Glad to know it all worked out

All ok now. The problem was with the version of Nero Express I had. I emailed them about it and they sent me an upgrade. I created the CD and this time it has files on it.
Haven't had time to run the game yet.

John

Check if the program you burned the CD with shows the files. If it does, it is as ardell said: the CD has to be 'closed', 'finalized' or whatever your program calls it.

I don't know anything about "closing" a CD.

When I display the CD with Explorer, there are no files shown, but right-clicking and selecting Properties then General shows 396 MB used, and Volumes shows a checkmark, no name, no size, and type "data".

I downloaded CDRDAO but it seems to be only source code, no executable.

Did you "close" the CD, ie not just the session?

Always best: ISO-9660 to standard 650mb CD-R, unless the original used Joliet or 700mb (not likely with older games).

Never good: Direct-CD, CD-RW, multiple sessions.

Edited by ardell at 17:16 on May, 27th 2005

Yes, there have been problems with this image right from the start, so it's very well possible there are still incompatibilities. I burned it with CDRDAO, and that worked fine. Does anyone else have success stories with other programs or can anyone confirm the problems with the ones mentioned above?

I downloaded and extracted this game and got a deadfellows.cue and a deadfellows.bin file.
I have Nero Express as my CD writer; it errored off when I selected the .cue file to write to CD.
I downloaded CloneCD and selected the .bin file. It wrote a CD, 415 MB, but Windows 98SE doesn't recognize any files on it. "Properties" says 415 MB used, but the files display shows nothing.

Any ideas how I can get this to work?