Alternatives to Alcohol for all platforms with any license

  • WinCDEmu

    WinCDEmu is an open-source CD/DVD/BD emulator - a tool that allows you to mount optical disc images by simply clicking on them in Windows Explorer. If you have...

    • Mounts images well, fast, installs in seconds, no reboot required. Gets the job done with no hassle. Guest • Mar 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It is free, of course. And yeah it is easy to use, it is lightweight and yes, it is fast. However, I recently discovered a thing that this software can't do, which is, change an already mounted image with another image at the exact same drive letter, while it is in use. Guest • Dec 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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  • Virtual CloneDrive

    Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files of various formats (.iso, .bin, etc) can be mounted...

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  • AcetoneISO

    AcetoneISO, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO will let You...

    • Discontinued The latest update on SourceForge was on 2013-10-25.

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • Nero Burning ROM

    Nero Burning ROM, commonly called just Nero, is an optical disc authoring program. As of version 6, the program has been a part of Nero software suite. Create, rip...

    Commercial Windows

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  • MagicISO

    MagicISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file creating/editing/extracting tool. It can open / create / edit /extract CD/DVD image files, and it can convert bin to iso and...

    • Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 5.5(build 281), released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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  • CDemu

    CDEmu is a CD/DVD-ROM device emulator for linux, licensed under GPL v2 or later. It is a from-scratch rewrite of the legacy CDEmu project, which was started by Robert...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

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  • Xfburn

    Lightweight CD/DVD burning software designed for Xfce, but it runs on Gnome, KDE etc as well. It can blank CDs and DVDs, burn and create ISO images and burn personal...

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

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  • Furius ISO Mount

    Furius ISO Mount is a simple Gtk+ Interface to Mount ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Image files without burning to disk. An ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Image management...

    • Discontinued The official website is no longer available. Last version, 0.11.3.1, released in January 2011, can be still downloaded from Softpedia

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • DVDFab Virtual Drive

    DVDFab Virtual Drive is a virtual emulator for both DVD and Blu-ray. It can emulate 18 drives and mount DVD/Blu-ray ISO image files created by DVDFab and other programs....

    Free Windows

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Comment by Tank
about Alcohol · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

The free version is limited to 6 virtual drives, instead of 31, and is limited to burning with 2 drives simultaneously.

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Comment by scatterbrain
about Alcohol · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

clean setup, full shell support. even for image formats alcohol is not suppost to work with.
nice icons. quick mounting...
i tried winCDemu, virtual clone cd, gizmo center and of course daemon tools (for quite a while)
happy i found this piece.

thumbs up!

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