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MagicISO
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MagicISO running under Windows | | Developed by | MagicISO, Inc. |
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| Latest release | 5.5.274 / 2009-3-17; 282 days ago [1] |
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
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| Available in | Currently in 16 Languages
(Albanian, Chinese Simpilifed, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Sweden, etc.) |
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| Type | Virtual drive |
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| License | Shareware |
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| Website | http://www.magiciso.com |
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MagicISO (also referred to as MagicISO Maker) is a CD/DVD image shareware utility that can extract, edit, create, and burn disc image files. It is well known for its support and ability to convert between ISO and CUE/BIN and their proprietary UIF disc image format as well.
In addition to being able to edit the contents of the disc images without decompressing, it can make a disc image from an existing CD/DVD-ROM. Also, it can make bootable image files (file extension .bif). MagicISO can mount disc images with the addition of MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD Manager.
The trial version cannot handle disc images larger than 300 Mb. MagicISO is currently produced by MagicISO, Inc. The Company's domain name is registered to an address in Shanghai, China.
[edit] MagicDisc
MagicDisc, sometimes known as MagicISO Virtual CD/DVD Manager is a freeware virtual drive counterpart to MagicISO. It is a separate download needed to mount discs virtually. MagicDisc can also decompress UIF images to ISO format.
Unlike MagicISO, MagicDisc does not have support for .daa files that were produced by PowerISO.
[edit] Universal Image Format
Universal Image Format or UIF is a proprietary disc image format for CDs and DVDs that uses compression created by MagicISO Inc. In addition to compression it also supports password-protection, data encryption, built in MD5 checksums and multi-session CD/DVD, Audio-CD, VCD, SVCD and DVD-Video[2]. Curiously despite the community demand, unlike the proprietary compressed image file format ISZ developed by EZB Systems (UltraISO), UIF is not supported by Daemon Tools[3].
[edit] GPL violations
MagicIso includes GPL'ed code reading DAA format.[4]
[edit] See also
- List of ISO image software
- Disk image emulators
[edit] Related file formats
- BIN/CUE
- BWT, BWI, BWS, BWA
- CCD/IMG/SUB
- CSO (.cso)
- DAA (.daa)
- MDF/MDS (.mdf)
- NRG (.nrg)
- DMG (Apple disk image) (.dmg)
- UIF (Universal Image Format) (.uif)
- IMA (.ima)
- IMG (.img)
- DK (.dk)
- WIM (.wim)
[edit] References
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