[ale] Faking out Windows CD checks?

[John Marasco]

I burned copies of all the kids games and just gave them the copies.  But
that still leaves some difficulty in identifying which disk is which (for
the kids, not me).  If you discover a way to run the games from a Samba
mount I would be very interested (if you wouldn't mind posting).

The daemon-tools idea sounded interesting but the link was down.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Robert L.
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Harris
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 4:47 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Faking out Windows CD checks?




  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.

Robert
  P.S. Don't bother with the "play linux games only" as there's not a
Goofy Skating, Hotwheels crash, Dr Sues, etc  yet.  Yes, I've got them
playing frozen bubble but they like the Disney games, etc still.



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