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1. #Generic cd rom driver ms dos 6.22 download drivers#
2. #Generic cd rom driver ms dos 6.22 download driver#

#Generic cd rom driver ms dos 6.22 download drivers#

The IDE ATAPI standard any devices you can access use is probably a later revision of the standard anyway, so you're already breaking the historical continuity by using a drive that isn't from that time period.Īlso testing was and is never really done only with drivers strictly from the same time period as the OS, especially as drivers only tend to come out when the OS version hits RTM, until then only older drivers exist, which are therefore then used with that OS. Now maybe there exist early versions of OAKCDROM.SYS from 1993 or 1994, you should search for those.īut really, I don't think it matters when the drivers are from. So IDE CD-ROM drivers from the period must be few, in-between, and mutually incompatible, and probably incompatible with any CD-ROM drive you might have access to these days. WinPC: Remember most CD-ROM drives in 19 were SCSI, not IDE, IDE ones were only just appearing. You all may think that I am rather silly for being such a purist, but obviously I'm such a hardcore when it comes to these things, and probably rightfully so, since we're trying to keep it all as accurate to the time period as possible.

#Generic cd rom driver ms dos 6.22 download driver#

Sure, you can technically use the 1996 driver without any issues, but an actual Microsoft tester wouldn't have been called to use a driver from 1996 to test something during 1993, so I'm specifically looking for these drivers so as not to break the historical continuity of it all. Well, the reason why I am requesting this, is because I am looking specifically for drivers from the same time period as the Windows Chicago beta test period (for all intents and purposes Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and the releases of Windows Chicago that we have collected here). Some of you may be wondering why I am even requesting this at all, when the 1996 OAK Technologies driver is already available, and I can see why. Finally, they are from 1993-1994 (but still from 1993 if possible), for reasons explained below.

They will work properly as a replacement for the OAK Technologies driver.

They are not specific to one sound board (meaning that they will work in emulators such as Virtual PC, QEMU, QEMU Manager, Bochs, and DOSBox otherwise it would just defeat the purpose). They are at least available for MS-DOS, but preferably also Windows NT and OS/2 if possible. Normally, I don't make these types of requests, however, I am making an exception here, and for a very good reason.ĭoes anyone here know of any IDE CD-ROM drivers from around 1993 (1994 at the absolute latest, but preferably from 1993)? Provided, of course, that they meet the same criteria: