Jorpho:
DosBOX does a wonderful job most of the time, but some games require messing with config.sys / autoexec.bat configurations (Big Red Adventure comes to mind).
I wanted to install REAL MSDOS in order to attempt to get it running on DosBOX through a DOS image.
Since I needed a CDROM driver, this didn't really work out in the end...
I also wanted to test some other broken games to see if they work if they have their "known" environment...

by replacing cdrom driver (one loaded in config.sys) with a stub one

Maybe that could be done by grabbing some publicly available cdrom
driver and replacing the atapi-interfacing with callbacks. But no idea
if that's feasible.

kruwi wrote:

!!! Hot !!! Hot !!! Hot !!!

If you are on Linux and have a legal windows 2000/xp version
you can try out Qemu with win 2000/xp as guest system, use the kernel-kqemu acceleration module and install vdm-sound in your virtual machine. Now that's fast ..., at least for the games that are comaptible with vdm-sound.

Why not just use FreeDOS + (Qemu + kqemu)? much easier than going through with a horrible windows and a silly outdated hack 😜