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Posted July 30, 2012
For the LBA archeologists around, here is the last version of the LBAWIn project in the webarchive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090221183736/http://lbawin.akoonet.com/
Post edited July 30, 2012 by shaddim
Posted November 08, 2012
Maybe I'm just being dim, but where do you get these lba.gog and .dat files, all I get is a exe?
Posted November 16, 2012
SnoozeFe: You need to install the game first!
Posted March 05, 2017
How can you mount the DAT file for the music? I can't figure it out even with Google. Thanks!
Posted March 07, 2017
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TabaquiX: How can you mount the DAT file for the music? I can't figure it out even with Google. Thanks!
It's a CD-ROM image, so you need some Virtual CD-ROM Drive software.

There are many options. Here's one from Microsoft, which I guess will work as well as any other for this purpose:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38780
Posted March 07, 2017
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TabaquiX: How can you mount the DAT file for the music? I can't figure it out even with Google. Thanks!
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Shadowcat: It's a CD-ROM image, so you need some Virtual CD-ROM Drive software.

There are many options. Here's one from Microsoft, which I guess will work as well as any other for this purpose:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38780
Thanks, but I can't even get it working, and it says it's only for ISO files. I'm on Windows 10. I can mount the renamed .GOG ISO image fine already, but I can't figure out how to mount the DAT file that's apparently needed for the CD audio music.
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Posted March 08, 2017
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TabaquiX: Thanks, but I can't even get it working, and it says it's only for ISO files. I'm on Windows 10. I can mount the renamed .GOG ISO image fine already, but I can't figure out how to mount the DAT file that's apparently needed for the CD audio music.
I can't test it because I no longer use Windows, but my recollection is that the DAT file is an ISO file. If there's no way to tell the software to mount any arbitrary file, just copy or rename the file so it has an .iso extension. (Alternatively, find different virtual CD-ROM software which doesn't have that limitation.)
Posted March 08, 2017
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TabaquiX: Thanks, but I can't even get it working, and it says it's only for ISO files. I'm on Windows 10. I can mount the renamed .GOG ISO image fine already, but I can't figure out how to mount the DAT file that's apparently needed for the CD audio music.
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Shadowcat: I can't test it because I no longer use Windows, but my recollection is that the DAT file is an ISO file. If there's no way to tell the software to mount any arbitrary file, just copy or rename the file so it has an .iso extension. (Alternatively, find different virtual CD-ROM software which doesn't have that limitation.)
The LBA.GOG file is the renamed iso file, which I can mount fine.
LBA.DAT is a file less than one kilobyte in size which stores the track info in text format:

FILE "LBA.GOG" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 10:47:52

etc...
Posted March 08, 2017
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TabaquiX: LBA.DAT is a file less than one kilobyte in size which stores the track info in text format:
Ah yes, I remember now. Sorry for the confusion. So that's a CUE file: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_%28computing%29

You need a Virtual CD-ROM application which can either mount that directly, or can associate it with the ISO file some other way.
Posted March 28, 2021
If folks are looking for another way to play LBA it is in the process of being added to ScummVM. Its not ready for prime time yet given my quick looking over but the dev version of ScummVM now has LBA support if you feel like bug testing etc.

https://forum.magicball.net/showthread.php?t=18491&s=d05f15d28e7f54d9ab52ee7e4a9d4f96
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