worth a try, IF (big if) you are sure that the games do NOT use directX
(since thatis not supported under win4lin).
but why not just copy the cdrom to disk and point windows at that?
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:55:42PM -0500, Yan Seiner wrote:
> OK so I have a hare-brained idea.
>
> My kids have about a dozen CD-based games. It's a pain having to swap
> them all the time; besides, they get all gooey and they're a pain to
> clean and the CD-ROM is noisy and slow to boot.
>
> So I was recompiling my kernel and saw this little tidbit:
>
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP:
>
> Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block device;
> you can then create a file system on that block device and mount it just
> as you would mount other block devices such as hard drive partitions,
> CDROM drives or floppy drives.
>
> Here's the idea:
>
> Take an old 6.5 GB HD, create a bunch of CD-ROM images on it, mount them
> via the loopback device as CDs. Then have Win4Lin use them as CD-ROM
> drives.
>
> Has anyone tried this? Does anyone know if this will blow win4lin's
> mind? Is this possible?
>
> --Yan
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