Existing users, 
 FireStarter FX - 1.0RC1CD burning app with cue/bin, iso, overburning... |
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||
Information Related to Version:
Broken Link? Newer Version? Tell us!
Product Description:
- FireStarter is a pure Cocoa, Mac OS X only, burning application
- It allows you to easily back-up CDs that Apple's Disc-Copy cannot copy
- It allows you to back-up as easily CDs that even Roxio Toast cannot copy
- It makes brings for the first time on Mac OS X the burning of cue/bin disk-images from the PC world
- It brings for the first time overburning available to Mac OS X
- You can easily burn complex CD formats such as VCDs and SVCDs
- Because you don't want to compromise on quality, FireStarter FX sports all the features you want to see in a commercial grade burning application:
- Simulation
- Customizable RAM cache
- High speed burning
- Buffer under-run technology to prevent wasting your media
- Multi-session burning
- Paranoia audio-cd ripping, for best error protection copy
- CDDB access to automatically create CD-TEXT data
- CD-TEXT reading and writing with drives that support it
- and many more powerfull features
What's new in this version:
- FireStarter FX 1.0RC1 has been redeveloped from scratch and now supports officially only Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It is a universal application from ground up. It hasn't been tested on previous versions of Mac OS X and we are not intending on supporting them.
- All the previous functionalities are available, in a more robust and hopefully user-friendly version.
- A major new feature has been implemented in this release: automatic split and burn of data folders bigger than the size of the media inserted, as requested by many users.
- I hope you will like it, as we tried to put as much coolness as possible in the application. Please think about giving if you like and use the software, it simple, efficient, environmentally green and brings good karma!
- http://store.eSellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR7704397588
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Screenshots:
Download Links:
Download FireStarter FX Now (File Size: 4.9M)
Your Installed Versions:
Feedback Summary:
| This Version: | |||||
| Overall Rating: | Not rated (0.0) | Features: | Not rated (0.0) | Support: | Not rated (0.0) |
| Ease of Use: | Not rated (0.0) | Quality / Stability: | Not rated (0.0) | Price: | Not rated (0.0) |
Key to Types of Feedback:
Reviews 
Troubleshooting 
Usage Tips 
Developer Notes 
Commentary 
Featured Reviews
Updated download URL - Version: 1.0RC1, 6/13/2009 02:28PM PST
Mikis--2008
I couldn't get Versiontrackers' download link to do anything, so here's an updated download URL: <http://www.projectomega.org/downloads/internal_products/firestarter/FireStarter_FX-1.0RC1.zip>
Couldn't even launch it 
- Version: 1.0RC1, 2/3/2009 05:27PM PST
jeanfi
iMac Intel under system 10.4.11. When I double-click Firestarter it immediately crashes.
Bombing bug with 3rd party CD burners, plus mini-review - Version: 1.0RC1, 8/7/2008 10:22PM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
zunipus
Bombs Away! - FS FX was consistently bombing when I had my Pioneer DVR-110D attached to my MacBook. I had the Pioneer connected to provide a CD I wanted to copy.
The workaround is to eject any disc you have mounted via the 3rd party drive, then disconnect the drive. At that point you can successfully boot FS FX. Then reconnect the 3rd party drive. Mount your disc again. All works fine.
Note that setting the Preferences/General preference "Force FireStarter FX to use my unrecognized burner" does NOT help with this bug. Not having a disc mounted via the 3rd party drive does NOT help with this bug. Trashing the preferences file for FS FX does NOT help with this bug.
Mini-Review:
I don't consider it fair to give star rated reviews for beta software, which this still is. So here are some aspects of the program I found annoying.
In general I find it to be a bit touchy, requiring some more work until it is stable or actually usable by newbies. The fact that absolutely no Help is provided makes this app Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time. There isn't even any Hot Help. For example, good luck figuring out what 'Paranoia-mode' is about. Have fun playing with 'Read-raw', whatever that's supposed to be. I also have to wonder why there is a RAM setting in the Preferences, and yet another RAM setting for Image burning. Huh?!
This is clearly a fun project with promise. But for now, if I want to use a freebie CD burning app I'll stick with Apple's provided options or use the freeware app Burn, which is stable and has more abilities than FS FX. For example, Burn lets you burn data discs directly from one drive to another. That's no go in FS FX.
I'm going to continue watching the project, but I'm not keeping 1.0RC on my hard drive.
The workaround is to eject any disc you have mounted via the 3rd party drive, then disconnect the drive. At that point you can successfully boot FS FX. Then reconnect the 3rd party drive. Mount your disc again. All works fine.
Note that setting the Preferences/General preference "Force FireStarter FX to use my unrecognized burner" does NOT help with this bug. Not having a disc mounted via the 3rd party drive does NOT help with this bug. Trashing the preferences file for FS FX does NOT help with this bug.
Mini-Review:
I don't consider it fair to give star rated reviews for beta software, which this still is. So here are some aspects of the program I found annoying.
In general I find it to be a bit touchy, requiring some more work until it is stable or actually usable by newbies. The fact that absolutely no Help is provided makes this app Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time. There isn't even any Hot Help. For example, good luck figuring out what 'Paranoia-mode' is about. Have fun playing with 'Read-raw', whatever that's supposed to be. I also have to wonder why there is a RAM setting in the Preferences, and yet another RAM setting for Image burning. Huh?!
This is clearly a fun project with promise. But for now, if I want to use a freebie CD burning app I'll stick with Apple's provided options or use the freeware app Burn, which is stable and has more abilities than FS FX. For example, Burn lets you burn data discs directly from one drive to another. That's no go in FS FX.
I'm going to continue watching the project, but I'm not keeping 1.0RC on my hard drive.
Most Recent Replies: View All 1 Replies
- Bombing bug with 3rd party CD burners, plus mini-review
