Novell Shareware

MSCDEX emulator for networked CD-ROM drives DOS

SAPUCDEX is a replacement for Windows NT/2K/XP's default MSCDEX emulation, MSCDEXNT, which is extremely basic and does not support many functions that DOS programs require, resulting in program failures or other anomalies. SAPUCDEX restores the functionality of the old DOS MSCDEX.
Some of the problems you might encounter are:

1. Some of the earlier CD-ROM games, such as the Coktel Vision CD games, is that the sound is on a Redbook CD audio track, separate from the data track. There can be timing issues with animations, cut scenes or events in the games where timing at certain points in the games is based on this audio track. XP's emulation of the old DOS driver (MSCDEX) is imperfect, so the games can lock up, even when using VDMSound.
2. CD audio might not play because Windows NT's MSCDEX emulator does not route CD commands to Windows.
3. Some program will quit with an error that MSCDEX is too old because the default MSCDEX emulation identifying itself with a fake version number (2.21).
4. CD Installers sometimes quit when attempting to transfer files because of unimplemented direct CD read functions in Windows NT's MSCDEX.

These might effect any CD-ROM game.

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