Alcohol 120% detail information

| Posted by | CDFreaks | ||
| Posted on | 05/02/2003 | ||
| Manufacturer | Alcohol Software | ||
| Product | Alcohol 120% | ||
| Description | Alcohol 120% can handle the creation of 31 virtual CD & DVD-ROMs, allowing the user to play discs without needing the physical disc. It also allows users to make copy CD & DVD to CD-R / CD-RW / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD-RAM / DVD+RW. | ||
| Current version | 1.9.7.6221 | ||
| Stats |
Downloads: 3909. Views: 17970. |
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Alcohol brings a new meaning to the word multimedia! It is without a doubt a leader in its class, bringing the ability to emulate and record CDs and DVDs together into one amazingly easy to use software program.
Using the latest technology the program is constantly being developed and improved to add new features, allowing it to maintain it's position as a leading software package.
Imagine being able to store your most used CDs as images on your computer and just call them up at the click of a button! And then run them at 200x the speed of some CD drives and without requiring the CD itself! How about being able to make a backup of that CD onto another CD either using the CD itself or just using the image you have created? This is what Alcohol allows you to do and much more.
- Alcohol 120% enables you to make a duplicate back-up to recordable media of nearly all your expensive Game/Software/DVD titles, and/or an image that can be mounted and run from any one of Alcohol's virtual drives.
- No other software available enables you to create up to a staggering 31 virtual drives, allowing you to run your game images at over 200x faster than from a conventional CD-ROM. Alcohol 120% is a powerful utility that uses a unique combination of options to ensure a perfect back-up every time.
- All you need is a PC combined with a CD or a DVD burner. No more replacing your expensive original discs due to loss, theft, scratches, or other media imperfections. Your duplicate works just like the original; your entire collection can be archived and your investment protected.
- In the home: Have you had experiences with the common conditions of CDs/DVDs? They can easily get scratched, damaged, broken, lost or even stolen. Alcohol provides you with peace of mind and protects your investment.
- Your original games/program discs can be safely stored away. Alcohol-created images mean that you always have your expensive media stored safely on your hard drive for instant retrieval at the click of a button. No more searching for the correct game disc or software application install disc, everything is at your fingertips.
- You can now, for instance, simultaneously play your favourite game and bring up your route planner without having to eject and reload any physical discs, The 31 virtual drive ability of Alcohol means you can have the equivalent of a staggering 31 CD-ROM drives in your Home PC, all instantly accessible. You can simply and quickly run your Disc image at around 200 times faster than that of a conventional CD-ROM drive. If you need a program or CD it is immediately there - always ready to use!
- At the office: Program discs and many other applications generally require the original disc to be in the computer's CD-ROM drive. This restricts the amount of people in your office who can have access to the same software at the same time without the cost of additional discs. Alcohol's virtual drives resolve that problem for you. No more hunting around the offices for that elusive disc you need to run your application, everything you require is just a click away.
- With Alcohol you can store your CD images on your office server, your colleagues and employees at their respective networked workstations will never need to come asking for a CD again, they will not even require an expensive CD-ROM drive installed in their workstation PC! A simple click is all that is required for them to have full access to any disc image they require for their day to day work. Your valuable CDs can be safely kept under lock and key.
- Does your company have a promotional CD for it's customers? Original pressed discs are expensive, using the Alcohol 120% writing engine you can copy the original to inexpensive blank discs for distribution to your customers and keep your overheads down.
- Alcohol software offers unrivalled usage to people from all walks of life regardless of if you are a hardened game player, busy school teacher, salesman, IT manager, student etc. Alcohol has a niche in all your everyday computer needs. Let Alcohol help you to help yourselves and give you the peace of mind you deserve when it comes to expensive PC media.
- Do not have a CD/DVD writer? No problem, Alcohol 52%* is the answer, with all the power and technological advantages of Alcohol 120%. Alcohol 52% is ideally suited for Laptop use (no need to take your expensive discs along to a meeting where they can become misplaced). Ideal for school/office environments where access to an image file by workstation users would be an advantage.

Awsom tool. They keep up to date and keep my CDROM and my CDROMS from wearing out.
A great disk burner as it burnes almost all formats. I personally buy my games but I dont like having to wait for exsesivly long load times when I can put them on my hard drive as an image.



I used to have and old hp burner and other software would just fail to burn my stuff (like nero), but alcohol 120% burned it all, bypassing safedisc 3 was easily done! GOOD WORK ALCOHOL SOFT.


The bad: Alcohol 120% calls home. Uniquely identifiable information is sent to Alcohol-Soft. Internet connection is "required" (by method dictated by Alcohol-Soft) to initially use the prduct.
I would not recommend the purchase of Alcohol 120%; its utility is exceeded by the security problem of its calling home.






How can you "lose" a serial key? Did the cd case fairy visit?


So, I've got my hands on Clone CD, Game Jackal and Alcohol 120. ( by the way Ascii2 - you can stop Alcohol from phoning home and it still works just fine )
To save me hours and hours of testing - is there any clear winner ? I'd certainly appreciate any advice on which of them is worth buying. Although my personal preference would be a Slysoft product - mainly cos I've been using Clone DVD without any problems, for a long time now.
Yes, believe it or not, I will actually buy certain "worthy" software, even though I already have working serials, cracks and patches for all 3 products.
Think about it - if none of us bought any of their software - Slysoft and Alcohol would soon be ought of business and then what !
Thanks.

1.9.7.6221
Posted by alan1476
NEW Improved Dumping/Burning engine more stability and speed
NEW Blu-ray format (single and double sided) are supported in the Xtra Wizard
NEW Blu-ray format (single and double sided) are totally supported in Alcohols Burning & Dumping Wizard now.
NEW DPM extraction and writing for more accuracy with some drives.
NEW Performance graphic now supports Blu-ray format (single and double sided)
FIX Problem with some Drives Not showing correct manufacture ID of blank discs.
FIXThe incorrect \'Processor Info\' display on some Operating systems
FIX Addressed some blacklisting problems
FIX Bugs reported by some users
FIX Auto play doesn\'t show in x64 platform problem
UPDATE Some language files
UPDATE Devsupp additional support for more drives
1.9.6.5403
Posted by H3rB3i
2007-06-04
NEW
- Increased memory buffer from 128 to to 256
- support for isz, b5t b6t image file formats
- Upgraded Reading Engine, Speed Improve
- Upgraded Writing engine, Speed Improved
- Upgraded Starwind ISCSI function
- SPTD layer to version 1.47
FIX
- Addressed some blacklisting problems
- Bugs reported by some users
- Vista compatible problem concerning activation
UPDATE
- language files
- Devsupp additional support for more drives
1.9.6.4719
Posted by Womble
1. NEW. SPTD driver version 1.38. 2. NEW. Full Windows Vista (Build 6000) compatibility 32Bit and x64 editions. 3. FIX. Problem to add Virtual Drive after installation in some computers 4. FIX. Minor bugs reported by users. 5. FIX. Problem related to system report after burning/dumping. 6. FIX. A bug found in RMPS while burning some custom made MDS files. 7. FIX. Problem reported with virtual drive and InterVideo DVD Copy 5. 8. FIX. Error code 12 as reported by some users during install. 9. FIX. RMPS emulation problem for DVD+R media that occurred in some DVD drives. 10. UPDATE. Book-type setting features to support Plextor LG and new generation of Liteon drives. 11. UPDATE. Language Translations. 12. UPDATE. Alcohol data type profiles. 13. UPDATE. Alcohol Virtual Drive engine. 14. ADDED. Support for more devices, you can find more detailed information on our development page at http://www.alcohol-soft.com/devsupp/
1.9.6.4629
Posted by H3rB3i
New: * SPTD driver version 1.35. * Full Windows Vista RC2 (Build 5744) compatibility 32Bit and 64Bit editions. * RMPS V2, a totally new generation of our RMPS feature * Option to install Alcohol with or without Virtual drive function. * EWSS (Enhanced Weak Sector Scanner). * Shell Context Menu support in all x64 platforms. (XP, Windows Server 2003 and Vista RC2). UPDATE: * Shell Context Menu to sort drive list by drive letter, and single menu item when only one virtual drive is installed. * Alcohols Sector Viewer in CD/DVD Manager, now provides more detailed information for DVD. * Alcohol data type profiles. * "Ignore Media Type" Function; to include DVD media. * Alcohols help files * Language Translations * Alcohols Virtual Drive engine. * Alcohols write engine * Alcohols read engine FIXES: * Missing installed device drivers list in Alcohols system report for X64 platforms. * "Invalid User Buffer." Error, that affected some systems. * Minor bugs reported by users. * Problem related to U3 USB if RMPS function was active * Problem related to Acronis True Image issue * Problem related to Mac Drive issue ADDED: * Support for more devices, you can find more detailed information on our development page at http://www.alcohol-soft.com/devsupp/
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