[ale] Faking out Windows CD checks?

[Chris Ricker]

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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