I was playing a few CD-ROM games in dosbox 0.70 with my usual mounting.
Say if wanted to play Rama i mounted like this (F is my real HD and D is my real cd rom).

Mount f f:\games\sierra\ramados
Mount d d:\ -t cdrom
Then Ramados.exe starts the game and away I go. :)

Now to the little problem I have.
For instance, I was playing Rama & Psycho Pinball (cd rom versions). When in Rama I click forward, left, right or whatever, but there is a slight delay just like the cd has to think for a while before letting me doing those actions. And when in Psycho Pinball it sometimes is the same, when I load a table it takes a little while to load it (should load real quick). Just thought if there is a workaround for this "issue"? Increasing cycles doesn't seem to help anyway :(

Try this little handy program - CD Bremse - and set the speed of the CD-ROM to a fixed speed. Either to a slow speed so it doesn't have to speed up each time and responds quickly, or to a fast speed so it's always already speeded up.

The best workaround here is creating ISO images of those CD's and using them with DOSBox' IMGMOUNT utility. This way everything is loaded from your harddrive (and that means = fast).

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Scatty @ May 31 2007, 06:26 AM) [snapback]292263[/snapback]</div>Thanks i'll try that program. I will let you know if this fixed the problem :)


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ May 31 2007, 12:57 PM) [snapback]292342[/snapback]</div>Ok, but exactly how do I mount say Rama for instance? I already have ISO images of that game, but I'm afraid I don't know how to use them, especially when it comes to disc swapping ;)

I really want to play that game using ISOS as you stated :)

Try DaemonTools for mounting ISO's, it's very simple to use and recognizes many ISO formats.

Well, how do I start the game using those ISOS? And when the game tells me to change disc, how do I do that using those ISOS? A guide or something would be nice :)

Do not mount an ISO with any virtual drives if you want to use it in DOSBox!
Been there, done that, don't want to ever again: It may work, but will cause worse skipping than from the real drive.

DOSBox has its' own virtual drive and you should use this one.
As to how:
imgmount D c:\images\game.iso -t iso

Support for multiple ISO images has been added in v0.70 It works like that:
imgmount D c:\images\gameiso1.iso c:\images\gameiso2.iso -t iso
(You can mount more than two images, of course - this is just an example)

Once mounted, CTRL+F4 cycles between the images.

So if you have ISO1, ISO2 and ISO3 mounted in sequence, CTRL+F4 it will go from ISO1 to ISO2, next from ISO2 to ISO3 and when you tell it to cycle forward from ISO3, it will go back to ISO1.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ May 31 2007, 03:09 PM) [snapback]292369[/snapback]</div>Yes! Thank YOU!! Mr.Horseman :D You have been such great help!! Now I can play all cd-rom games much better with no sound stuttering/skipping at all and no cd loading! Those ISOS are way better than running games from cd-rom ;)

Once again, thanks mate! :)

This also works for floppy images, in case you ever need to use any.

When using the BOOT command (for booter games), you can specify several images in sequence - it will work the same as with IMGMOUNT.