Back when CD-ROM was a main thing, I remember that sometimes on games you could insert the CD, launch the game, and then remove the CD, the game would still run (I believe that was the case for Age of Empires 2 for example).
How was this possible?
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A few others here mention copying from CD to the hard drive, there was another way:
On the PlayStation 1, some games would continue to play after opening the disc tray… yet the PS1 didn’t have a hard drive.
Most game levels could load into RAM. A whopping 2MB main, 1MB for video, and 512KB for audio I believe.
Some games would use the disc to playback music during the game. If you put a PlayStation 1 game into an audio CD player, sometimes you’d get the games music tracks, as they were standard CD audio files.
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