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The search for a good cd-rom drive for dos cd games

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First post, by Soupdragon

Posted on 2012-09-26, 16:38

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I need a quite IDE CD-ROM drive for my mid 90s dos pc. I have a lot of CD based adventure games so I need it to be quiet. I bought a Quad speed Mitsumi off ebay but it gave me read errors with regular discs and didn’t like the cheap Tescos CD-R discs I had burnt. I like to run my games from a backup copy so I want it to be able to read CD-R discs. I have a few 40x plus drives but there all way to noisy.

Anyone have and make and model suggestions?

Thanks

Reply 1 of 6, by Davros

Posted on 2012-09-26, 16:48

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try slowing down the cd drive
http://cdspeed2000.com/download.html

edit: cos cdspeed is a 30day trial

nero cdspeed - freeware
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/cd_dvd/dvd_ … ro_cd_speed.cfm

or
qpxtool
http://qpxtool.sourceforge.net/snapshots.html

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Reply 2 of 6, by Soupdragon

Posted on 2012-09-26, 17:14

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Thanks Davros I hadnt thought about slowing down a faster driver but all those are for windows and I am running dos 6.22. I am now looking for a dos program but so far no luck.

Reply 3 of 6, by luckybob

Posted on 2012-09-26, 17:22

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A little secret? The 40x Plextor scsi drives work WONDERS. they are near silent and FAST. 40x lite-on drives are also very good. they are ide.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 4 of 6, by Soupdragon

Posted on 2012-09-26, 19:05

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Found a working dos program also called cdspeed. I had to test a few drives to find one that would work at a slow speed with it. Using a 52x Asus cd-rw at quad speed works great. Just tried Day of the Tentacle and then Full Trottle. 😁

I found it on this page some other intrested stuff also

http://sta.c64.org/dosprg.html