Yes, I have.

Mount the one drive to where the game is on the hard drive. Then when mounting the CDROM, use:

mount d x:\ -t cdrom -ioctl

Of course, D is just a typical letter I would assign for the CD-ROM. And just replace X with your correct drive letter. The key for me was to use the IO CTL function in order for it to launch. I even got it to use CD audio, but for some reason, having not tried this in some time, I no longer hear the music and such from the CD. Even though the drive is playing it. I'm probably overlooking something.

Well, either way. The game will work for the most part from what I understand. But there is a problem with the cutscenes in which they simply speed by. I guess this is due to the fact the game is not properly "hearing" the stuff playing off the CD to be able to synchronize to.

I gave that a shot, but nothing new happened. Then I realized I'm using Windows 98, and the -iotcl command is for 2000/XP only. I tried the -aspi command for the heck of it, and the game actually started. Too bad it's slow and has choppy sound, and definitely unplayable. 😒

Ah, I see. Well, I did some extensive testing. The game works fine for me. But the second cut scene freezes. I guess this one won't continue until it knows the end of the track for that one is played through. As a result, there's no playing this game until DOSBox manages to somehow relay more information from the CD-ROM that the game is looking for.

Like all Coktel CD gmes, it is very picky about MSCDEX. The game works fine on XP with VDMSound if you use SAPUCDEX.

I realized the lack of CD audio was due to the cable from the drive to the sound card remaining unplugged from one of the times I opened my case. Heh.

I have yet to ever get this game to work with VDMS. (Frankly, I've had better luck in DOSBox.) Afraid SAPUCDEX doesn't even work. Perhaps you could be a little more specific than that because I may be missing something.

Go to the DOS Environment tab in the advanced settings of your VDMS shortcut and put SAPUCDEX in the autoexec.bat window and make sure that you uncheck the "Enable low-level CD-ROM support (MSCDEX)" box. That box will try to load mscdexnt, which the Coktel games do not like.

I actually did exactly that. Doesn't do a thing.

I have tried this successfully on three different machines. What version of VDMS are you using? Do have sapucdex.dll and sapucdex.exe in your VDMS directory?

VDMS version is 2.0.4.

Those files are in the VDMS directory, yes.

Try the new version of VDMS, 2.1.0 BETA, VDMSound 2.1.0 PUBLIC BETA

Ehm...nevermind. I am using 2.1.0 Sorry.