Anyone tried Wing Commander III yet?

I have found that if you have mounted some ISO in Daemon Tools and then reboot Windows, you should remember to unmount it, or it will freeze / crash when you try to open This Computer or otherwise see the virtual drive. But after unmounting, you can mount again and it should work.
You can prevent this beaviour by deselecting automount on start in the Daemon Tools settings. By doing so your virtual drive is always empty when the computer launches.Caldor wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:23 amI have found that if you have mounted some ISO in Daemon Tools and then reboot Windows, you should remember to unmount it, or it will freeze / crash when you try to open This Computer or otherwise see the virtual drive. But after unmounting, you can mount again and it should work.
But there might still be other issues while using it.
Oh yeah, good ideaChris23235 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:32 amYou can prevent this beaviour by deselecting automount on start in the Daemon Tools settings. By doing so your virtual drive is always empty when the computer launches.Caldor wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:23 amI have found that if you have mounted some ISO in Daemon Tools and then reboot Windows, you should remember to unmount it, or it will freeze / crash when you try to open This Computer or otherwise see the virtual drive. But after unmounting, you can mount again and it should work.
But there might still be other issues while using it.
Yup... but so far it will require using Windows and one of the CD drive emulators for Windows that support audio CDs. That should work for Warcraft 1 f.ex. I think. I have not experimented much with it though. In fact, I do not think I have tried out any games using audio CDs yet, but I have made images of almost all my CD rom games. Most of my floppy disk games as well, but the MiSTer does not support copy-protected disk formats for... any of the cores yet, I think. Installing DOS games that just use ISO images works great so far for me. I have made a mount script that removes the existing drive, if there is one, and mounts the image to a new drive. Multi-CD games though, like Kingdom O Magic is a problem. I am trying to make a bit of a hack where I make a custom CD that has files from both CDs to trick it into accepting one CD for the adventures that requires the Sharon CD, so that I can start the game with that CD. I made an image for this, because I tried just using a folder and subst, but I got some errors. Not sure why.bootsector wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 3:58 pm It would be great to have a proper CD interface with this core so I could play Relentless - Little Big Adventure again directly from a rip of my own CD (that does have CD-Audio tracks on it).
Very much so... the MiSTerFS might be a way around that... except it would still not access the audio part. I am pretty sure it would take quite some time and know-how to implement support for a software, yet alone a hardware support for CD rom drives.
Unfortunately Relentless doesn’t work in Windows 95. It asks you to reboot in MSDOS mode. With that, I lose any CD emulation capability provided by any software on Windows.Caldor wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 7:31 pmYup... but so far it will require using Windows and one of the CD drive emulators for Windows that support audio CDs. That should work for Warcraft 1 f.ex. I think. I have not experimented much with it though. In fact, I do not think I have tried out any games using audio CDs yet, but I have made images of almost all my CD rom games. Most of my floppy disk games as well, but the MiSTer does not support copy-protected disk formats for... any of the cores yet, I think. Installing DOS games that just use ISO images works great so far for me. I have made a mount script that removes the existing drive, if there is one, and mounts the image to a new drive. Multi-CD games though, like Kingdom O Magic is a problem. I am trying to make a bit of a hack where I make a custom CD that has files from both CDs to trick it into accepting one CD for the adventures that requires the Sharon CD, so that I can start the game with that CD. I made an image for this, because I tried just using a folder and subst, but I got some errors. Not sure why.bootsector wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 3:58 pm It would be great to have a proper CD interface with this core so I could play Relentless - Little Big Adventure again directly from a rip of my own CD (that does have CD-Audio tracks on it).
USB CD-Drives are capable of everything an internal CD-Drive is capable of.
I’ve given up on the CD version for now. I’m now looking for the 8 disks version of this game.Caldor wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:23 pm Yeah... that is the case with many DOS games. I have gotten it to run without CD sound though. Maybe something can be done using the HX DOS Extender, as its meant to make it possible to use some Windows features in DOS. Should even work with some simple UI stuff, but its mainly for command line Windows stuff. Daemon Tools does have a command line feature, but... I doubt that would work with the HX DOS Extender.
I guess games that use CD audio from DOS have to be ignored for now, or played without audio. Or maybe try to force it to run as a DOS app in Windows, using special compatibility settings, but I doubt that would run well, if it would even run at all.
In principle, yes, but in practice I've never heard of a USB optical drive capable of playing (as opposed to reading/ripping) audio tracks. Even if they internally support the commands, a separate audio output is also required. A few USB drives with such an output probably exist, but I think USB wasn't common before this feature was considered obsolete. Presumably for the same reason, I've also never seen a SATA optical drive with the necessary audio output.Chris23235 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:35 pmUSB CD-Drives are capable of everything an internal CD-Drive is capable of.