DAEMON Tools Ultra provides you with all the features of DAEMON Tools Lite as well as the ones from DAEMON Tools Pro as well as some additional content. As you may know by now, the DAEMON Tools Lite application is a big star in the community due to the lack of a price tag as well as the feature set that seems to cover all the basic needs. While the Pro iteration of the software adds some very interesting new elements for editing, converting or even creating disc image files, the Ultra version does not manage to live up to the same technology leap. Even its interface is different from the Pro version and emphasizing on looks more than the things that really matter is somewhat of a Windows 8 approach, which clearly does not add value to the whole concept.
Moreover, DAEMON Tools Ultras GUI holds a new panel for News, Top Rated or Most Played dynamic sections. You can learn various interesting stuff by browsing the News area, but things just go wrong when switching to the other two categories. The installation kit offers you to install MountSpace, a tool that allows some game-related website to collect information regarding your disc image files that you store within the programs catalog. The gathered data is centralized and the Top Rated section displays various games sorted by the ratings they achieve on the MountSpace website. Once you click one of them, your default browser access the dedicated MountSpace web page that also presents a buy option that redirects you to numerous websites that sell that particular game. The disturbing fact here is that no buy link ever refers to the game developers website, but to other online stores such as Amazon. This can only pale in comparison to the next section, the Most Played, where things just turn ugly. This peculiar area holds the accumulated data taken from users (without their real consent for the most of times as many of them blindly install third-party components) and offers it to everyone installing DAEMON Tools Ultra. Accessing one of these items, you are rapidly taken to the MountSpace website once again. Besides various ads portrayed as big download buttons and explicit, unfiltered messages from other users, the web page delivers the titles of the disc images associated to the game. It does not take a genius to figure out the piracy degree of these titles and together with comments like Where the hell is the download button?, DAEMON Tools Ultra achieves nothing but a very low level of self-esteem. Furthermore, the program does not really add much value for money through features such as VHD creation and mounting or iSCSI Initiator. DAEMON Tools Ultra tries too hard to top its already established Lite and Pro versions of the main and long lasting framework. In the end, DAEMON Tools Ultra can be viewed as just being an attempt of its developer to gain more funds from advertising and affiliation rather than pure product quality.
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Key features:
Functionality;
* Mount disc images in *.mdx, *.mds/*.mdf, *.iso, *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.bin/*.cue, *.ape/*.cue, *.flac/*.cue, *.nrg, *.isz
* Convert all supported image formats to *.mdf/*.mds, *.mdx, *.iso
* Make images of CD, DVD, Blu-ray discs
* Make compressed disc images or split one image to several files
* Protect disc images with password
VHD support;
* Create and mount read/write Virtual Hard Disk images with dynamic or fixed size
* Use VHD images to back up any of your data
* Have easy access to your data stored in VHD file
Bootable USB devices;
* Write bootable images to USB devices in a few clicks
* Store operating system installer on fast, reusable, durable and handy device
* Setup OS on notebooks without drives easily and quickly
RAM disks;
* Create and mount virtual RAM disks that use a block of memory
* Keep your temporary files in the fastest storage to get the highest performance
* Forget about hard disk fragmentation caused by undeleted temporary files
* Synchronize RAM disk with VHD to use it after the reboot
Media devices virtualization;
* Use "Quick Mount" option to mount and use up to 32 disc images right away
* Set up to 32 SCSI and 4 IDE virtual devices in advanced mode
iSCSI Initiator;
* Work with iSCSI targets (optical devices only) created with DAEMON Tools Net Data Server or third party iSCSI servers
* Use DT virtual devices to mount iSCSI targets as disc images
Advanced imaging features;
* ?reate bootable USB devices easily
* Create or edit disc images simple with new widgets
* Burn created image files to media discs
*Burn disc images with RMPS data
* Master bootable discs or images
* Manage your Image Collection
New generation interface;
* Try easy-to-use wizards for main program functions
* Check out simple and clear design of Image Catalog
* Use "Quick Mount" option to mount disc images in one click
* Perform basic actions via handy DAEMON Tools Gadget on Windows Desktop
GameSpace - we know everything about games;
* Get more information relevant to discs in your Image Collection
* Stay tuned: read game news and reviews posted daily
* Browse for gameplay videos, screenshots and recommendations
* Find out top rated and most played games
* Search disc images and much more
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Change in DAEMON Tools Ultra Version 2.0.0.0159 (Released: 2013-09-24):
What's new;
* SPTD 1.84 (Windows 8.1 support)
* Ability to create bootable USB devices
* Creating and mounting of RAM disks
* "Mount after creation" feature for VHD
* Ability to delete image files via Image Catalog
* Optional confirmations for unmount/delete actions
* Improved work under user account
Bugs fixed;
* Formatting VHD in FAT32 file system;
* Crash on mounting password protected images via gadget;
* Crash on importing data from password protected images;
* TrueCrypt images recognizing issue;
* Minor GUI and functional fixes.
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OS: Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003
Homepage - http://www.disc-soft.com/
