user33331 wrote:Where is a reliable place to download OAKCDROM.SYS ?
Please define "reliable place". 😉 You're asking for ~25 year old software.
OAK and Microsoft surely do nolonger host this software on their offical servers or BBSes.
Or is it a default program too in Dos6.22 and/or Win3.1 ?
Partially, yes. MSCDEX, the MS CD-ROM Extension, was included with them.
But not the CD-ROM driver in most cases. In these days, before IDE/ATAPI became standard,
it was common practice for each CD-ROM drive manufacturer to provide its own.
I believe, the most secure source nowadays is the original Windows 98SE CD-ROM with the hologram that you have got in your cup-board.
Or more precisely, the 3.5" 1,44MB MS-DOS Start-Up disk which Windows Setup creates.
(The CD-ROM used El-Burito err "El-Torito" format and contained a fake 1.44MB image one of the tracks.)
That being said, Windows XP also had the ability to create an Win Me Start-Up disk, with MS-DOS 8.0, I believe.
It did use a RAM disk, though, so it's perhaps not so easy to extract (on a modern PC).
Unless you boot it on your old PC and manually copy the oakcdrom.sys to c:.
Unsecure sources:
http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3083
https://www.hiren.info/downloads/dos-files
DOS CDROM drivers
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?171 … 1-CD-ROM-driver
Re: How do I set up a CDrom in MSDOS 6.22?
Anyway, good luck! 😁
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