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USBODE: An ODE for DOS and Newer PC’s
🕹️ USBODE: Bring CD Games to Old PCs (Without a CD Drive!) 🕹️
Want to play classic DOS games that need a CD-ROM, but your retro PC doesn’t have a CD-ROM drive? USBODE is a cool new project that lets you use CD images (ISO/BIN/CUE) on an SD card to emulate a CD-ROM drive via a Raspberry Pi Zero W!
Here’s the breakdown:
- What it does: Turns a Raspberry Pi Zero W into a CD-ROM emulator that connects to your PC via USB.
- How it works: You load CD images onto an SD card, plug the Pi into your computer, and it appears as a CD-ROM drive.
- Setup: Requires installing software on an SD card, configuring Wi-Fi, and loading your CD images. A test build is available on the project’s Discord server.
- Features:
- Works with DOS, Windows, and even modern OSes.
- Optional Pi Hats add on-device controls and even CD Audio playback in DOS!
- Best For: DOS & Windows 3.1 – perfect for bringing CD-based games to older machines without needing physical drives.
- Limitations: Doesn’t work with multi-file BINs (requires merging), some copy protection may not work, and it’s still under development!
Want to learn more?
- GitHub: https://github.com/danifunker/usbode-circle
- Discord: https://discord.gg/pvbyq8xc