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- BCD copy?_right! 1996 by Buldozer Ver 1.386
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-
- What is BCD anyway?
-
- Although the name might suggest something about Binary Coded Decimals, it's
- rather Buldozer's CD (faker), and YES, I know there are a lot of'em around
- already. So why have I decided to write 'just another' one ? Read on.
-
-
- So what's so interesting about it ?
-
- Quite a lot of it, really. It works with no problems on SUBST-ed local
- drives, MAP-ed network drives (at least I tryed it on Novell Netware 4.1), Win
- 3.1, Win 3.11 with 32-bit disk/file access, Win '95, offers a possibility of
- faking up to 9 CD drives, with different labels for each one, and I could
- still find something to brag about.
-
-
- And what's the use of a CD faker in 'licenced' environment ?
-
- Maybe I should put that in a little story...
- Once uppon a time in a far away land, there lived a guy who liked to call
- himself Buldozer. He's been a .ASM programmer for as long as he cared about,
- and worked on a local network, which ran Novel Netware 3.11. He had one CD-ROM
- drive on the server, and was quite happy with it, as all the software
- recognised it as a CD-ROM drive, and made no fuss about it (though he had to
- load quite a lot of drivers on the client PC to get that CD working in the
- first place). But then one day, he upgraded to an all shiny and new Novell
- Netware 4.1 server, which offered him much more than he could ever dream
- about. He also got a few more CD-ROM drives, and had put them in a server, so
- he could have access to them from any machine on the network. Even more - he
- also found out that he has just enough cash to buy some new and cool games
- (like Command'n'Conquer for instance) on CDs, so he could play them, in the
- meantime while he wasn't busy coding. But, as there always is a 'but', a
- problem arose. The games refused to work. They all protested, that he was
- supposed to put the CD in the CD-ROM drive, although it most definitely WAS in
- the drive - how else could he have started the installation utilities anyway ?
- To shorten the story a bit - network CD drives never appear as read CDs on a
- Novell Netware 4.1 network, but rather as normal HDD volumes. So the games
- didn't recognise the drive and he couldn't play with them, although he
- really wanted to. Then an idea stroke him: "What if I told those games, that
- this really ARE CD-ROM drives, and not just normal hard discs ?!" Not long
- after, there was a FCD 1.0, which worked under DOS, and made Command'n'Conquer
- work very well. Encouraged by this he went to the local shop and bought a few
- other CDs, and most of them worked perfectly, until he found Fade To Black,
- which worked alright, but where were those beautiful sequences, he had seen in
- the shop ? The answer was a BCD 1.0 which also had support for direct reads
- from CDs. Guess you can all tell that, he had seen Win 3.11 in the meantime
- and is playing around with Win '95 at the moment, so here's the ver. 1.386
- (god only knows where the version number came from), which works just
- perfectly on these platforms too.
-
-
- Great ! So how can I use it ?
-
- If you just start BCD with no parameters it will display a short help screen,
- with lists all the parameters which I will describe here in more detail.
-
- D: - is the name of the drive, that you want to fake. For instance
- 'BCD E:' will start faking the E: drive without any label.
-
- /n:Number - Specify number of CD drives that you want to fake.
- 'BCD E: /n:4' will fake drives E:, F:, G: and H:, with no
- labels.
-
- /l[N]:"LABEL" - Set the label of the drive (number N).
- 'BCD F: /n:3 /l:"GDI" /l2:"NOD"' will fake drive F: with
- label GDI, drive G: with label NOD and drive H: without any
- label. (/l is equal to /l1)
-
- /d - Disable CD faking. Not many uses for this one, but might come
- handy.
-
- /e - Enable faking. If you disabled the CD faker with /d command,
- then you can enable it again with /e.
-
- /i - Displays the current BCD parameters. (whether it is installed
- or not, which drives are faked, what are their labels, ...)
-
- /w - Just make BCD resident, without any faking parameters and
- stay in the disabled state until you get some parameters.
- This is the usual way, you'd load BCD for WIN support, as it
- has to be resident before entering windows. (just put
- 'BCD /w' in your AUTOEXEC.BAT)
-
- /u - Uninstalls BCD if possible (last TSR loaded), otherwise it
- just disables it.
-
- Example:
-
- If F:\DATA\GAMES is the directory than you want to fake, then you can use command SUBST to
- "make" a driver out of the directory: SUBST X: F:\DATA\GAMES and after that just type
- BCD X: and X: (F:\DATA\GAMES) has becomed a CD drive. If you want to make a whole drive a
- "CD-ROM" then there is no need for SUBST, just type the real drive letter after BCD command.
-
- It doesn't work for this program: Program_Name !
-
- Hey, I haven't tryed it with ALL existing CD software, so just let me know at
- toni.rutar@uni-mb.si, and I will try to make a 1.386.1 version ASAP. :)
-
-
- My system crashes when using BCD !
-
- Do the same thing as if you found a program, for which BCD doesn't work.
-
-
- I just want to tell you what a great faker it is !
-
- Write to above address - any comments (good or bad) will be greatly
- appreciated.
-
-
-
- bye till ver 1.386.1,
- Buldozer
-
-
- PS: And NO, I'm not responsible if it burns up your machine ;]