Well, I'll wait for any pc virtualization proggie or dos emu under win32, which will be accurate enough to get it work :sly: Just for information, I never managed to get the original game work under Windows 9.x/dos, except after some erm.. exe patching. Sad but true: the game is incredibly fun, but …

Btw, I've tried to use SETVER to fool it, but no success 🙁

Oh yes it is :) I've made a batch running mscdexnt before the game executable to check it: and the output tells that mscdexnt is already in memory. So, it is really loaded. I've found a page on google, with assembly routines about mscdex version checking . Such info would be interesting for patching …

Exact error message is: cd player error#1 (need mscdex 2.1). (child error #11) From Team17 support about WRF: 2.1 CD Player Error #1 (Need MSCDEX 2.1) (Child Error #21) Check to see if you can access your CD-ROM prompt within MS-DOS. If this is not the case you will need to install some CD-ROM …

nope, seems to be builtin in mscdex driver. Mscdexnt for Windows 2000 must have another builtin version which is considered as elder 🙁

I've got the same problem with the fun but weirdly programmed game World Rally Fever. VDMSound helps to pass most of the ambushes, but finally the game checks for a specific version of mscdex (2.6 I think), and fails... I can't find any way to fool it.