ISO Master is application for Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, and BSD for creating and modifying ISO9660 files (ISO image

ISO image

An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system...

s).

The first version was released as a working beta in August 2006 – a GTK-based GUI

Gui

Gui or guee is a generic term to refer to grilled dishes in Korean cuisine. These most commonly have meat or fish as their primary ingredient, but may in some cases also comprise grilled vegetables or other vegetarian ingredients. The term derives from the verb, "gupda" in Korean, which literally...

 for the newly developed bkisofs (a library for reading and writing ISO9660 files in user space

User space

A conventional computer operating system usually segregates virtual memory into kernel space and user space. Kernel space is strictly reserved for running the kernel, kernel extensions, and most device drivers...

, including Joliet, RockRidge, and El Torito extensions).

In December 2007 version 1.3 has been ported to Windows, but in a non GPL licence. The Windows version is shareware

Shareware

The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...

, the only limitation is that it will work only for 15 days, beginning from the day of the installation, while the Linux version is still distributed under the GPLv2. The two versions are functionally equivalent.

Third parties have compiled the linux version under windows XP with the tool Cygwin

Cygwin

Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment...

; since such source code

Source code

In computer science, source code is text written using the format and syntax of the programming language that it is being written in. Such a language is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source...

 is released under GPL licence, this provides an alternative free of charge version for windows.

Features

ISO Master can:

• Create an ISO image from scratch
• Add or remove files and directories to/from a CD image
• Create bootable CDs
• Read Nero image
  NRG (file format)
  A .nrg file is a proprietary CD image file format used by Nero Burning ROM, a utility suite made by Nero AG, to create and burn ISO 9660 CD images.Other than Nero Burning ROM, a variety of software titles can use these image files...
  
   format

ISO Master supports Rock Ridge

Rock Ridge

The Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol is an extension to the ISO 9660 volume format, commonly used on CDROM and DVD media, which adds POSIX file system semantics...

 and Joliet file system.