Short (OK long) preamble:
As you can see I joined this place back in 2003.
At the time I was a system admin, building networks and running LAN parties. I started building all my PC from 1992 onwards. Apart from programming there really wasn't much I hadn't dabbled in (I was a forum mod for 3dfx's official forum and a beta tester before they went poof).

A few years later kids started appearing around the house and I literally mothballed absolutely everything and also started down a totally different career path.

When my son wanted a PC in 2020 I gave up trying to to figure it out and paid someone to build it. Maybe I am old or I have been hit in the head too much (I did some amateur go kart racing and have the record of destroying the most go karts) but I simply could not figure it out. I am completely aware that things have changed in over 20 years...

I only point this out because what I am about to ask is probably very very simple and for many here an eye-rolling "how stupid can he be?" situation so I beg for mercy...

I bought this game as a "Sold Out" edition, i.e, 2 CDs because I still am nostalgic for physical media (I have a record player, 2 cassette players, 3 VCRS [PAL and NTSC] as well as a few DVD and Blu-Ray players...).

I would prefer the games run "as intended" from the built in CD/DVD drive in the laptop but if making an ISO makes things easier I would but I have no idea how.

What I have done:
Scoured the internet for a how-to guide
Searched here and elsewhere about this game in general.

Frankly nothing seemed to fit my situation so I simply tried installing it and it brings up the error "The installation requires Windows NT4 Service Pack 3 or higher".

I am guessing it is a compatibility

My free time is severely limited so spending hours trying settings and messing around with programs that may or may not help is only mildly appealing to me. Probably because I am just old and in my mind it must be simpler than this. Recently I simply wanted to extract a few scenes from a commercial DVD that I happen to know the author/director/producer of and he insisted it was ok and that there was no copy protection on it (I was promoting his work at a classic car event) and I could NOT get ANYTHING to work... something that 20 years ago on my Athlon would have taken maybe 2-3 hours I spent days on and I just gave up...

The computer is a laptop with Windows 10 home on it. It is the "family" laptop so madding the registry so that other things break is really not an option... also a reason for me not being too excited about modding the OS...

My hope is to learn how modern OSes work with these CD-based games so I can get them to work on this laptop and make it look like I am doing work... 😀

Thanks muchly in advance!