DOS CD games running on real hardware (pentium 75) laptop with no CD/USB \ VOGONS

DOS CD games running on real hardware (pentium 75) laptop with no CD/USB

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First post, by theshinyknight

Posted on 2025-07-06, 17:35

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I want to put some games on my Libretto 50CT, but that laptop has just a pentium 75 and no way to use a CD, unless I use a parallel CD enclosure (which I have not seen around for like 20 years?).

I looked at running daemon tools in W95 but most games didn't work. The only way I found to make it work is using tools to mount virtual CD directly in DOS but beside the work needed to make a ISO image, you also don't get audio tracks most of the time. Is there any other easy method to get these games to play on old machines, beside use cracks? I wish there was just a way to dump the entire content of the CD and have it work with DOS, without have to mount/unmount virtual drives, which is already adding a toll on a machine that is weak as is

Reply 1 of 4, by dominusprog

Posted on 2025-07-06, 19:30

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Check this post.

ISO on\for DOS?

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Reply 2 of 4, by theshinyknight

Posted on 2025-07-09, 05:21

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Thanks, this was very helpful. Will need to try the image tool and see if it does play my games correctly

Reply 3 of 4, by MAZter

Posted on 2025-07-09, 12:45

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Unless you buy pcmcia CD-ROM

Doom is what you want (c) MAZter

Reply 4 of 4, by RetroPCCupboard

Posted on 2025-07-10, 05:19

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Even if you could somehow get an optical drive attached to it, you wouldn't get any audio unless you managed to find a line-in somewhere for the onboard sound. This device doesn't really seem that suited to gaming. Cramped keyboard, awkward mouse control, tiny screen.

That said, it's a very cool laptop. Wish I had one! The closest thing I can think of to it is the Pocket 386. But the kind of games that device will play are mostly pre-CD era. There's still a massive library of DOS games that you can play on this device without needing a CD.

I think I would keep this device for early DOS games and use a bigger brother (460 CDT for example) for CD era games. Laptops will always be a compromise though.

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