That is a pity and a bizarre answer. They have movies and visual novels and all sorts of things that aren't strictly games.

Yeah you' re right, I didn't even think of those at that moment. Makes it even more... disappointing.

"I find their lack of faith disturbing."

Well...
that's king of the point. Abandonware is software no rights owner cares about. So it doesn't exist in a legal sense, but it exists because legal entities choose to neglect it. It's like some stuff which ends up in a museum: There might be legal successor or heirs, but they simply don't care about claiming their property rights. Legal limbo.

Despite a piece of software is not sold anywhere the owners of it might not have forgotten it. As many old games have proven time and time again, they just might be in a situation, where several different owners can't get into an agreement of how any possible profits should be shared or if it even is financially viable to release it at the time. The fact that the customers are not aware of what is happening between different parties is not evidence of the owners not being interested or are neglecting it.

That said, some devs do let the IP lapse, but even that does not mean they don't care. In a sense, abandonware is kinda like any abandoned thing in the world. If you find an abandoned car from the road, that doesn't mean you can take it, You just have to inform the right channels of the existence of that car who then collect it and get rid of it or sell it forward if no owners are found, And that is the reason what comes to intellectual property we have the concept of public domain,

Potentially would work using an older windows OS (guest) using VirtualBox or similar virtual machine. I've got the CD myself (part of the old Star Wars collection along with Dark Forces, Rebel Assault 1 & 2, and TIE Fighter), but haven't touched it for many years.

OK, I'll try that during the weekend. Let's keep our fingers crossed ;-)

If you're using Windows 7, there's a fan-made patch to get the title running and also allows you to run entirely off the hard disk (copying both CDs to disk):
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1108691#p1108691

I can't verify whether it runs in Windows 10, but I'm using this on my own Windows 7 system and it works great. Two key things to keep in mind, though:

1. You MUST to press "X" to exit from the RUNME batch file, or else the CD folders will be mixed up next time you run. (You'll have to manually rename the folders back to CD1 and CD2).

2. Do NOT try swapping CDs while the title is running (the CD folders will be in-use, so they can't be renamed). If you want to view something on the other CD than you initially selected, you'll need to exit the title, then use the RUNME batch file to switch.

I've also viewed the registry and batch files to confirm there's nothing malicious about them, and ran the executables through several virus scanners without incident.

@Ryan333 Thanks, I'll just try it on my Windows 10 system tomorrow and see if can persuade it to work.

Didn't they start a movie section on the site, I think it might list categories. Of course maybe that isn't what they think the movie fits in with the theme of that group.

Yes they do; they even sell Visual Novels. But "Star Wars Behind the Magic" is an interactive encyclopedia about the making of the classic star wars movies, it's not a movie itself.

OK, so I tried working it the way said on the page Ryan333 linked.

It didn't work... Here's my guess why: The author doesn't say anything about actually installing the game like you did on, say, Win 98, using the launcher.

He just says to copy the discs to the harddrive, run the registry installer and then run the runme.bat. He shows a screenshot where the the launcher say "Run Star Wars Behind the Magic". Here's the thing: My launcher still says "Install Star Wars Behind the Magic" which doesn't work, my Win 7 being a 64 bit version.

So, sadly, I still couldn't get it to work. Am I overlooking something here?