You're right about SHSUCDHD and SHSUCDX not supporting images with CDA tracks, you can only mount .ISO images. But ISO images don't and can't contain audio tracks so you probably mean that you're searching for another program able to mount other image files that can contain cd audio, like bin/cue? As far as I know there is no such thing for DOS.

I was referring to ISO, more as a general term than to the format itself 😀
Does SHSUCDHD and SHSUCDX can load .CUE files? I mean, some Redump or TOSEC set has audio tracks as .BIN files and the .CUE loads them
I didn't know that .ISO format don't support CDA tracks
So the only option right now for CDA tracks is to load them in Win98 and see if they work fine in MS-DOS mode, right?

konc wrote:

You're right about SHSUCDHD and SHSUCDX not supporting images with CDA tracks, you can only mount .ISO images.

Yeah only .ISO and as I told you I'm not aware of any other utility that can mount, for example, a bin/cue.
In fact I believe that when I was researching this topic I read something about it not being possible in DOS, but don't count on these last words.

Ask old hardware and driver/configuration questions in Marvin. This forum is for DOS games on modern systems. Marvin, the Paranoid Android

Oh, sorry, I'm new to this forum
I'll start a new post in the correct section

Moved to Marvin.

It might just be easier to write your bin/cue image files onto a CD-R disk and plop it on into the CD-ROM.

feipoa wrote:

It might just be easier to write your bin/cue image files onto a CD-R disk and plop it on into the CD-ROM.

Yes, but that's what I'm trying to avoid

I know, but I eventually just caved and started storing CD-ROM's. You can only fight it so far.

It seems at least games with CDA audio Will need to be burned. I think they're not to many, so It Will be a small "real" CD-Rom collection

Depends. I also thought like you, but so many have cd audio tracks from 1995-1998. I think about half my discs are with audio. Once half are with audio, it wasn't so much trouble to have the other half as non-audio, data discs.

Q1 and Q2, Shadow warrior, blood, half life, aoe, ignition, carmageddon, fatal racing ... have audio tracks. Toonstruck, phantasmagoria, Unreal/UT, duke 3D, need for speed 2 and 3 ... don't have audio tracks

The problem with games with audio tracks is that they can't be read while the sound card is being used under DOS. However I wonder what would be possible with two sound cards in a setup ?

For now the best you can do I guess is to convert bin/cue to iso meaning you won't have audio tracks ...

Quite a few games with audio tracks, like AOE or Screamer for example, also support music using Adlib or MPU-401. So you don't need them always to get music. And with a good wavetable, you may even get better music than from the cd.

An alternative approach to software would be something like a Gotek for CD images, connecting to the DOS PC via ATAPI. Now that would be a nifty piece of hardware...

dionb wrote:

An alternative approach to software would be something like a Gotek for CD images, connecting to the DOS PC via ATAPI. Now that would be a nifty piece of hardware...

That would be the perfect solution, but I think there is no such device available

collector wrote:

Ask old hardware and driver/configuration questions in Marvin. This forum is for DOS games on modern systems. Marvin, the Paranoid Android

How do you even run old DOS games on modern systems if its not through something like DOSBox?

86box or PCem... 😜

Nodoyuna wrote:

dionb wrote:

An alternative approach to software would be something like a Gotek for CD images, connecting to the DOS PC via ATAPI. Now that would be a nifty piece of hardware...

That would be the perfect solution, but I think there is no such device available

that exists amd is being sold on amazon
a cdrom emulador but it does not support cd with audio either

Which device It is?