[ale] Faking out Windows CD checks?

[Robert L. Harris]

Website is down but a co-worker had a copy...


Thus spake Chris Ricker (kaboom at gatech.edu):

> On Fri, 2 May 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> >   I have about 10-15 games for my kids for Windows.  There's a problem
> > in that they still don't have a respect for the fragility of CD's
> > (they're 3 and 5) and have ruined many CD's already.
> > 
> >   On some of their games I can copy the CD's to /mnt/logan/Goofy and
> > share it out with samba.  Works great as far as the game is concerned.
> > Some games though still get ticked off when they can't find the original
> > CD's in the local CDRom drive.
> > 
> >   Has anyone found a good work around for a scenario like this where the
> > physical CD's are required?  Yeah, this could possibly provide a pain
> > as this is what the copy protection is supposed to prevent but I'm tired
> > of paying $20/$30 to replace CD's because they're so easy to scratch and
> > thus ruin.
> 
> Use Daemon-Tools <http://www.daemon-tools.com/>. The site's down right now, 
> at least for me, but it's a loop-back ISO mounter for Windows that works 
> very well.... For stuff that wants the actual CD, make an ISO of it, share 
> that over Samba, and mount the ISO using Daemon-Tools.
> 
> later,
> chris
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