Creating Mac/PC hybrid multimedia presentation CD-ROM

This took me a long time to figure out and I will probably not have to do it again for a long time so I will write this down now for my own future reference.

My work is creating a give-away CD. All it is is an html/javascript file that you can view with standard web browser. But we wanted to autostart for PC and have a nice presentation (with window decoration with custom image etc…). Here is how I did it:

1. Get the html and all the src files ready. I left one html and a folder. Making obvious that the html is the start point.
2. Create .dmg for Mac. Here is how to do it. Open the image, then place files, make it pretty by “Show View Option”, make sure your “Picture” is inside of the folder. It is also nice to select “View > Hide Toolbar”. Notice where and how large you leave the window in your screen also affects when the recipients mount the image.
3. If you want the icon to be customized, see this link. You also need Icon Composer (as part of developer connection tool? not finding it…) (related article) or Iconographer to create .icns file.
4. For PC, create autorun.inf and ShellExecute.bat. See detail here.
5. You need to create ico file. I use telegraphics‘ ico format plugin for PhotoShop.
6. Then I fought with Roxio Toast 6 Titanium for a long time and I could not create custom hybrid CD. Then a colleague pointed me to stupidfish’s shadowBurn it’s $15 and works great.