Myst V End of Ages

How do I make a disc image from Myst V End of Ages so I can prevent wearing out my CD/DVD optical drive and preserve the original game disc?

Myst V End of Ages has a copy protection installed. This protection is "very" robust and simply will not allow the legal owner of the disc run the software program from a disc image through the use of standard normal means of disc imaging.

This places the original disc at risk of being worn out and places unnecessary wear on the optical drive.

All previous versions of Myst allowed disc imaging.

By copyright law the legal owner of copyrighted material has the right to produce one working archive copy of intellectual property for personal private use and or library. Problem is, so many have abused this right that theft became a major problem for UbiSoft so copy protection was employed.

Without purchasing or utilizing some form of illegal piracy software or method, Myst V simply will not allow itself to be copied and always demands that the program be booted with the original disc in the optical drive.

Since the software is out of production, the legal owner needs a means to preserve the original disc.

After numerous attempts and numerous failures I figured out how to make the program run from a disc image without the need for anything but Apple system software. All perfectly legal.

It is so simple it almost hurts to define it.

1. Make a disc image from the original disc.

2. Mount the disc image.

3. Put the original disc in the optical drive while the disc image is still mounted. (two Myst V images will be on the desktop)

4. Launch Myst V.

5. Eject the original disc from the optical drive.

That's It!

Myst V will NOT launch with the disc image. It will only launch with the original disc in the optical drive.

Myst will continue to run with only the disc image mounted even if the optical disc is ejected.

You CANNOT use the disc image to make a working copy by any legal means that I am aware of but you can now preserve your original disc with minimal use and avoid wear and tear on your optical drive.

The game only requires that the program be launched with the original disc in the optical drive. It does not require that the original disc remain in the optical drive during use.