I just have a demo of Pandemonium 2 and it works with another Glide wrapper called dgvoodoo. I had trouble installing this demo similar to yours (name is not valid or too long, Pandemonium 2 cannot run without a valid resource.cnf file), but there is a file setup.cnf in demo, here is what it contains:

;
; File copy lists for Pandemonium DEMO CD. The format is:
; dest = source
;
; First we have the software-only setup:
;

;
; Now we have the 3DFX setup:
;
[Full3]
pandy.exe = p2play.exe
wjesters.pkg = sjesters.pkg
resource.cnf = demo.cnf
pandemonium.bat = pandy3.bat
music = music

I simply replaced names of files from installation pack with those above and then demo worked! Maybe it will be helpfull for you?

Thanks Zebius,

I found the setup.cnf, it contains

;
; File copy lists for Pandemonium 2 CD. The format is:
; dest = source
;
;

;
; Now we have the copy-everthing setup:
;
[Full3]
pandy.exe = p2play.exe
wjesters.pkg = wjesters.pkg
resource.cnf = game.cnf
dsetup.dll = dsetup.dll
dsetup16.dll = dsetup32.dll
dsetup16.dll = dsetup32.dll
setup.exe = setup.exe

[Compact3]
pandy.exe = p2play.exe
sjesters.pkg = sjesters.pkg
resource.cnf = compact.cnf
dsetup.dll = dsetup.dll
dsetup16.dll = dsetup32.dll
dsetup16.dll = dsetup32.dll
setup.exe = setup.exe

The Full3 and Compact3 are the 2 options which seem to be given in the setup screen whether to install the full version or the compact version (I assume it still runs thing off the cd)

I renamed the files as you suggested, ie: p2play renamed to pandy.exe. When running Pandemonium, at the start up an error message now pops up saying "The Pandemonium CD must be in the CD-ROM drive before you can play". The error message occurs for bothe the Full3 and Compact3 options.

game.cnf contains
"WJESTERS.PKG 1 0 99 0 0 0"
, and I rename the file to resource.cnf

compact.cnf contains
"SJESTERS.PKG 1 0 0 0 0 0
WJESTERS.PKG 1 0 98 0 0 1"
I rename compact.cnf to resource.cnf

Both of these options gives the same error message as before. What does your demo.cnf contain, perhaps I can try using your demo.cnf as a replacement for my resource.cnf? Is there any way to get Pandemonium to not look for the CD? I tried with the CD in, but the error still occured (I have copied the CD to disk and was doing the renaming there). I thought that it could not be finding the CD, because my hard-drive is partitioned into multiple drives and my CD drive letter is H:. But that would be really odd behaviour.

Peter

My demo.cnf is the same as your game.cnf file:
WJESTERS.PKG 1 0 99 0 0 0

So it seems that problem is in CD detection.
Do you have one or more CD-drives? (try the other one if you do)
Try compatibility modes or switch off compatibility mode. Any difference?
Check if you have message.log file in Pandemonium directory. Any useful info there?

I have no more ideas, since I don't have full CD version I can't try it by myself.

EDIT: if nothing works maybe try to find no-CD patch.

Zebius, apologies for taking so long to give some more feedback.

I tried different compatibilities but nothing worked. I managed to get the game working on my Windows box at home. I think it is a 95, could be 98 though. The problem that I had there was that it was as if autofire on a joystick was on. It skipped through the intros and got to the menu screen There it just scrolled down through the menus and would go into one of them occasionally. I managed to get it to the new game option and start a game, but the autofire problem still persists. I installed it on another win 95 or 98 (don't know) box, but there the game does not start. I installed on another Win XP box, where the game somehow got to the menu the very first time - I was a bit silly though, it was taking too long so I killed the process, and then as it was getting to the menu, the exe was killed. After that I was getting the no-cd error still. I will try and find a patch for the no-cd error and let you know.

Peter