Best way to make disk images for game disks?

I want to play my beloved Battlefield 1942 on my Air... and I realized that I need the disk! ...Is there a way to turn the game disk into an image and "launch" it so the program thinks it's in the diskdrive, etc?
I looked in DiskUtility, and I was a bit unsure what kind of image to make it.
tia,
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1. Insert the DVD/CD;
2. Open Disk Utility, and select the DVD/CD from the left side list (select the DVD/CD icon on top);
3. from the DU File menu select New | Disk Image from Disk 1;
4. Choose to format the disk image as DVD/CD Master, name the disk image and click Save;
5. When the .cdr file is finished select it with mouse and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info and check the box to lock the file;
6. Choose the .cdr file from the left side list, click Burn, and insert a new, blank DVD or CD.
You can skip the last step if you don't want to burn the image to a CD or DVD. There is no guarantee this will work since many games will only work with a CD or DVD rather than a mounted image of one.

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