[bsimpson]

I have original copies of a lot of these on CD, but even if it was easy to read CDs in 2025, that doesn't mean they're still in readable condition.

A lot of abandonware games have ISOs posted on the Internet Archive. There's a glimmer of worry in the back of my head about the safety of downloading random executables, but it seems like they're usually the real deal.

[MacSourcePorts]

In a lot of cases the easiest way is going to be to get the game from GOG and use my Extractor utility to get the data from the Windows installer

https://www.macsourceports.com/utility/extractor

Extractor is just a GUI-based version of innoextract, so if you prefer the command line you can use that.

[p0w3n3d]

The executables are built from source if you use the OpenSource ports

[bsimpson]

That's a good point. I was thinking more generally about downloading binaries from unofficial sources.