Is this possible and or frowned upon.

My problem is I like to play older games on my netbook my lil hp110. Alas it does not have a built in cd-rom.
I dont like taking my ext disk drive all over the place. is there a way to do this?

I can foresee a scolding about hacks, pirates etc... But be assured I am too ignorant to know where to even find these files.

I can on the other hand copy my hard copies of the games i have to my computer and put them on a thumb drive. but my computer still wants the file in a cd-rom. I would just love to play them without beeing stuck to an outlet. and I bet using a ram style solid state memory would make it run fast. Like old cart games. THAT would be awesome.

Any help is appreciated.