Virtual CD-roms and DMS'ers for CD's?

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From: Randall Lasini
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:00

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With  all  this talk on the net/pages/mags about the future of amiga games
being  on CD's I wonder if anybody has considered the use of virtual CDrom
drives and DMS application to "archive" CD's.

My  problem is I have a psuedo CD rom via NFS/ethernet/PC-soundblaster and
it  is  only  single  spin  as  well.  What I would like to do is set up a
single  650M  partition  on  my  Harddrive(I am getting a 2gig soon), then
'clone'  the  CD  across  the  network  and  put it locally so that I have
Standard  filesystem access to the CD's data.  Also if the games reads(via
a  custom trackdisk-filesystem setup) the 'driver' to the virtual CD would
act properly as a normal CD rom.

I  am also interested in the propect of DMSing a CDROM so that I would not
have  to  copy  it across a network each time I wanted to play a different
game, I would just have to unDMS the CD over the old one.

Any ideas on this software?  Is it posible.

Randall Lasini

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From: Randall Lasini <suicyde@eck.net.au>
Subject: Virtual CD-roms and DMS'ers for CD's?
Date: 1997/07/25
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