Playing games without CDs

Our kids got a refurbished iMac for Christmas.  I also got them Didi & Ditto and a Reader Rabbit game. Both of these games require the CD to be mounted for them to be played.

I didn't want to have to deal with CDs, as it always seems that CDs that the kids have access to end up getting scratched.  So I created disk images from each of these CDs, and put them in a place where all users can have access to.  Then I wanted to make sure that when the applications are launched the disk images were mounted. 




Here is the AppleScript that I use to make sure that use to launch the program.  The majority of this script came from this hint at macosxhints.

property diskname : "Didi & Ditto"
property diskpath : "Macintosh HD:Users:Shared:Didi & Ditto.dmg"
property appLocation : "Macintosh HD:Applications:Didi & Ditto.app"

on run
    tell application "Finder"
        if not (exists the disk diskname) then
            do shell script ("hdiutil attach " & quoted form of POSIX path of (diskpath as string) & " -mount required")
            repeat until name of every disk contains diskname
                delay 1
            end repeat
        end if
        open item appLocation
    end tell
    delay 5
end run

It automatically will mount the disk image, if it is not mounted already, and then it will launch the program

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