MagicEngine

[gamecaptor]

I just fired up MagicEngine for the first time in years.

It does not see either my physical or virtual CD-ROM drive. I see in my log that it's complaining about not being able to open ASPI.DLL. Can I use the old ForceASPI stuff in Windows 8.1?

I also tried to change the driver to SPTI in the ini file and I still had no luck.
Does anyone have the CD-ROM side of MagicEngine running on Windows 8.1?

[VIDEO INIT]
driver... DirectX
found 1 video adapter(s)
- adapter 1 has 2 device(s) and 20 video mode(s)
select adapter... 1
select device... 1
build video mode list... 20 modes
device: v0.0.0 (HAL)

[INPUT INIT]
opening direct input DLL... OK
init direct input... OK
scanning gamepad device(s)...
- no gamepad

[SOUND INIT]
scanning sound card... found 4 sound card(s)
checking sound card mixer ("DELL U3014-8 (NVIDIA High Defin" v6.3)... OK
+DIGITAL: vol = 100 [00000000/0000FFFF]
opening direct sound DLL... OK
init direct sound... OK
set cooperative level... OK
create primary buffer... OK
setup primary buffer: freq=44100 channels=2 bits=16... OK
create thread... OK

[CD-ROM INIT]
scanning drives...
+ drive E: ASUS BW-12B1ST (port=0, unit=0) [CDROM]
opening ASPI DLL... could not open the DLL!
found 1 CD-ROM drive(s)

[CDDA INIT]
creating thread... OK

[CD SCAN INIT]
creating thread... OK
scanning...
- drive E: not ready, no change

[GAMEPAD INIT]
auto calibration: -500 500

[BACKUP RAM INIT]
loading backup RAM database index file : "X:NEC Turbo Grafx-16EmulatorsMagicEnginebackup.idx"... OK
checking database... 1 bank(s) found

[PSG INIT]
allocating sound buffers(6)... OK
allocating ADPCM sound buffer... OK

[HUCARD]
create dummy rom... OK
initialize a new backup RAM bank
searching game backup RAM in database [20000003|00000000]... not found
initialize a new backup RAM bank
cdscan: start