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CDROM speed issue for MSDOS installer

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First post, by Yetter

Posted on 2016-07-02, 01:36

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I recently found a copy of Star Trek: Final Unity, a game I've wanted to play for years and years. It was an ISO. I used PowerISO to unpack it and then DosBox to launch the installer. Its an old MS DOS installer, and it does a sys req check before it starts. Here is where it tells me that my CD ROM speed isn't fast enough to play this game. My computer doesn't have a CDROM drive altogether. Anyone know a potential work around for this problem?

Reply 1 of 6, by collector

Posted on 2016-07-02, 04:20

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Yetter wrote:
It was an ISO. I used PowerISO to unpack it

Note that abandonware is not supported here.

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Reply 2 of 6, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2016-07-02, 04:32

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You can get original media on ePay.

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Reply 3 of 6, by Jorpho

Posted on 2016-07-02, 05:05

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Apparently just decreasing the number of cycles will solve the CDROM check. (That's according to http://www.dosgames.com/forum/about4828.html , but keep in mind that thread is eleven years old and most of it probably no longer applies.)

Reply 4 of 6, by collector

Posted on 2016-07-02, 15:20

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He didn't say he was using DOSBox.

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Reply 5 of 6, by Jorpho

Posted on 2016-07-02, 15:53

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Yes he did..?

Yetter wrote:
I used PowerISO to unpack it and then DosBox to launch the installer.

Reply 6 of 6, by collector

Posted on 2016-07-03, 15:29

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You are right. I was doing several things simultaneously. Still does not change the fact that it is most probably abandonware if he does not have the original CD to access the files.

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