Battlefield 1942 on Netbook with no CD Drive

[Ban Bot]

I used to play a lot of Battlefield 1942 and the mod Dessert Combat "back in the day." All my friends, even my wife, would play. Good times!

I have wanted to load it up again on some of my older netbooks. I have all the disks and keys but the problem is they lack CD drives. My challenge is two fold. The first is a no CD patch (have never downloaded such, weary of malware/viruses) and the second is getting the files over (no external drive). It sounds like a possible solution is installing on a system and patched with no CD, starting to ensure running, and then copying over the entire file structure to the new system?

Not sure if there is a better, simpler, way. Ironically, Origin had it for Free in 2012 until last spring but as Gamespy died they yanked it. Which is too bad as the community immediately created their own master server AND a number of tools like Gameranger work (we use it for X-wing Alliance and MechWarrior 4).

 

[pontifex]

is there a computer with a cd drive on the same network? If so, copy the contents of the cd to the netbook or make an iso of the cd and copy it to the netbook. otherwise use a usb flash drive or depending on size, use a cloud storage site.

Will it even run on a netbook though?


oh and "dessert" combat? is that where you through pies, cakes, and donuts at each other?

 

[maevinj]

What about getting a usb-sata adapter and then getting a cheap internal cd-rom drive?

 

[poofyhairguy]

Rip it to an ISO and then mount that ISO with Virtual CloneDrive when you want to play the game.

 

[waffleironhead]

You could use an imaging and virtual drive tool like daemon tools to create and mount ISO's on the netbook.

 

[VashHT]

I used to play a lot of Battlefield 1942 and the mod Dessert Combat "back in the day." All my friends, even my wife, would play. Good times!

I have wanted to load it up again on some of my older netbooks. I have all the disks and keys but the problem is they lack CD drives. My challenge is two fold. The first is a no CD patch (have never downloaded such, weary of malware/viruses) and the second is getting the files over (no external drive). It sounds like a possible solution is installing on a system and patched with no CD, starting to ensure running, and then copying over the entire file structure to the new system?

Not sure if there is a better, simpler, way. Ironically, Origin had it for Free in 2012 until last spring but as Gamespy died they yanked it. Which is too bad as the community immediately created their own master server AND a number of tools like Gameranger work (we use it for X-wing Alliance and MechWarrior 4).

I don't think they pulled it off of origin, I was playing it about a month ago with my friend, we just had to update the server info to get it going.