassi / Veritas / Sonic DLA,
  VOB / Pinnacle Instant-Write,
  CeQuadrat Packet CD,
  NTI FileCD,
  BHA B's CLiP,
  Mircrosoft Windows XP and VISTA,
  Sony abCD, ...
• Support for Direct CD compressed files. Decompression on the fly.
• Built in UDF Reader, UDF 1.02 (e.g DVDs), UDF 1.5 (e.g. Packet writing on CD-R, DVDR, CD-RW and DVDRW), UDF 2.01, 2.50, 2.60 (e.g. BD-R SRM+POW), ...
• Find lost pictures created and saved to CD or DVD with Sony Mavica, other digital cameras or other devices with embedded UDF write functionality.
• Find lost movies created and saved to CD,DVD, BD or HD DVD, with Hitachi, other digital cameras or other devices with embedded UDF write functionality.
• Auto find extensions based on file content to try and give an appropriate name to an orphaned file. This built in file identifier assigns the proper extension to the file so that Windows applications can open the file. Only needed for orphaned files without a name.
• Support for Mount Rainier CD-RW and DVD+RW discs in MRW compatible and non-MRW compatible drives. Auto detection and automatic remapping which can be switched off or forced at all times. Built in MRW remapper / reader. (Built in Method 3 remapper)
• Support for formatted CD-RW discs mounted in very old drives that do not know the CD-RW fixed packet format yet. Auto detection and automatic remapping which can be switched of or forced at all times. Built in Method 2 remapper.
• Built in HFS Reader, supporting HFS and HFS+, the Apple Mac file systems.
• Transparent built in support for Mac Resource Fork extensions in the ISO9660 File-System
• Transparent built in support for Mac Resource Fork extensions in the UDF File-System
• Supports multiple Mac Partitions on one medium (e.g. multiple partitions on a CD or in a dmg file)
• Includes a vast range of features for Mac files support on PC (HFS, ISO9660, UDF), including Mac Binary extraction of files.
• Recover data from blanked or quick formatted DVD+RW media.
• Mpg (*.dat) Extraction and dat2mpg 'in one' from SVCD and VCD
• Ability to create managed image files (*.IBP / *.IBQ).
• Enormous file system coverage and different ways to use them all (find the one suited best for your needs). CDs and DVDs often have different file-systems pointing to the same files. This offers possibilities.
• Rock Ridge (e.g. for Commodore users, Server use, etc.)
• Full FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 support (for instance on DVD-RAM or BD-RE)
• Finds VIDEO and AUDIO IFO / BUP / VOB file-systems independently from other file-systems
• Transparent support for (open) DVD+VR(W) discs, remapping of the content etc. Open +VR discs' files can be seen and extracted right away.
• Show (and allow to extract) the Nero project file if available on the optical disc
• Support for the CD-i file-system and the different behavior from drives trying to mount a CD-i disc.
• Information and file system properties (a must for FS developers)
• CD/DVD/HD DVD/BD Surface scan to see if there are physical read errors.
• Opens checksum files (*.md5) and automatically verifies the image with the checksum file.
• Check if all files and folders are readable without having to extract all data to HD.
• Single sector extraction. Extraction of CD/DVD/BD/HD DVD blocks (e.g. for engineering purposes)
• Sector Viewer. Check a sector's content in IsoBuster's editor and print or save to HD. Engineers and computer savvy people find missing data making use of Sector View.
• Compile (and edit, save, print) lists of all files that contain physical read errors.
• Compile lists of all files, including their Logical block address (ideal to find the logical play order for mp3 CDs)
• CD-Text support from CD and various image files ( *.PXI, *.CCD, *.B5T and *.CUE image files).
• Creation of image files (*.ibp and *.ibq,*.iso, *.bin, *.tao)
• Creation of checksum files (*.md5)
• Creation of cue sheet files (*.cue)
• Conversion of all supported image files to bin/cue files.
• Handles opening of multi-file image files.
• Extraction of Audio tracks to wave files.
• Play audio analogue. Instruct the drive to play the audio through the analogue output.
• Ability to pause a number of seconds between retries to allow the drive to "recover" (useful for older drives in combination with marginally readable media)
• Creation of multi-file image files or disc spanning to specified size
• Support for bootable CDs and DVDs. Support for the El Torito standard.
  Perfect aid to slipstream Windows installation CDs
• Add, Edit, Delete files found based on their signatures.
• Show file extents. (Show the different parts of a file, when it is fragmented on disc)
• Ability to add/edit extents on custom created files (e.g. Lost and Found and Customizable file system)
• Ability to add a customizable file system (where you can add, edit files, for engineering purposes)
• Support for command line parameters
• Comprehensive help file (also available online)

IsoBuster interprets CD image files, such as:

*.DAO (Duplicator), *.TAO (Duplicator), *.ISO (Nero, BlindRead, Creator), *.BIN (CDRWin), *.IMG (CloneCD), *.CCD (CloneCD) , *.CIF (Creator), *.FCD (Uncompressed), *.NRG (Nero), *.GCD (Prassi), *.P01 (Toast), *.C2D (WinOnCD), *.CUE (CDRWin), *.CDI (DiscJuggler), *.CD (CD-i OptImage), *.GI (Prassi PrimoDVD), *.PXI (PlexTools), *.MDS (Alcohol), *.MDF (Alcohol), *.VC4 (Virtual CD), *.000 (Virtual CD), *.B5T (BlindWrite), *.B5I (BlindWrite), *.DMG (Apple Macintosh), *.IBP (IsoBuster), *.IBQ (IsoBuster), *.NCD (NTI).

IsoBuster also features Language support for over forty languages.

LoseThos

Company / developer:
  Terry A. Davis

LoseThos

LoseThos is for programming as entertainment. It empowers programmers with kernel privilege because it's fun. It allows full access to everything because it's fun. It has no bureaucracy because it's fun. It's the way it is by choice because it's fun. Don't you hate ninnies who harp on the point of overusing an admin account? Not having kernel privilege, for a programmer, is like not having an admin password on your own computer!

LoseThos is in no way a Windows or Linux wannabe -- that would be pointless. LoseThos is not trying to win a prize for low resource usage or run on pathetic hardware. Low line count is a goal, though. It's 100,000 lines of code including a 64-bit compiler, tools and a graphics library.

A bigger goal is making applications low line count. "Hello World" takes one line of code. You can put graphics on the screen with two lines of code. You don't need to include header files or mess with namespaces. It has a scoping system, though, with tasks inheriting symbols of parents and all system-wide symbols and code in the Adam (as in Eve) task's heap.

LoseThos uses some tricks to keep line count down, like processing whole files. It has a flat, identity mapped virtual-to-physical address map, the same for all tasks. It updates the whole screen 60 times a second instead of trying to keep track of what has changed. The most demanding application is a full screen video game, so it might as well be optimize for that instead of trying to get idle low. It uses the same compiler for the command line as for programs and it uses the same viewer/editor for the command line, help system, forms and dialogs.

LoseThos is not trying to be bullet-proof -- it's for home computers, not mainframes where many users suffer when a crash occurs. It reboots in 2 seconds plus BIOS time. It's no worse than a hung task in Windows or Linux. I know people obsess on this topic. You know how the last 20% of a project takes 80% of the time? LoseThos is an order of magnitude simpler by not trying to be bullet-proof.

There are two programmers who will work on LoseThos -- the user and I. It is for programming as entertainment, and I mean that. Why would you buy a 3rd party program to run on a system with crappy graphics that can crash? There are no scalablity issues. Imagine LoseThos more similar in usage to a 8-bit non-networked home computer's ROM than to Windows or Linux, though, it is 64-bit and far more than that. You are free to access anything documented or undocumented in the system source code -- have fun! I have fond memories of the days when average users typed-in programs from magazines and tinkered with them.

LoseThos was designed from scratch with a clean slate and has no compatibility with anything else. Source code is ASCII plus binary graphics data. It has a new language roughly based C/C++. It's more than C and less than C++ so, maybe, it's C+. I took every opportunity to improve things once I made a clean break with the past. That's another reason LoseThos has value -- it is innovative.

Microsoft Virtual PC

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Virtual PC

Virtual PC is a powerful software virtualization solution that allows you to run multiple PC-based operating systems simultaneously on one workstation, providing a safety net to maintain compatibility with legacy applications while you migrate to a new operating system. It also saves reconfiguration time, so your support, development, and training staff can work more efficiently.

Whether Microsoft virtualization technology is an important component of your existing infrastructure or you're just a Virtual PC enthusiast, you can now download Virtual PC absolutely free.

Use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same physical computer. Switch between virtual machines with the click of a button. Use virtual machines to run legacy applications, provide support, train users, and enhance quality assurance.

Virtual PC lets you create separate virtual machines on your Windows desktop, each of which virtualizes the hardware of a complete physical computer. Use virtual machines to run operating systems such as MS-DOS, Windows, and OS/2. You can run multiple operating systems at once on a single physical computer and switch between them as easily as switching applications—instantly, with a mouse click. Virtual PC is perfect for any scenario in which you need to support multiple operating systems, whether you use it for tech support, legacy application support, training, or just for consolidating physical computers.

Virtual PC 2007 runs on: Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Tablet PC, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows Vista Ultimate.