On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:27:54 +0100 Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net> wrote: > Just to add some more details: > - The big difference from CDEmu to loopback is, that CDEmu actually > emulates a CD drive (with all it's commands and interfaces), while the > loopback method only makes an ISO image mountable. > device emulator vs. filesystem
I sometimes play old games under Wine on newer computers that don't have CD drives. I have the CD images created long ago on a backup drive, but the games need the emulation CDEmu provides to satisfy various copy protection schemes. CDEmu has built-in DPM emulation, transfer rate emulation and bad sector emulation, and support for an extensive range of disc image types - all of which make this project essential for playing a number of old games on newer machines without an optical drive. Debian would certainly benefit from including this software. Since we package Wine, we should package CDEmu. Cheers, Adam
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