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Is it possible to make a dedicated game server?

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bupkus

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Is it possible to make a dedicated game server?

Ideally, I'd like to dedicate a tower with 5 cd-drives each with a different game. Then I'd like to connect it to a LAN where anyone and only one(?) can play a game and not have access to either the CDs or the trays. You may have guessed, it's for kids.

I've posted this question here a few times over the past year, each time without a workable answer. I'll probably have to do like I've done in the past... just stick a cd drive in each pc and install game demos on the hdd. Anyway, it's better than what they've got at home. Too bad, the budget is there for a better solution, but giving kids expensive CDs that they can break, scratch or take home with them is not in the budget.
 
It's not going to help you DO it, but you could try ripping the CD's to the hard drive and then mounting them virtually, that way you wouldn't need 5 CD drives. You could just have the CD's on the hard drive. Something like Alcohol 120% would let you do this and moutnt the CD's to make it easier for you to manage the system.
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
It's not going to help you DO it, but you could try ripping the CD's to the hard drive and then mounting them virtually, that way you wouldn't need 5 CD drives. You could just have the CD's on the hard drive. Something like Alcohol 120% would let you do this and moutnt the CD's to make it easier for you to manage the system.
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Thanks, that's the best answer I've had in over a year on this question.
 
Daemon Tools is another good program for mounting CD images. Only downside is that you'll need a large hard drive if you're installing a lot of games. I forget how many images you can mount at once.
 
I never understand why people used third party software to "trick" a comp into thinking the CDs are in a drive.. why not just use subst at the commands prompt? (Providing you're running a Windows machine) or just simply copy the CDs to the drive and use the mount command on a Linux box..
 
scince subst does not emulate protections such as laserdisc and safedisc etc, you dont have a 1:1 copy of the CD, you have the data that's on it, CD copy protection schemes will not work under those circumstances.
 
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