Gamedrive 9.0 review:1 stars (Blank CD and No Support) - I ordered this item a month or so ago and I still have not gotten it working. I am not inept at installing and configuring software, so I am at a loss why. It is not as if Farstone has been responsive. Have they dropped into a black hole?

To begin, I received the CD from Amazon blank. A sealed retail package with a nicely printed CD with zero content. I decided to contact Farstone instead of going through the return/exchange process. I opened two tickets using an unregistered login. I have had no response from Farstone. It has been several weeks.

I decided today to download the program from Farstone and use the serial number that came with my blank retail copy. It installed ok as far as I can tell. I can create images and I can assign them to virtual drives. However, the two boxed games I planned on running with the virtual drives are Leisure Suit Larry (uncut) and Myst 10th Anniversery edition on DVD.

LSL installs well from a virtual drive, yet when I run the game, the copy protection kicks in. Farstone has listed LSL as a recently copiable software. I assumed the download would be up-to-date, but I assumed wrong. Live Update is available but has been down since 10 Feb, which was 17 days ago. So I cannot play LSL off a virtual drive.

Myst and Riven I have just imaged. Everything appears fine. Unfortunately whenever I try to insert the images onto a virtual drive, I get an error. (An error with no helpful feedback, just a number.) Did not the specs report suppot for DVD? Well in my case, it appears not.

I tried to open a new ticket with Farstone, but that service appears down as well. I keep getting linked back to the support page without ever opening a ticket. Now that I have a registered login, I expected to get a better reponse. Nope. Cannot even contact them to get that support.

In conclusion, every review I read appears to laud this software and its siblings, but I am left hanging. No one is helping me and I am well beyond frustrated. Thus this review. If Farstone cannot get their stuff straight for me, I see no reason to give them my support.

Hope it helps.
Gamedrive 9.0 Features:
Computer software (programs)
Utilities
Back up (Backup Backing)
CD

Gamedrive 9.0 is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around  29.99USD.