Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: FreeDOS make better compatibility with DOS games [current status]

2021-06-02 Thread Lukas Satin
Thanks for the info. I will test more combinations and get back. Yes, I have seen the reboot commands, so it should be fine. I try restart after leaving the app, simply from command line. None of the apps provide any docs that they would require OAKCDROM. I guess it will work with other Windows CD

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: FreeDOS make better compatibility with DOS games [current status]

2021-06-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Lukas, Glad to hear that you found a solution for copy protected games! I assume none explicitly demanded OAKCDROM? What do the docs say? The question will be what exactly OAKCDROM does better than UDVD2, regarding copy protected games. Not easy to say with closed source. But good to know t

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: FreeDOS make better compatibility with DOS games [current status]

2021-06-02 Thread Lukas Satin
Hi, I got it fixed in FreeDOS! Thanks for explaining the level 1 and level 2 drivers. It helped me. The floppy disc of Windows 98 contains about 4 different CD-ROM drivers. I went with the first oneL OAKCDROM.SYS These are the results: 1) UDVD2 + SHSUCDX = NOT WORKING 2) OAKCDROM + SHSUCDX = WORK

[Freedos-user] Fwd: FreeDOS make better compatibility with DOS games [current status]

2021-06-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Forwarding a message from Lukas, accidentally sent only to me. To already reply to his points: It is a common problem that 486 can not boot from CD-ROM, but we provide a boot floppy image with the right drivers to boot your 486 and then start our CD installer :-) Note that our installer exp