Autorun for CDs run on both Mac and MS operating systems?

Question

Hello,
I have built a website that runs from CD-ROM. In the root directory of the site it contains three extra files which enable the disc, when it is inserted into the CD drive, to fire up the web browser (on my computer this is Internet Explorer 6), open the HTML home page of the CD website, and change the CD drive's icon to an icon of my choice. To do this, I use a self-executable file called "runner". All of this works OK on any Microsoft Windows platform, but not on any Mac OS.
The three files are:
autorun.inf
runner.exe
An icon file (say, "myicon.ico")
(The icon file isn't compulsory - it can be left out if not required.)
The "autorun.inf" file can be opened in Notepad, and the text contents changed and saved to account for the name of the HTML web page that needs to be opened first in the web browser (in this case, "index.htm"). The text in "autorun.inf" therefore looks like this, containing three lines of text:
[autorun]
open=runner index.htm
icon=myicon.ico
"Index.htm", in the above case, is in the same directory as "runner.exe" (i.e. the root directory of the CD drive).
Is there anything I can do, perhaps with the addition of some sort of Mac-compliant file, so that the CD will self-start in the way described above, regardless of whether it is run in Windows or a Mac OS?
Thanks,
RMS-link

Answer 1

You can't get a CD to autorun on a Mac in the same way you can on a PC.
What you can do is to get the CD to automatically open a disc window. So that users can then just double click and open the index file.
You can modify the auto window size and look quite easily as well.
In order to do this you will need however to create a hybrid disk, Toast can do this quite easily.
iFelix