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Help required with Microsoft Beethoven ("the Ninth") for Windows 3.1

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First post, by acb764se

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Hi there.......I need help with a piece of software from Microsoft.

My dosbox installation of Windows 3.1 went very smoothly (congratulations for a swell piece of code! 😀 all seems to be working fine,
except this particular item.
What happens is, when the command "imgmount d: /tmp/MSBeethoven.cue -t iso -fs iso" in the conf file is issued I get this:

MSCDEX: Failure: File is either no iso/cue image or contains errors.

and I get no d: drive. The .cue file appears below, and i can't see anything wrong with it, execpt the disc seems to be a bit longer than most.
Note that another very similar program called "Microsoft Mozart" installs and runs w/o a glitch.
Any hint why is this? Thank you!
PS the host is Linux CENTOS 7 and .cue/.bin files where obtained with Brasero.

FILE "/tmp/MSBeethoven.bin" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:02:00
INDEX 01 01:07:08
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 00 17:44:18
INDEX 01 17:44:25
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 00 27:54:02
INDEX 01 27:54:12
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 00 43:45:43
INDEX 01 43:45:47
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 00 69:29:65
INDEX 01 69:29:69

Reply 1 of 1, by acb764se

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Hi.....sorry for replying to myself, please do not waste your time on this posting!

I looked with gdb, found that isoDrive::loadImage returns something out-of-specs, type=16 instead of 1.
So it appears that my image itself is not good, that is, the .bin file is "bad", not the .cue file.

Doing a hex dump of MSBeethoven.bin, compared with my MSMozart.bin, has confirmed a funny shift of 7 bytes, and a "Standard Identifier" of CDROM instead of CD001, and in the wrong place too. Soooooooo...........I have some sort of copy protection(?).

Also, although Brasero did get me an (unuseful) image, ImgBurn on Windows loops forever on it.

Finally, mounting the CD itself in DOSbox, instead of its image, works fine.

I give up! Bye!

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