There's no problem in my giving you the program openly over here
--although I couldn't link you to a website that had other pirated software as well. But the problem is that noCDing a game is not an exact science. Sometimes it's just as easy as copying the contents of the CD to the hard drive, and pointing the game to the new location if this is configurable by editing a text cfg file, or using the
subst command to fake a CD there (worth a try!). In other cases, specially when the game has anti-piracy detection to make sure you do have the CD, programs such as FakeCD could help; but I don't know if that works even half of the times, because at the time these detection features tended to be different for each game or publisher. So in other cases you need specific cracks for each game. And also when you look for this kind of third party programs, it's possible to get a trojan; I'm not usually very worried about viruses within DOSBox (specially in Windows x64 where I can't run the same program natively even by accident), but in a Windows 98 machine you could get it infected whole.
I'm attaching FakeCD 1.3a (readme included) to this post, in case you want to give it a try, because as I said I can't point you to where I got it from (lol). But I would try first copying the CD to the hard drive. At any rate use it at your own risk!! Here is a report from 46 antivirus programs that say it's clean, but I am not giving you my word on it!
https://www.virustotal.com/file/83d5...is/1358597748/
EDIT: What's the difference between the CD and floppy versions? Which is the one for download at
http://www.elderscrolls.com/arena/?