help with playing extracted .dat files please

[itirep]

I just bought a new computer. on my old machine i would extract dat files from bin using CDmage and then watch the dat on Stamp3. Now the same files won't play on my new machine. any ideas why?
old machine: gateway 500 mhz- 128 ram- xp pro- no burner or dvd
new machine: dell p42ghz-512 ram- xp home- cdrw-dvd- easy cd creator5 and power dvd.
even power dvd wont play the dat files. any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Craig Tucker]

Windows media player should be able to play vcd dat files no problem, assuming this is what they are. Have you tried renaming them to mpg and playing them.