Software to emulate a CD-Rom

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#65782

Author: John Doe
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00

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I am looking for some software which will let me set up directories on my
harddrive as drive letters and will fool my games into thinking that the
drive is the CD Rom.  I have software which sets up a directoy as a drive
letter but it won't fool the games.

My 4 and 5 year old kids  misplace game disks or scratch them up and always
need help getting the games going.  With the low price of drive space I'd
like to just install and run from the drive, but so many games require the
CD rom and will only run from it.

Re: Software to emulate a CD-Rom

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Author: Laura
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00

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The games may not be fooled as they use *wierd* bits of the disk surface to
make sure you've got the disk (ie not pirate copies), and are similarly an
absolute nightmare to back-up onto CD-R.  Some back-up software (eg Nero)
can back these disks up OK by doing a complete binary copy of the disk, so
maybe this is what you need - rather than a file-by-file copy.

Or maybe buy a burner, and back your games up with some *advanced* burning
software like Nero (There is a lot of lousy burnware out there that only
does a file-by-file copy whilst claiming to do a binary copy), and burn
copies for the kids to use (and kill!) and then re-burn if they do kill
one!!

As a legal licensee, this is probably OK under your license - just don't
sell the copies!!!

hth

-L

John Doe <Jd...@buck.com> wrote in message
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> I am looking for some software which will let me set up directories on my
> harddrive as drive letters and will fool my games into thinking that the
> drive is the CD Rom.  I have software which sets up a directoy as a drive
> letter but it won't fool the games.
>
> My 4 and 5 year old kids  misplace game disks or scratch them up and
always
> need help getting the games going.  With the low price of drive space I'd
> like to just install and run from the drive, but so many games require the
> CD rom and will only run from it.
>
>
>
>

Re: Software to emulate a CD-Rom

#65784

Author: Troy Hudson
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00

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John Doe wrote:

> I am looking for some software which will let me set up directories on my
> harddrive as drive letters and will fool my games into thinking that the
> drive is the CD Rom.  I have software which sets up a directoy as a drive
> letter but it won't fool the games.

get fakecd off of www.speedstrip.com/nuderaider

Re: Software to emulate a CD-Rom

#65785

Author: Si
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:00

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what is this software that gives directorys letters

Troy Hudson <tr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> John Doe wrote:
>
> > I am looking for some software which will let me set up directories on
my
> > harddrive as drive letters and will fool my games into thinking that the
> > drive is the CD Rom.  I have software which sets up a directoy as a
drive
> > letter but it won't fool the games.
>
> get fakecd off of www.speedstrip.com/nuderaider
>

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