Alcohol 120 Full Version For Windows 7 64 Bit Free 19
Mina Spartin
Basically, I want to make it a lot easier for me to play my old CD games by making copies using Alcohol 120%. I don't want to mess around with cracks and so on and for most 90's games, Alcohol 120% works just fine. I create the CD images on Windows 98 itself using Alcohol 120% 1.9.5. For some games, this doesn't work however and takes forever to do so I'd like to create images on my Windows 10 PC and even bought an Alcohol license but the images are not compatible with 1.9.5.
Does anyone have any idea if there's a version of Alcohol that works on Windows 10 that will create CD images that work on Windows 98? I don't need CD emulation support, just the ability to rip CD images.
I know, that's the one I'm using. The problem is it won't read images made with a recent Alcohol 120%. The Alcohol forums are no help and I can't find any info anywhere about what causes this incompatibility.
Depending on the game and how it "doesn't work", you could be running into copy protection issues and, depending on what kind of protection it is, will have to tweak alcohol to account for it using the dropdown at the bottom left of the copy window (actually got my copies of Warcraft 3 + FT, as well as SimCity 3k working via images). Supposedly A120% can scan the disk and figure out what kind of protection it uses, but I've been using something else for that so IDK where that option is.
I use Daemon-tools from the same link to mount in 98, though, so no idea if it creates images that your version of A120% can work with. You'd figure things like Bin/Cue or ISO or MDF/MDS would just work. Either way, this might be the route to go when mounting on Win98 if you're going to move the disk ripping to a different machine (plus you'd probably be able to use the A120% tied to that license you just got)
I have Daemon Tools (Ultimate key) but the Windows 98 version of Daemon Tools is pretty worthless in what it can emulate. Alcohol 120% is far more powerful - so far only Star Trek The Fallen hasn't worked which is why I'd like to try with a more recent version on Windows 10. Daemon Tools was never as good as Alcohol even though it was more common - I mostly used Daemon Tools for mounting images in combination with cracks but my intent is to make CD images that are so good the copy protection doesn't know the difference.
Test 1: So the only type of image Win98 can't run from either DT or Alc is MDS/MDF, which sucks since the only things I have in that format are the games that had copy protection on 'em. ISO and BIN/CUE work fine, even when ripped using a newer version of 120%; it's just MDS/MDF files.
Test 2: Running the same versions between 98 and XP (1.9.5.3105) produces a mountable MDS/MDF pair on both OSes. Tested with Warcraft 3 with datatype set to SecuROM 4/5 as to rip the DRM with the disk, game acts just like it has physical media.
Hi I purchased Alcohol 120 because i used the trial during my windows 7 days and since you stated that product is compatible with Windows 10, I skipped the trial version. unfortunately your latest version is broken. Per your support team, i am not the only one and you don't know how to fix it. so i paid $50.00 for a lifetime upgrade for a product that doesn't work. is there a way to request a refund?
This is apparently happening on systems that had older Alcohol version installed and then applied some Windows updates. Currently we are still not able to reproduce it on our test systems and we don't know how you may fix it but from the reports of other users that experienced this I can tell you that doing a Windows reset you should fix the problem and then be able to install Alcohol. It appears to be related to the Windows Anniversary update and as mentioned above is being looked into.
We have been trying to isolate this problem and we found that most of the users experiencing have systems with NVMe storage devices as boot device. Also it apparently only happens with the latest SPTD version. One system known to be affected is Surface Pro 4, our development team will soon get one for testing and trying to fix it.
The problem seems to be Windows trying to boot into a drive other than the c: drive. It's not hard to guess that it thinks that the virtual drive of alcohol/sptd is the bootable one as this is caused by alcohol120. If someone can describe how to point c: drive as bootable using the command line of recovery I might be able to rescue without any cost
I downloaded this from Phil's site so I'd have some software that would let me both make copies of my games and burn physical CDs of some GOG games but after successfully installing the program will not launch, saying that it requires a newer version of Windows...
If the file you got from Phil is alcohol120_fe_2.0.3.9811.exe, it's for later Windows versions. The last 98SE compatible version is 1.9.5.3105, and I think it's 30-day shareware only, as their ad-sponsored "Free Edition" started later. The full license they sell now is still good for the old version, although a bit costly.
Just to add a bit of info to this in case it's useful. I tried Alcohol 120 (v1.9.5.3105 trial) on my new Windows98SE build and it offered what I needed so was about to dip my hand in my pocket to buy a license on their site, only to discover that I had already registered and bought a lifetime license. The only download however being their latest (non 9x-compatible) versions. I could not find the Retail version anywhere and was about to post to their support forum, but came across some news items online about them bringing out a free for personal use 'Retro Edition' in 2022. Sure enough it's one of the options on this page ("Retro Edition (1.9.5.3229)"), linking off to the download on FileFacts website: -soft.com/en/downloadtrial.php
appreciate the heads-up. is the "retro edition" ad-based? does the alcohol virtual drive support CD audio? also i take it win95 is out of consideration, probably too high overhead for typical hardware there anyway...
anyone ever tried to share an alcohol drive over network via iSCSI? that way you don't even have to run alcohol on the old PC, and no HDD seek times either if the image is on an SSD. though iSCSI apparently does require at least 2000 SP4.
Unfortunately I cannot. Send an email to the Alcohol folks and they may be able to set you up with a key for the older version if you don't have one.
Also in the future open your own thread for your issue.
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Using Alcohol 120% on Windows 10 64bit version 1809 with those updates mentioned earlier and I can no longer create virtual drives once again but I can confirm that the portable version works fine with creating virtual drives for now.
This appears to be related to updates installed by Microsoft in preparation for the update to Windows 10 1903, we have recently had reports from users who have no virtual drives on Windows 10 1809 our developer and Duplex Secure who make the SPTD driver are working on this.
I had problems with this starting with the 1809 update and it's continuing with the 1903 update. I tried uninstalling the program and re-installing but it hasn't fixed the problem. I can't clean install my copy of Windows 10. Until you guys get this fixed, I'm just going to have to run Virtual CloneDrive from Elaborate Bytes, at least it's free and simple to install/use. But I'd like to get full functionality of this program back.
After about two hours digging I found a somewhat simple solution to this problem, however, there is a caveat. The problem arises because Microsoft enabled something called "retpoline" by default via a recent cumulative update. Retpoline is a Spectre Variant 2 mitigation developed by Google which aims to provide Spectre V2 mitigation without performance degradation. I don't know the technical details of why this mitigation disallows installation of the AHCI virtual device driver. Here are the steps I took to get the Alcohol 120% virtual device working again on my fully updated (as of June 2019) Windows 10 v1809 system:
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