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 Posted: Sat, 17th Sep 2005 08:30 Post subject: Virtual CD drive emulator for DOS |
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Hey guys, not too sure where this would be best posted, but i thought this forum fit the closest. ANyway, I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a virtual CD drive emulator for DOS, like Windows has Daemon Tools. The reason being that i have some old DOS games that are multiple CDs and I want to play these from hard drive cause they load faster and movies play smoother from hard drive than from CD. Windows has Daemon Tools, but is there anything for DOS??
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TheNerd
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Sep 2005 11:41 Post subject: |
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u used to use a little proggie which was called "fakecd".
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Sep 2005 18:15 Post subject: |
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puxili is right. Dosbox is what you need. You can play all your dos games in Windows and you can copy content of CD(s) into folder on your HDD and then mount it with dosbox. Besides, dosbox has some nice filters to make graphics look better.
And you should download this frontend cuz dosbox is cmd line only.
http://members.home.nl/mabus
Fakecd is also good but its DOS only
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Sep 2005 19:02 Post subject: |
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| TheNerd wrote: | | u used to use a little proggie which was called "fakecd". |
now that you mention that, the name does sound familiar...i think i did use to use it.
I'm not sure about DOSbox....i tried it, but the game wouldnt load...dunno if its something i'm doing wrong or not
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Sep 2005 19:55 Post subject: |
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which game is it? maybe i can help...
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| Posted: Sat, 17th Sep 2005 23:48 Post subject: |
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well, i was able to find a derivative of FakeCD made by the same author and newer, called FakeDr. Only problem with this it seems is that it doesnt seem to work well with multiple CD games. Seems you can only emulate one CD at a time so there's no way to access the second, third, fourth, etc, CDs....and in dos, you cant just switch out unmount the one cd and mount the other like you can do in WIndows with Daemon Tools. right??
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| Posted: Sun, 18th Sep 2005 05:28 Post subject: |
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Yes you can use DT with dosbox. Just mount image with DT, then feed your virtual drive's letter to dosbox
When you insert/mount CD you can see its name (label) in My Computer. See the disk's icon? - the label is under icon. Most games check that name to be sure you have right disk in your CD-Rom and dont run if there's no label or the label is wrong
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| Posted: Sun, 18th Sep 2005 18:30 Post subject: |
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ahhh, thanks for the info...too bad DOSbox is too slow to run this game. I guess thats because it emulates EVERYTHING (i.e. video card, sound card, and DOS itself)....is there anyway to tell DOSbox to use hardware video card and sound card and no emulate?? I've also tried increasing the cycles but the game still doesnt run as smoothly in DOSbox as it dos in true MS-DOS mode for WIndows 98
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Rzooq
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| Posted: Sun, 18th Sep 2005 19:29 Post subject: |
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Have you tried VMWare Workstation?
Sometime ago I've created virtual pc with it (Win98SE, custom made autoexec.bat & config.sys) and many games ran flawlessly.
But I don't remember if there was an option to mount image as virtual cd-drive 
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werdercanuck
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| Posted: Sun, 18th Sep 2005 19:47 Post subject: |
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| White_Knight wrote: | | ahhh, thanks for the info...too bad DOSbox is too slow to run this game. I guess thats because it emulates EVERYTHING (i.e. video card, sound card, and DOS itself)....is there anyway to tell DOSbox to use hardware video card and sound card and no emulate?? I've also tried increasing the cycles but the game still doesnt run as smoothly in DOSbox as it dos in true MS-DOS mode for WIndows 98 |
no it doesnt emulate dos. windows IS dos with a GUI is all....
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| Posted: Mon, 19th Sep 2005 09:40 Post subject: |
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no it doesnt emulate dos. windows IS dos with a GUI is all.... |
Dosbox was created for XP users who cant play many old games because XP doesnt support DOS emulation anymore. Dosbox EMULATES dos instructions, memory, mscdex, sound card(s) etc thats why games actually work.
2White_Knight: Some newer SVGA games may require very fast computer. I cant test SVGA games cuz all my games are VGA and run full speed, even too fast if you play with
cycles. The only SVGA game i have is Larry 6 SVGA version but it runs fine too but there can be other games that dont, probably.
Anyway. Did you try to run that game in Windows? Cuz some games may work. Did you play with compatibility settings, tried to run it in 640x480x8 bit ? I guess you did. If your game doesnt work its usually because of too things: sound and/or video (VESA)
For sound you need this tool:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vdmsound/VDMSound-2.0.4-WinNT-i386.msi?download
For VESA support:
http://www.dot-totally.co.uk/files/Vbeplus.exe
These tools will not make you game slow. It will work fast like in real dos
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| Posted: Tue, 20th Sep 2005 01:16 Post subject: |
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| KrutojPoc wrote: | | Quote: |
no it doesnt emulate dos. windows IS dos with a GUI is all.... |
Dosbox was created for XP users who cant play many old games because XP doesnt support DOS emulation anymore. Dosbox EMULATES dos instructions, memory, mscdex, sound card(s) etc thats why games actually work.
2White_Knight: Some newer SVGA games may require very fast computer. I cant test SVGA games cuz all my games are VGA and run full speed, even too fast if you play with
cycles. The only SVGA game i have is Larry 6 SVGA version but it runs fine too but there can be other games that dont, probably.
Anyway. Did you try to run that game in Windows? Cuz some games may work. Did you play with compatibility settings, tried to run it in 640x480x8 bit ? I guess you did. If your game doesnt work its usually because of too things: sound and/or video (VESA)
For sound you need this tool:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vdmsound/VDMSound-2.0.4-WinNT-i386.msi?download
For VESA support:
http://www.dot-totally.co.uk/files/Vbeplus.exe
These tools will not make you game slow. It will work fast like in real dos |
thanks for this info....do these two programs work with DosBox though? you have me excited stating that these tools should make my game run fast like it does in real dos mode. btw, the game is Tex Murphy: Under A Killing Moon....i have a p4 2.3ghz, 512 ram so it should run fast....but i guess there is no way to not have Dosbox emulate the sound/video, but instead use the real hardware like real DOS does??
i'll check out both of those programs though. Thanks again!
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