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Then where should I put the 3dfx Voodoo1, Thrustmaster ACM game card, Pentium III processor, and Yamaha SW60XG MIDI card? 🙁

And am I the only one who think that it's time for DosFreak to have a new avatar? 😜

I think it's only the SATA drives that lack the analog outputs. I've never seen an IDE drive that didn't have them.

For your retro rig, I would limit myself to just having a CD-Rom drive. Very few games used a DVD drive back then, and even then, those came in CD-ROM versions as well.

Old Thrashbarg wrote:

I think it's only the SATA drives that lack the analog outputs. I've never seen an IDE drive that didn't have them.

pianoman72 wrote:

For your retro rig, I would limit myself to just having a CD-Rom drive. Very few games used a DVD drive back then, and even then, those came in CD-ROM versions as well.

I see. Thanks folks!

Well, the only DVD-based retro games I can't think of is Wing Commander IV, but I believe there is also a CD version for that one.

I remember seeing an ISO mount program for MS-DOS but I don't know if it does cue/bin or not.

http://adoxa.110mb.com/shsucdx/index.html

DosFreak wrote:

I remember seeing an ISO mount program for MS-DOS but I don't know if it does cue/bin or not.

http://adoxa.110mb.com/shsucdx/index.html

Very interesting. Always love CD image mount program. Using images prolongs the age of your drive, especially with those fragile laptop drive.

I wonder if it support CD audio in DOS though... Need time to try it out.

Just a note though: most games that uses CD audio, like Vangers and Test Drive 5, always look for the first letter of your CD ROM drives for CDA track. For example, you have three CD drives: E:, F:, and G:. The CD audio only works when you put the CD on drive E:.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Very interesting. Always love CD image mount program. Using images prolongs the age of your drive, especially with those fragile […]
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DosFreak wrote:

I remember seeing an ISO mount program for MS-DOS but I don't know if it does cue/bin or not.

http://adoxa.110mb.com/shsucdx/index.html

Very interesting. Always love CD image mount program. Using images prolongs the age of your drive, especially with those fragile laptop drive.

I wonder if it support CD audio in DOS though... Need time to try it out.

Just a note though: most games that uses CD audio, like Vangers and Test Drive 5, always look for the first letter of your CD ROM drives for CDA track. For example, you have three CD drives: E:, F:, and G:. The CD audio only works when you put the CD on drive E:.

But if you make ISO images of all your CD's, you have to have a place to store them which means big hard drive required and whatever wear and tear you save on your CD/DVD drive is transferred to the hard drive. It's probably cheaper to replace the optical drive when it dies than to replace the hard drive.

sliderider wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Very interesting. Always love CD image mount program. Using images prolongs the age of your drive, especially with those fragile […]
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DosFreak wrote:

I remember seeing an ISO mount program for MS-DOS but I don't know if it does cue/bin or not.

http://adoxa.110mb.com/shsucdx/index.html

Very interesting. Always love CD image mount program. Using images prolongs the age of your drive, especially with those fragile laptop drive.

I wonder if it support CD audio in DOS though... Need time to try it out.

Just a note though: most games that uses CD audio, like Vangers and Test Drive 5, always look for the first letter of your CD ROM drives for CDA track. For example, you have three CD drives: E:, F:, and G:. The CD audio only works when you put the CD on drive E:.

But if you make ISO images of all your CD's, you have to have a place to store them which means big hard drive required and whatever wear and tear you save on your CD/DVD drive is transferred to the hard drive. It's probably cheaper to replace the optical drive when it dies than to replace the hard drive.

Well, my concern is mostly for those thin DVD drive on your laptop, which tends to wear quickly. Desktop drives are generally more durable.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

sliderider wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Very interesting. Always love CD image mount program. Using images prolongs the age of your drive, especially with those fragile laptop drive.

I wonder if it support CD audio in DOS though... Need time to try it out.

Just a note though: most games that uses CD audio, like Vangers and Test Drive 5, always look for the first letter of your CD ROM drives for CDA track. For example, you have three CD drives: E:, F:, and G:. The CD audio only works when you put the CD on drive E:.

But if you make ISO images of all your CD's, you have to have a place to store them which means big hard drive required and whatever wear and tear you save on your CD/DVD drive is transferred to the hard drive. It's probably cheaper to replace the optical drive when it dies than to replace the hard drive.

Well, my concern is mostly for those thin DVD drive on your laptop, which tends to wear quickly. Desktop drives are generally more durable.

Laptops don't usually come with the largest of hard drives unless you pay thousands of dollars for a super high end machine that may even have multiple hard drives, but not many people can afford those.

sliderider wrote:

Laptops don't usually come with the largest of hard drives unless you pay thousands of dollars for a super high end machine that may even have multiple hard drives, but not many people can afford those.

Nope, I put them on external hard drive, and then plug the hard drive into the laptop when I just want to use those images --like listening to music.

Yup, I don't rip my CDs into MP3s; I "rip" them into CD images.

I documented the use of shsucdx a couple of months ago (Using ISO images in DOS).

You won't get cd-audio in DOS, there's no practical way of routing the audio tracks to any output device. Other than that, it works great for the majority of cd-rom based games (eg those that always require a disc in the drive).

Question.

Did the front headphone out disappear around the same time when the rear analogue port got dropped?

That might be another option...

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Question.

Did the front headphone out disappear around the same time when the rear analogue port got dropped?

That might be another option...

I thought the front headphone went out much earlier then the rear analogue audiocable port.
I'll go check and edit this post in a few minutes or so

Edit: I checked my stash of optical drives and the front headphone port started to disappear around 2002/2003 or so. Most CD burners still have the port while most DVD drives don't.

Edit2: Actually, I never even noticed the back audio port missing in any drive. Though otoh, I haven't even gotten into the sata optical drive world yet, all of mine are IDE 😜

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