Is there any way to Mount Virtual CD's from VB?

11 Oct 2006 2:39 AM

Terry Olsen

My 5 year old has lots of games that require the CD be in the drive. I would
like to come up with a program that will mount the .iso image to a virtual
cd-rom drive and then run the game executable. Is there any way to do this
with VB? Possibly using the VCDROM.SYS from the Virtual CD Control Panel?
Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

11 Oct 2006 7:02 AM

HKSHK

Dear Mr. Olsen,

> My 5 year old has lots of games that require the CD be in the drive. I would
> like to come up with a program that will mount the .iso image to a virtual
> cd-rom drive and then run the game executable. Is there any way to do this
> with VB? Possibly using the VCDROM.SYS from the Virtual CD Control Panel?
> Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Why not use something like the Daemon tools to mount/dismount the ISO
and then use VB (or maybe even a batch file) to run the game?

Best Regards,

HKSHK

11 Oct 2006 1:31 PM

Terry Olsen

The idea is not to have to unmount/mount the images manually. I want my 5
year old to be able to double-click a shortcut that will run a program or
batch file that will unmount the current image, mount the correct image for
the game, then run the game. I think I may have found a solution in VaporCD.
It's a command-line program to create/mount images. I'll be trying that out
tonight.

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"HKSHK" <hk***@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> Dear Mr. Olsen,
>
>> My 5 year old has lots of games that require the CD be in the drive. I
>> would like to come up with a program that will mount the .iso image to a
>> virtual cd-rom drive and then run the game executable. Is there any way
>> to do this with VB? Possibly using the VCDROM.SYS from the Virtual CD
>> Control Panel? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
>
> Why not use something like the Daemon tools to mount/dismount the ISO and
> then use VB (or maybe even a batch file) to run the game?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> HKSHK

11 Oct 2006 5:15 PM

teslar91

Terry Olsen wrote:

> The idea is not to have to unmount/mount the images manually. I want my 5
> year old to be able to double-click a shortcut that will run a program or
> batch file that will unmount the current image, mount the correct image for
> the game, then run the game. I think I may have found a solution in VaporCD.
> It's a command-line program to create/mount images. I'll be trying that out
> tonight.

Hi Terry. If VaporCD doesn't work out for you, I believe DaemonTools
must offer command-line control also. I've seen a program (CureROM)
that allows you to create desktop shortcuts that will set DaemonTools
options, mount an image, and run an .exe of your choice; proving
external control of DaemonTools is possible.