First post, by Xenphor
I've been having issues getting cd audio to work with daemon tools when using vxd drivers in Windows with a YMF744 sound card. Some games like quake don't play any cd audio while others like need for speed III and IV play just fine. This is actually better than what I've experienced with a Sound Blaster Live Value Card with vxd drivers where need for speed games didn't get cd audio at all. I read about a solution to get cd audio working with quake by disabling hardware sound acceleration, but that introduces some bad audio lag and causes the entire game to pause for a few seconds before the music plays. Of course then there's DOS, which I don't believe has any sort of virtual cd drive tool that I'm aware of.
I'd rather not mess around with optical drives and cds as I have 0 nostalgia for that headache inducing media, so I was wondering if someone could make an optical drive emulator for the PC? I know there's the Gotek floppy emulator that seems to work well and of course many different console systems have such devices (rhea, phoebe, gdemu, satiator, psio, etc). The only thing I've come across for the pc is this thing: http://iodd.kr/wordpress/product/iodd-2531/. But that seems to be aimed at IT professionals for mounting installation ISOs, not for mounting game images with CDDA.