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First post, by Duffman

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I was wondering, does anyone know of any Virtual CD/DVD software that used VXD drivers in Win98?

I ask because I would like to use CD audio for DOS games.

I know there is daemon tools 3.47 for Win98, but that uses a WDM driver for it's drive emulation and not VXD, so it doesn't work for DOS games.

Switching the sound card drivers from VXD over to WDM would mean that CD Audio would work, but it would also defeat the whole point of using an ISA sound card in the first place.
By using a WDM driver you end up using Microsoft's crappy sbemul.sys for DOS games rather than the actual capabilities of your ISA sound card.

I mean you might as well just use XP if you're gonna use WDM drivers for sound in DOS games.

So I ask, does anyone know of any Virtual CD/DVD software that used VXD drivers in Win98?

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Reply 1 of 4, by BitWrangler

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Check out this thread, there's a lot of talk about WDM solutions, but there's some other ideas... Windows 98SE + Virtual CD Software + CD Audio

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Reply 2 of 4, by Duffman

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I went through that thread, no solution there.

any other ideas?

MB: ASRock B550 Steel Legend
CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X
RAM: Corsair 64GB Kit (4x16GB) DDR4 Veng LPX C18 4000MHz
SSDs: 2x Crucial MX500 1TB SATA + 1x Samsung 980 (non-pro) 1TB NVMe SSD
OSs: Win 11 Pro (NVMe) + WinXP Pro SP3 (SATA)
GPU: RTX2070 (11) GT730 (XP)

Reply 3 of 4, by elszgensa

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I know of one but have no idea about the status of its audio support, i.e. whether it would fit your use case: "Virtual CD-ROM" by Logicraft, later bought out by Microtest and renamed to "Virtual CD".

Reply 4 of 4, by Duffman

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any idea where I can find that software? was it archived anywhere?

edit:
never mind, found it on archive.org

MB: ASRock B550 Steel Legend
CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X
RAM: Corsair 64GB Kit (4x16GB) DDR4 Veng LPX C18 4000MHz
SSDs: 2x Crucial MX500 1TB SATA + 1x Samsung 980 (non-pro) 1TB NVMe SSD
OSs: Win 11 Pro (NVMe) + WinXP Pro SP3 (SATA)
GPU: RTX2070 (11) GT730 (XP)