Since years I have used Daemon-tools, with all machines, and enjoyed the benefits; some CDs never needed to be burned, fast "CD" over the LAN and so on.

Now I understand a similar product called Alcohol might be an option. Is there anyone that have experience from both products? Can you please tell me something about them compared to each other? My main question is basically "Should I switch from Daemon-tools to Alcohol?".

Please, not answers like "I like Alcohol", :), or Daemon-tools is free" and such short uninformative things one sometimes see. I would appreciate opinions based upon experience. To me it's very important with a reliable machine that doesn't hang for example.

Thanks in advance!

May be this is obvious but:
Deamon Tools = Virtual Drives Only
Alcohol = CD Burner that support Virtual Drives (Record & Emulate). Very well supported, BTW.
Deamon Tools = Support up to 4 Virtual Drives
Alcohol = Can handle up to 31 virtual CD & DVD ROM drives, all at once

May be if you have a CD burner you have to think to choose between Alcohol or CloneCD (that support Virtual Drives too)

Venom386(developer of daemon tools) and the alcohol team work very closely together, as a matter of fact alcohol could not work the way it does without daemon tools and vice versa, if you were to download and install the new version of alcohol you will notice that daemon tools or portions of it is installed as part of alcohol. Alcohol supports most major image formats. The only reason to switch would be the burning capabilities the new versions of copy protections ie:Securom "new" version4 relies on physical characteristics of the actual cd the game is pressed on (UT2003) the way alcohol does this is similar to the way clonecd accomplished what it did. Alcohol convinces the game that the cd is in the drive by making it "think" the original cd is by information alcohol gathers through the DPM and then burning this info to the disk. But with daemon and alcohol all you have to do is create the image on your harddrive and then run a virtual cd, no cd required to play. So the only advantage to owning alcohol is the ability make a back-up to cd not 1 to 1 but a back-up none the less. clonecd at this time cannot make a copy of securom new version4 or above.

Ok, thank you for (very fast, btw) comprehensive answers, supplementing each other!

I see that there is no need for me to hurry away and buy Alcohol for the moment.

Thanks again.

Conclusion, Alcohol 120% is better :lol:

Blindwrite is better