Quote Originally Posted by gbpxl View Post
oh yeah I have a Windows 98 desktop now. Best $50 I ever spent.
You've joined a mighty happy family, son!

That said even on actual Windows 98, I often rip ISOs (I usually just use old versions of Nero) and mount the discs with, say, an old version of Daemontools (you might prefer something else though--do research, as ONE, only older DTools will work on Win98 anyway and TWO, at some point the program started incorporating adware... though I think that was around the WinXP era).

For a long time one of my personal headaches was if the game had audio music tracks, how do I rip a disc of that AND play it from a digital image AND still have the CD-ROM music? But recently I cracked even that nut.

The only nut I haven't cracked is I have two specific games--Need for Speed: High Stakes and Risk II--that seem to always know if there's not an actual CD in the drive. I've never found a way around this, nor have I found a no-CD crack for either game (and honestly, googling Risk II is a pain in the ass as I usually get the actual board game or tons of just unrelated junk).