CD-Rom support under DOS
Re: CD-Rom support under DOS
It seems having more than 2 partitions causes a conflict with a CD driver loaded. I have a drive image with 4 partitions (C,D,E,F). With a driver loaded, I can access the drives, but if I try to change directory on E or F, I get "Invalid Directory". I haven't even loaded mscdex at this point.
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Re: CD-Rom support under DOS
I just tried the latest version of XDVD2, the driver also works:
http://optimizr.no-ip.org/dos/drivers.html
http://optimizr.no-ip.org/dos/drivers.html
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Re: CD-Rom support under DOS
This readme was made when the first CD-Rom update for AO486 was released. It already mentioned bin/cue support in that update. The one released... yesterday i think it was... just said it had gotten cue support. So maybe it supports audio tracks now and the readme just did not get updated? Probably not, but seems worth a test.bbond007 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 4:05 am"Currently only data portion of CD is supported." --> https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_M ... /README.md
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Re: CD-Rom support under DOS
XDVD2 seems to consume the same memory as xcdrom (which makes sense as it's written by the same guy) except XDVD2 adds an XMS cache and takes a little longer to start. They seem to benchmark the same as the others (unfortunately still 3x-4x slower under Windows than real DOS).
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Re: CD-Rom support under DOS
I think support for audio tracks would have been mentioned in an updated readme. Support for cue fixes some issues, Alien Trilogy now runs when you load the cue file. When I tried to mount the bin file with the previous version the complained said that it couldn't find the game disc.Caldor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:19 amThis readme was made when the first CD-Rom update for AO486 was released. It already mentioned bin/cue support in that update. The one released... yesterday i think it was... just said it had gotten cue support. So maybe it supports audio tracks now and the readme just did not get updated? Probably not, but seems worth a test.bbond007 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 4:05 am"Currently only data portion of CD is supported." --> https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_M ... /README.md