CD compatability recommendations from Qbix himself.
 

So I spoke to one of the main developers of DOSBox today, and he said the best thing for game compatibility is always to keep the CDs themselves in a bin/cue format, and have DOSBox mount the images directly, rather than mounting an 'emulated' CD drive that has for example an MDS of a game mounted.

I just figured I'd post this here for people that do their own backups of their DOS games like myself.

So in short terms: Qbix recommends 1. making the CD copies in .bin/.cue rather than other formats

2. Mounting the CD copies directly, rather than using daemon tools to mount the copies at drive F:, then in DOSBox mounting drive F: as a CD-ROM drive "D:"

Sorry if this is the wrong part of the forum but since Qbix told me that this might fix compatibility problems with some DOS games, I figured it could be relevant to this part of the forum.

Hope someone finds some use for these tips.

Yep. This also seems to give slightly better overall speed.

Also to be said: don't use your real dos CDs but an image.
You'll avoid all those CD drive spinup/spindown times.
Modern CDdrives (contrary to the old 2x 4x drives) also have a nasty tendens to heat up.
etcetera.....

Interesting info, thnx, I was always doing it the other way around, hoping it makes no difference (turns out it does). That's because I hate typing long filenames in dosbox :P

None obliges you to use long file names when creating a CD image .....
And you always can do the imgmount with a batch file in dosbox.

And whilst we're on the subject of creating CD images, a nice and freeware soft:
http://www.imgburn.com/
Highly recommended.