CD Shell

CD Shell is a super handy tool for making interactive multi-boot optical discs. It helps you create PC-bootable CDs or DVDs that let you pick from different program loaders or kernels right from the disc. Plus, it can boot from other local drives connected to your system! How cool is that?

What Makes CD Shell Special?

This utility takes a lot of inspiration from Bart Lagerweij's awesome program, Diskem1x. While CD Shell offers similar features, it comes packed with new and original stuff too! You get an advanced scripting language, graphics support, and even mouse support! It also plays nicely with other great tools like isolinux/memdisk, Ranish Partition Manager, and Memtest86+.

Free for Everyone!

The best part? CD Shell is free to use for non-commercial purposes! The program and its source code are shared under the NASM License. Just keep in mind that some optional components have their own licenses that restrict how you can use them.

What's New in This Release?

• Display Changes: The display.message now treats a backslash as a single-character quote when it doesn’t recognize it as an escape sequence (thanks to Erwin Veermans from the Ultimate Boot CD project).


• Patches: Updated isolinux patches thanks to Charles Appel of the Ultimate Boot CD project.


• Bugs Fixed: Patched a bug in isolinux that showed some weird characters while loading a kernel (right before 'Ready').


• Splash Screen: Changed how the display command works so it won’t show a splash screen unless isolinux is called with an empty command line.


• Scripting Improvements: Made changes to the chooser script and allowed onEscape actions when users quit the menu.


• Select Commands: Now you can set per-item execute-on-select commands!


• Message Window Update: Fixed an issue where text in the message window wouldn’t update correctly.

If you're excited about trying out CD Shell, head over to their page to check it out!