MakeCD

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MakeCD
Basic data

Maintainer Angela Schmidt, Patrick Ohly
Publishing year 1996
Current  version 3.2c
(November 5, 1999)
Current preliminary version 3.2d beta 12
(July 9, 2007)
operating system AmigaOS
category Firing program
License Freeware
German speaking Yes
Amiga MakeCD Support Page

MakeCD 1996, is a published CD - burning software for the Amiga , which was very popular in the following years. The software was developed by Angela Schmidt and Patrick Ohly during their studies in Karlsruhe and is only available for AmigaOS . For a long time, MakeCD was sold as shareware or commercially. MakeCD has been available completely free of charge since 2007.

MakeCD can be used to create and duplicate data and audio CDs. When it was launched on the market and in the years after, the software provided some features that were not a matter of course in other products, such as:

  • When creating a CD-ROM, MakeCD uses the Amiga-specific file attributes, which are based on an extension of the SUSP (System Use Sharing Protocol, IEEE P1281) of the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol . The necessary extension was designed and developed by the author Angela Schmidt and made generally available in the MakeCD program package. Thus MakeCD was the first software with which one could burn the Amiga-specific file attributes on CD-ROMs.
  • In the mid-1990s, a standardized set of commands for the control of CD burners was still unusual. Each manufacturer had its own set of instructions. Thanks to the modular, driver-based concept developed by Patrick Ohly, MakeCD was able to control almost all CD burners available on the market, but only loaded the necessary code into the memory, thus saving resources.
  • At that time, music files usually first had to be converted into the appropriate audio format and then burned onto a CD. MakeCD has taken on this task automatically in the background in the so-called on-the-fly mode.
  • From version 3.2, MakeCD is able to burn MPEG-A files as audio tracks without intermediate files (image files). This feature was not available in any other Amiga CD burning software at the time. According to a magazine article, this was apparently a world first for the entire PC sector at the time: MakeCD 3.2 is likely to be the first CD burning software worldwide that burns files in MPEG-A format on-the-fly on an audio CD .
  • MakeCD already supported DAO (Disc-At-Once), TAO (Track-At-Once) and SAO (Session-At-Once), and was therefore able to burn audio CDs or other files without pauses between songs add to data CDs that have already been burned.

MakeCD was chosen by the magazine AMIGA plus in issue 2/98 as the best Amiga software in the field of CD burner software and awarded the Amiga Plus Award 97 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Version history of MakeCD. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b c Robert Williams, Robert Davis: Review: MakeCD 3.2c . In: Clubbed . Spring, no. 5 , 2000, pp. 17–18 ( totalamiga.org [PDF; 4.0 MB ]).
  3. ↑ a b fuel . In: AMIGA plus . No. 4/97 . ICP - Innovative Computer Presse GmbH & Co. KG, Vaterstetten, S. 55-62 .
  4. ↑ A world first at MakeCD . In: AMIGA plus . No. 10/98 . ICP - Innovative Computer Presse GmbH & Co. KG, Vaterstetten, S. 22 .
  5. ↑ The AMIGA plus Award 1997 - and the winner is . In: AMIGA plus . No. 2/98 . ICP - Innovative Computer Presse GmbH & Co. KG, Vaterstetten, S. 24 .