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

> Something like this already exists (hurrah!) for Windoze (boo!).
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> 
> Speed-wise, I'd say that, on my P120, it's roughly equivalent to a 4x drive
> when using compressed images. For uncompressed images it would doubtless be
> much faster, but I haven't tried them yet.
> 
> The only thing missing really is the ability to master CD-ROMs directly to a
> virtual drive. At work, this would save me a lot of time, and my boss a lot of
> money in wasted CDs ;)
> 
> 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.

Any  takes on writing some shareware software to do this?  Its just that I
can get hold of a 1xSCSI drive cheap, but for me at the mo.  anything more
expensive is to much.  So being able to virtualize the cd would be a great
time saver.

Randall Lasini

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