Playing Roller Coaster Tycoon on a netbook

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I was watching a random video about old netbooks on youtube and they were playing roller coaster tycoon with no CD drive on an old netbook with Windows 7?

I have the actual game on CD I bought from CeX ages ago and I would like to play this on my old netbook but it has no optical drive.

I know that simply saving the contents of the Roller Coaster Tycoon game onto a USB drive wont really work because the game requires you to have the CD in the drive after installation in order to play the game?
 
Create a .ISO of the cd, copy this to netbook, mount it in windows (I think 7 had this built in by then, but otherwise you'll need a third party tool for virtual dvd drive).

Or it might be possible to simply turn off the music, starcraft 1 only requested the CD if you had music turned on so pressing ctrl m during the initial load turned it off and stopped it asking for it.

Or Google how to play a game with nocd.
 
I had one of the original (well technically second gen?) Intel Atom netbooks at Uni and downgraded it to XP and put quite a few ISOs on it like Half Life 1, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed, The Sims 1...

However today I think getting old games on GOG is probably the easiest way of playing RTC without a disk drive
 
If it was RCT2 instead of RCT1 then I'm willing to bet that the game would run without a CD if you can somehow install it either from an ISO or from a borrowed USB CD, then install the free mod OpenRCT2. I don't believe OpenRCT2 expects you to keep the CD in as when you install the mod it just verifies you own the game from the actual install directory and uses its own exe. You can also optionally include the RCT1 scenarios if you own both games. I would hunt down a copy of RCT2 just so you can use OpenRCT2 as it a very good.
 
almoststew1990 said:
However today I think getting old games on GOG is probably the easiest way of playing RTC without a disk drive
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This is probably the easiest option although I remember having to amend the .ini file of Beachlife years ago to get it to play without looking for the CD, was simple enough but have no idea if this would be possible with RC
 
Bubo said:
If it was RCT2 instead of RCT1 then I'm willing to bet that the game would run without a CD if you can somehow install it either from an ISO or from a borrowed USB CD, then install the free mod OpenRCT2. I don't believe OpenRCT2 expects you to keep the CD in as when you install the mod it just verifies you own the game from the actual install directory and uses its own exe. You can also optionally include the RCT1 scenarios if you own both games. I would hunt down a copy of RCT2 just so you can use OpenRCT2 as it a very good.
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I have both RCT1 & RCT2 they both ask for the CD.

I downloaded Magicdisk I haven't tested it out yet but I'll try it out later when I get a bit more time.
 
If you have RCT2 and the OS on the netbook is compatible with OpenRCT2, and you can use whatever method to get RCT2 installed, then as above I recon OpenRCT2 won't ask for a CD, it never does with my install.
 
GOG is the easiest way:

www.gog.com

RollerCoaster Tycoon® Deluxe

Take a trip to fame and fortune by building the biggest, best, scariest, and most thrilli
www.gog.com www.gog.com

Other ways will be against forum rules to link to

You might possibly install openRCT2 using your cd on another machine and drag the files over but not sure if that would work...
 
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