Alpine: yes...
About Daemon-tools: For those of you who haven't tried it: Daemon-tools is a virtual CD/DVD-player, it can open iso-files and bin/cue-files, locally and over a network. It mounts theese imagefiles making them act as beeing readable in the same way as you read from a cd in a cd-reader. Thus it is possible to, for example, to install Office from your backup (made from the install-cd) without having to burn it, or having to unpack it into another dir somewhere. This way you also can let it act as a CD-reader for those apps/games (also copy-protected games) that need the CD in the reader.
Free for private use.
This tool has server very well and I have found no drawback. Recommended.