How I got chankast running games in win2k

[fatalM4]

Hi, I sort of found a solution to make games play in win2k. All the images i have, when burned onto CD will work in my dreamcast, but neither the burnt CD or mounted to a virtual drive will work in chankast. One time i got a burnt CD in my cd-writer drive to run in chankast.. then it suddenly stopped working. Later I realized that it worked simply because CDRWIN was running(I had just finished burning the image) and had loaded its drivers for the cd-writer, this helped chankast to read it correctly.

So now i can make any of my self-bootable burned CDs run in chankast like this:
1. insert cd
2. run cdrwin (leave it open)
3. run chankast

This only works in my cd-r drive consistently.. the first time, it worked in my dvd-rom drive as well. Unfortunately, it absolutely will not work on virtual drives, maybe because they load their own drivers before cdrwin

I'm interested in knowing the difference between cd access in 2k and xp and why 2k doesn't work, if anybody knows..

Hope this helped

 

[tygra]

hi fatalM4,

wow, how i forgot cdrwin load its aspi drivers,
your are right, leaving cdrwin in bk does solve the win2k problem.
cheers mate L(

 

[tygra]

those who doubt the trick shown above, heres a pic

getting extra boost for chanka:
1. turn off 'Show Stats'
2. play with the priority for the chankast process using the task manager, but don't set it too high, else it will crash.