Gd-rom Driver Good News

[GD666]

I'm at the moment working on a gd-rom driver for win xp :santa: :drool:
i know,some will say it's complete nonesense as GD-ROMS can't be read in
a standard cdr drive:I KNOW :bounce:
but I have had a nice surprise using an old external caddy scsi drive
not that it can read full gd-rom at once but i ve been able to start reading from backward and also from chosen start sector
ain't it nice? that more than i ve been able to copy part of the hidden data on original "revolt" gd-rom before my pc crashes. :ranting: :ranting: :ranting:
my trial for the gd-rom driver is based on original WINCE & KATANA device driver identification,adaptation and modifications.... :corpse: it's not stable as it s a first try and i don't even know if it'll be usefull in chanka(would be great!!! :saint: )but it's just a good try
i'll tell U when it's over..... arty: :luck: :cheers: :sorcerer: :holiday:

 

[PsyMan]

When saying driver you mean the drive's firmware, right?

 

[GD666]

When saying driver you mean the drive's firmware, right?

wking on a driver :huh:
the firmware has already been done and is quite ok :happy:
are u interested in it? :santa:

 

[PsyMan]

Not really just wanted to know.

 

[StuMcBill]

you mean there is hacked DVD-ROM firmware that will allow you to read GD-ROMS already?!?

Are you having a girraffe?

 

[GD666]

you mean there is hacked DVD-ROM firmware that will allow you to read GD-ROMS already?!?

Are you having a girraffe?

It ain't a dvd rom drive it's an old caddy scsi external drive...
seems to have strange properties.... :huh:

BY the way what do U mean by "having a girraffe"? :smurf:

 

[StuMcBill]

It ain't a dvd rom drive it's an old caddy scsi external drive...
seems to have strange properties.... :huh:

BY the way what do U mean by "having a girraffe"? :smurf:

Its rhyming slang for "Having a laugh" arty:

 

[Ennok]

After reading your post I did a little investigating, I wanted to know exactly how a gdrom works. well this website is very descriptive about the cd controller inside the DC, http://mozcom.com/~sknkwrks/gdcontroller.html

It gives a very interesting prespective on the gd-rom, a decelerated cd-rom!! The data is packed more so that the cd-rom actually reads it at half the speed to achieve the same results as a CD according to that site.

Maybe this will help you .. maybe not, but slowing down the read speed on your scsi drive will help with stability and readability since things are packed more.. but I realy can't see you starting off a device driver creation having your drive read more than 1x .. but who knows .. maybe this'll give you some kind of idea that'll help.

Keep it up, 99.9% of us probably won't be able to use this in any way, but who cares about that.. the day you can read a full gd-rom or heck .. even partially enough to start up a game in chanka I'll be the first to tip my hat :bouncy: , it's always a good day when someone does something that everyone else thought impossible!!

Ennok

 

[GD666]

first Thank U very much for supporting me...

then i'd like to tell i've also been spending much time on investigation and I know what UR talking about my goal is not yet to read a gd-rom to play it now but to copy it full and then see how i could convert it to work fine on a virtual cd drive first :happy:
after that I should dev a compatible device driver and realease a universal firmware to allow the reading of a gd-rom on mister everybody's cdrom drive arty: :saint:

 

[GD666]

if anybody has any idea or info
i' ll be glad to recieve it :bouncy:
and i m also looking for that shit:Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit 2.1 for Dreamcast
I know it exists if anyone has it take contact and help please

 

[GD666]

BACK after improvements....
I finally found out how and when WINCE calls its processes and how it works on Dreamcast.
FUN