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

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From: Mathew Hendry
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 00:00

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Randall Lasini <suicyde@eck.net.au> wrote:

: On 26 Jul 1997 02:03:10 Mathew Hendry wrote about "Re: Virtual CD-roms and DMS'ers for CD's?":

[Virtual CD-ROM systems for Windows]

: > Anyway, that's proof of concept - now someone can write it for the Amiga. :)

: Well,  thats  exactly  what  I was originally asking about.  But not quiet
: what I had in mind.  AFter all, if you are going to make a virtual CD on a
: HD  partition, you would want to be able to boot from it like you can with
: and amiga/cdrom.  If you are using a hardfile image of it, it would not be
: able to be booted from.  But the theory is still the same.

Being able to boot from such an image is a simple matter of script files.

mount vcd0:
assign sys: vcd0:

; ... more assigns ...

cd sys:
execute s:startup-sequence

A hardfile also avoids the need for repartioning, and prevents space from
being wasted: a dedicated partition would have to be 650MB in size to cope
with all CDs.

And, it would be inconvenient to be forced to create more partitions if one
wanted to have 2 or more CDs available at once. With hardfiles, all one has
to do is mount more devices.

-- Mat.

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From: scampi@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
Subject: Re: Virtual CD-roms and DMS'ers for CD's?
Date: 1997/07/26
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