I thought the point of OP was that he has a CD and wants to make an iso of it, as backup, to simplify installations on emulators, FPGA systems or even real Amiga, or whatever. Who in this time and age bothers with spinning optical medium anyways? Must be more than a decade ago that I used a real CD drive on anything Amiga (apart from CDTV and CD32).
Who bothers with optical media?
I still do occassionally.
My laptop has an optical drive, I still rent dvd or blue ray discs because it's cheaper than streaming (and capturing a copy of a stream is difficult).
Optical media is cheap, so giving it or sending it to others is no big deal.
And lastly, I don't live my life constantly tied to an internet connection.
Only the deluded bother with that.
Technology has given us a multitude of ways to crawl up our own asses.
And then there is the constant rush to the replaces things.
If it's working, I don't feel the need to replace it.
And the only substitute I use on occasion is the humble usb thumbdrive.
The real question you should ask is who uses floppies, because you still need those antiques to load the software you need to access the cd's and usb devices on our antique legacy platforms.
