Playing Roller Coaster Tycoon on a netbook

[Retro6]

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?

 

[Retro6]

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.

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.