I was looking at them CD's again and found that most of it was media. (on RA1 anyways) but then i got to thinkin again... why does RA1 take up so much i mean the quality on those graphics arn't that great, i guess it could be that different resolution size heh i guesss somethings are to remain a mystery...
It doesn't take up all the space on the CD...the CD just doesn't contain any records for available free space.
CDs contain file allocation tables...sort of a directory of where things are on the CD...a burnable CD-ROM will contain records pointing out the unused space (even if they can't be used anymore)...a pressed CD (like a music or game CD) doesn't have this as such records are left off the master during the duplicateing process...as there are no records of free unused space, the CD-ROM reports that the CD is completely full...