Factors to Consider When Designing for CD-ROM

Once you decide to build a CD-ROM based title, you need to consider how certain capabilities of CD-ROM affect your title's design. For example, since a CD-ROM is Read-Only, the user of a title will never be able to write anything directly to the disc. If your application requires information from the user be stored, you'll have to establish a file or files on the hard disk for this purpose.

Here are some other factors you should think about during design:

Naming and locating data files

Storage capacity

Data transfer rate

Average seek time