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[Gargantou]

So I spoke to one of the main developers of DOSBox today, and he said the best thing for game compatibility is always to keep the CDs themselves in a bin/cue format, and have DOSBox mount the images directly, rather than mounting an 'emulated' CD drive that has for example an MDS of a game mounted.

I just figured I'd post this here for people that do their own backups of their DOS games like myself.

So in short terms: Qbix recommends 1. making the CD copies in .bin/.cue rather than other formats

2. Mounting the CD copies directly, rather than using daemon tools to mount the copies at drive F:, then in DOSBox mounting drive F: as a CD-ROM drive "D:"

Sorry if this is the wrong part of the forum but since Qbix told me that this might fix compatibility problems with some DOS games, I figured it could be relevant to this part of the forum.

Hope someone finds some use for these tips.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Yep. This also seems to give slightly better overall speed.

[dosraider]

Also to be said: don't use your real dos CDs but an image.
You'll avoid all those CD drive spinup/spindown times.
Modern CDdrives (contrary to the old 2x 4x drives) also have a nasty tendens to heat up.
etcetera.....

[RRS]

Interesting info, thnx, I was always doing it the other way around, hoping it makes no difference (turns out it does). That's because I hate typing long filenames in dosbox :P

[dosraider]

None obliges you to use long file names when creating a CD image .....
And you always can do the imgmount with a batch file in dosbox.

And whilst we're on the subject of creating CD images, a nice and freeware soft:
http://www.imgburn.com/
Highly recommended.