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gadget_cdrom converts your Raspberry Pi to virtual usb cdrom
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Request: DOS Support; + Audio CD #14

Open hjnijlunsing opened 1 month ago

hjnijlunsing commented 1 month ago

One use case where this appliance would shine would be DOS support. Unfortunately I have not been able to make this work (https://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm)

This would give retro gamers the possibility to switch game cd's without having a real optical drive. Should this be working?

Another thing I would imagine which might be useful is Audio CD support (also for dos gaming); would it be possible to intercept the play track commands to the virtual USB CDROM, and play FLAC/MP3 based on trackxx.wav on the Raspberry PI; Thus I am thinking Pi-Zero -> HDMI -> HDMIAudio Extractor -> CD AUDIO

hjnijlunsing commented 1 month ago

Ok, it actually seems to work on systems. I was able to use this as a USB CDROM in DOS on a VIA board. (Managed to get Red Alert working; Allies CD; 11th hour Install went fine but froze after starting the game) However, switching CD's in DOS causes failures and not able to recognize the CD anymore.

Would it be possible to switch CD's in DOS?