Toast was conceived of by Greg Kerr in 1993, then CEO of
Astarte, who outsourced development to Markus Fest. In 1997, the product and team was purchased by
Adaptec, and later transferred to
Roxio (then a division of Adaptec). Toast 4 is the last release that can run on
System 7 with a
68k CPU. With version 5, Toast was renamed "Toast Titanium" and merged with a formerly separate application, Toast DVD. Toast 5 Titanium introduced support for
Video CD and
DVD burning, which was improved in version 6 by addition of
MPEG-2 encoding. Version 6 also added
DVD authoring features, enabling the creation of video and photo DVDs with menus and buttons. Unlike Apple's
iDVD, it supported external DVD burners. Its "ToastAnywhere" feature let users burn discs inserted in another Mac running Toast on the local network, through Apple's
Rendezvous protocol. It also gained the ability to compress and encrypt files before burning them. Toast 6 Titanium included another Roxio app, CD Spin Doctor 2, which can clean noise from an audio track. Roxio announced Toast 8 Titanium in January 2007. Toast 8 Titanium added multiple features including
TiVoToGo and
Blu-ray support. Roxio released Toast 20 PRO in 2021. This release required MacOS 10.14 or later running on an Intel x86 processor. It also can run on Apple M-series CPUs using the Apple Rosetta binary translation software shim, although some reviewers report issues using Toast 20 Pro on their Macintosh computers with M-series processors. As of April 2026, it is unclear whether Corel/Roxio will recompile Toast to run natively on Apple M-series processors. == Features ==