I just learned something that I now love about Windows 10. Right click an .iso file and click Mount. Now it acts like you have the disc in your drive. That's it!

Well, I got Starsiege working once, but now it no longer recognizes my mouse or keyboard.

Linux has it since Gnome 2(2002).
Edit: also daemontools since around same time.

Funny stuff here in the word "mount", since this is unix-exclusive word to describe attaching of leafnode to main tree (root). One of the arguments to accuse Linux (and *BSD) in its difficulty was the tree-like structure, compared to extremely unflexible "C:"-approach. Interestingly, since around windows 2000 "c:" became just a label, with auto-generated volume key used to describe disk (what Linux has as a "block id" (blkid)).

Nevertheless, wake me up when one will be able to mount another copy of windows to the running copy of windows and switch into it as if its current (ie. chroot).

Woot? I guess my old disc of Earthsiege 2 is worthless now. ^^
It's actually the only mech-simulator that I've completely finished.

Seriously great find!
Many thanks for this information from my side.

Earthsiege 2 is graphically impressive, but I liked the story and immersion in earthsiege 1 more. Its good reason to try it :P

I just needed a fast test, without installing anything..

I still have discs for all of these. I really liked Tribes 2 back when it came out. I think I played it for awhile not too long ago. Vengeance was a little weird. They stripped what I thought was the best play mode, and added in sports arena like modes that made no sense to me.

That best play mode was Hunter BTW. I don't remember another game doing the same thing. It was fun popping someone open like a point pinata. It not being in the followup was one of the great sad moments in gaming for me.

tribes vengece was awesome, has one of the best plot with twist in gaming

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Earthsiege 2 has an installer from the Sierra Help Pages but the installer assumes you have CD audio tracks in the game, which the ISO off the site doesn't seem to have. This means you'll get errors about _inmm.dll (which is what is used to rip the audio). I'm not sure why the music tracks aren't in there.

My comment was based on an evolving history with Windows. To get the full picture:

I haven't messed with ISOs since around 2003 or so. I would have to burn a disc and then use it (I had daemontools, but probably didn't know what "mounting" was for quite some time -- I learned about it with DOSBOX in the past 5ish years.)

Back in those days, Windows was by far the better OS for me. The school I was at provided a free copy and Linux distros crashed a lot (from a research project I did my junior year, I remember finding referencing showing Linux crashing almost twice as often as Windows per hour of use -- we were selecting an OS to run an eye-controlled wheelchair app and profs strongly suggested Linux for its Real-Time-ness but the event-driven Windows 2000 was shown study after study to be more reliable (Linux people refused to believe it, but those were the studies we found -- one prof down-graded us in fact b/c he didn't believe the studies were accurate)).

I put Ubuntu on a system once way back in the day (prob 2002ish) and it never worked right and semi-permanently ate some HD space.

So I didn't get much Linux experience.

That said, Windows 10 has been the devil. And supposedly, this is the future. I can hardly play games on it anymore b/c 1/3 of the times I log on, it sucks my CPU bandwidth for an hour to download updates without my permission (and since I'm hooked up by a wire, there's no way to turn that "feature" off). I tried to make an account for my child and they CHARGE you for it! It's just 50 cents, but that's rubbish! I paid $130 for it! Cortana is crap is now turned off. The start menu occasionally glitches and I have to reboot. Also, it's a pain to get organized in any meaningful way.

It boots fast. And now it mounts isos. Those are the only redeeming factors to Windows 10. And I figure my kids will have to use it (including myself in my job) so it's a good thing to learn. But after my license runs out, I don't think I'm going back to Windows. Folks on GOG have told me Linux is radically better than it once was. It's more secure, easier to use, feature-rich, and quite handy to do pretty much anything you want (except play certain games).

So, I haven't made up my mind, but I think it's likely that I'll be making a switch in the 4 or 5 years I have left on my license -- unless Windows really turns itself around. I need an OS that lets me use my computer. And so far, Windows 10 is only restricting me from using it.

Funny, I don't have many of these issues, but I'm not sure about charging you for making accounts, you lost me here. Clarify that part more?

The same occurs with the Starsiege Sierra Help installer.

That seems to be a side-effect of their wrangling people to make Microsoft Accounts rather than local accounts to log into their local machines: you run into http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/family-safety-why-does

I'm not defending Microsoft here; I'm not familiar with how Win10 handles local versus MS accounts, but I remember how the Win8.1 update really wanted you to make a Microsoft Account ('[to use a local account] You are supposed to select "Create Account", and then on the next page, rather than actually creating account select the "Continue using existing account" link at the bottom.')