Mac OS 8.6: Installing Games From CD With Minimal Extensions

Some third party applications or games ship on a hybrid CD-ROM/Audio CD. When installing these applications, the instructions might suggest turning off all extensions except the CD/DVD Driver. However, without all the necessary file access extensions enabled, the computer might give an error that the disc is unreadable.
To properly read hybrid CD-ROM discs (discs with multiple file formats), a number of additional extensions should be enabled along with Apple CD/DVD Driver. These include:

* Some of these extensions are not visible in the Extensions Manager control panel, so it is likely that they will already be enabled.

You can enable and disable sets of extensions using the Extensions Manager control panel.

Published Date: Feb 18, 2012