There are programs available like FakeCD that fake the program into
thinking it is running off a CD Rom drive.

You could also try the SUBST command.  The SUBST command is very similiar
to a mapping command.  It will substitute a drive letter for a directory on
your PC

For example SUBST f: c:\freddifish
would make a Drive F: that would actually be c:\freddifish

I tried this in a library as well when I was doing some freelance work a
while back.  I seem to remember Freddi Fish being a problem as well as a
slew of Broderbund games.  They were running them from a CD tower and
running out of drive letters.  I seem to remember something about the
programs not working unless the media name was the same.  If so you may be
Out of luck.

As far as a list, I would have no idea though you might want to check the
LIBNT list (Library installations of Windows NT)

Any more questions, please e-mail

>I would like to load our CD-ROM games completely onto the hard drive and
>run them from there so that we don't have to keep swaping out the CD
>Some software is quite happy to do this. e.g. Sim Town, Hoyle's Board
>Games
>But some is not. e.g. Freddi Fish from Humongous Software.
>
>So to cut to the chase.
>1. Does anyone have an ideas about ways to trick the CD-ROM into
>thinking it's really running from the disk?

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