Sim City 4 - How to Install on a Laptop without a DVD/CD player

[PaddyAdshead]

Hi guys,

Newbie here and I hope I have posted in the right area.. My question:

I have just bought a new Windows Laptop without a CD/DVD player loaded with Windows 10. ( Having no CD/DVD on new laptops is a backward step, but who am I to say... Oh almighty Internet ) :eek:

I want to install (legitimate) copies of "Sim City 4", then "Sim City 4 Rush Hour" onto my new laptop. I have been addicted to this game for years.. (there is no solution to this addiction... Sim City 13 just doesn't feed the addiction)

I know you require the "Expansion Pack" CD in a drive once installed to run the program and I am writing to ask if anyone knows how to install the game on my new laptop without a CD Player and run the game without a CD Player?

The shakes have begun and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Peter A

[Joe Forster/STA]

Try a CD/DVD emulator: there's Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.cc) (Lite, for free) but, for simple (non-copy protected) ones, I use Virtual CloneDrive (http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html) (free) instead. On a PC with a CD/DVD drive, create images (ISO's) of the discs, e.g. with ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com) and then you can mount those images into the emulator, making the OS see them as if they were actual discs in a CD/DVD drive. If the CD/DVD is copy protected (original games usually are ;)) then use a crack (on GameCopyWorld) to make the game run without the original disc (let alone without a CD/DVD drive).

And some agitprop: with everything getting virtualized, copy protection of physical media is the past.

[pakrat2k2]

And you could always go buy an external USB dvdplayer. That way you can install from all your original dvds, anytime you want too.