> You mention that you had no other requests for them. If this this case, If this this case, and you want many people requesting other formats, I can organize that.

What would actually make a difference is a bunch of people getting together to fund the development costs.

If we did 5 new formats it might take 4 days per format to research, code & test (this optimistic as the documentation on the formats might be non existent or secret). Maybe a few more days to really polish it and get good performance without incurring huge memory usage. And then do the documentation, web site updates and packing a new release. We won't talk about ongoing support, possible new versions of these formats and legal issues around copyrights & patents. So lets optimistically say 20 days full time. This is around $18K USD at our current consulting rates.

So if you could do a quick whip around and come up with the $18K we'll be happy to have a look at it. Can't promise we could actually deliver anything however for this price as some of the formats might be impossible reverse engineer in a short period. Or it could go the other way, where some kind person has already written a bunch of code that is portable and Windows kernel compatible that we could just drop in (chances are low however).

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В начале он ответил так:
>>Он
I think the whole concept of ISO files (and physical CD and DVD drives) is going to die. Most new PCs don't have an optical drive anymore and steaming TV will kill off the rest of the optical disc market. So all these formats will be dead in a few years. Unless someone was going to pay for all the development work I think it is unlikely we would support them.

>>Я
I agree with you about the physical CD/DVD market dying, but not about the part, where the mentioned formats will be dead soon.
Over the years, a lot of people converted those CDs/DVDs to images in various formats and store them on their computers, since cd/dvd media is very unreliable.
Please keep in mind that CDs and DVDs can store not only music and movies but also programs and games and other media.
The same question can be asked of 7zip, why does it support so many archive formats, if most of them are old and uncommon. Why won't 7zip just support just
7z, zip and rar archives.
You mention that you had no other requests for them. If this this case, and you want many people requesting other formats, I can organize that.

>>Он про запрос на 18К

>>Я
This could be done through crowd funding. I doubt however, that a lot of people would pay, since there are many free alternatives out there that do this and much more.
I am strictly speaking about mounting CD/DVD images, not the fact that your program also works with other forensic formats.
The only reason I said anything about the extra formats, is because it would make your program more versatile. I thought you do this for fun, since the program is free.
You could also start charging for your program, maybe this will give you more incentive to create support for more formats. But I doubt you could do this, since the program is essentially based off of a free imdisk. Unless of course that has changed.

In any case, thank for your program.

Flasher wrote:

You mention that you had no other requests for them. If this this case, and you want many people requesting other formats, I can organize that.

Это был ответ на его ответ:
>>Never heard of any of them. We've had no other requests for them. Where do they come from?
Это он говорил про форматы образов как MDS, CCD, CUE.
Я просто тебе не весь разговор привёл.

Thanks for your suggestions, however Alcohol Portable was released once and haven't been developed since then, I don't know if this will change in the future.