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Re: CD-Rom support under DOS
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 5:43 am
by zomgugoff
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.
Re: CD-Rom support under DOS
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 5:56 am
by Chris23235
I just tried the latest version of XDVD2, the driver also works:
http://optimizr.no-ip.org/dos/drivers.html
Re: CD-Rom support under DOS
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:19 am
by Caldor
bbond007 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 4:05 am
wark91 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:50 pm
2 point - With CD player of Win98 I can select track but no sound is played and the time of the track is not increase or decrease. I have a Disk led is bliking that"s all.
"Currently only data portion of CD is supported." -->
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_M ... /README.md
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.
Re: CD-Rom support under DOS
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:51 pm
by xtcrefugee
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).
Re: CD-Rom support under DOS
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:35 pm
by Chris23235
Caldor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:19 am
bbond007 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 4:05 am
wark91 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:50 pm
2 point - With CD player of Win98 I can select track but no sound is played and the time of the track is not increase or decrease. I have a Disk led is bliking that"s all.
"Currently only data portion of CD is supported." -->
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_M ... /README.md
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.
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.