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anyway a lot of sites sell them (gog is the best for that kind of stuff though)
Or
homeoftheunderdogs dot net
You need Dosbox from dosbox dot com to run most of them
Amazon
maybe ebay?
Some old pc games are classed as abandonware and can be downloaded from sites like Getafix mentions earlier.
I know the old westwood command and conquer titles were released free somewhere for example though you probably already know that.
An alternative to using gog.com, or amazon might be the retro remakes scene.
There are several sites of older games "remade" for modern machines, usually windows based that were originally on spectrum, commodore, amiga, atari st, pc etc.
Although they may be older games than 2000 era, its worth a scout around with google.
Thats clearly where sites like gog come in handy because they have usually been patched to run properly without any tweaking.
You can easily track down actual original physical copies of the games which might give a wider choice, although you may well need to look up patches and maybe widescreen display tweaks which isnt really all that difficult.
Or for older game use of DOSbox for example.
So, tracking down physical copies of older games might be another option to consider besides downloading them?
For example, I still have all my old boxed PC games.
Return to castle wolfenstein was one and another was System Shock 2 which I bought on Amazon many years ago (late to the pc gaming party in 2001) to see what all the fuss was about.
This was before I had Steam, I think it was around 2004 that I did the following:
I wanted in particular to play System Shock 2 but it wouldnt play ball with my XP machine at the time.
I know of better ways now but in the end as an enthusiast at the time, I had an abundance of spare parts from old machines that I just could not bring myself to sell or junk over the years.
Motherboards, old crt, Riva TNT 2 graphics cards, I had a cupboard full of it.
You may laugh but rather than fiddle with software to get the game running, I cobbled together a very bare and perhaps dangerous naked mobo psu combo with the bare essentials.
A 20gb Hdd and a ribbon cable (pata?) hung like life support to a supporting scaffold of a few "insulating" books on an old dining chair to one side. The Nvidia TNT2 slotted in there along with the Athlon XP cpu and a hearty 512 mb ram.
Cooling was never an issue due to the erm "open architecture" of the build.
The icing on the cake was installing my old copy of WIndows 98SE.
The purpose of this abomination?
To play System Shock 2 and help ensure compatability in its own special way lol.
Ive built machines for people and myself sometimes with the purpose of playing the latest games, but on that occasion, it was built to play old skool stuff (in fact only the one game was ever installed) and it kind of went quite well with the cyberpunk theme of System Shock 2 but it was a fun project if a little extreme.
But understand, I REALLY wanted to play System Shock 2 so I built a special setup with older tech and an older OS and it was fine.
In the end it was semi upgraded and put into one of those old "cube" media chassis from the era.
Specifically, it was a "Shuttle X" chassis, quite compact and impressive for the time but was limited to a built in 200 watt psu and "upto" a Nvidia 6600 GT. Agp of course.
I wanted it to be a media centre but wasnt really clued up enough so it became my retro gaming machine with Windows 98SE and System shock, later Thief Deadly Shadows and a partition dedicated to emulators for my old consoles.
It could be a fun little project to build something like that and dedicate it to running older games.
Plus, if you install an older OS for the period of games you want (or partition accordingly) it sometimes makes it easier to just track down a physical copy of the game and run it in the hardware environment it would expect if you have the space.
https://www.gog.com/wishlist
But that particular fix was often as simple as locating the .ini settings file and manually editing a few resolution texts entries with a (suprise) basic text editor like notepad.
It would usually enable stuff even if it is not present in game menu settings.
There are walkthroughs for such things and I will point to a usefull site in a moment but many of my favorites ran on ID Tech 3 during that Activision / Raven Software era.
Same with Medal of Honour Allied Assault and the "original" Call of Duty series and the "get it working" techniques were often similar if not identical.
The common .ini commands to adjust the old IDTech 3 games to widescreen for example were usually along the lines of :
seta r_customwidth "1920"
seta r_customheight "1080"
seta r_mode "-1"
That example is for Medal of Honour Allied Assault but similar for RtcW etc as they used the same kinds of game engine.
The PCGamingWiki has got some great tips and commands on running older games on modern systems - including troubleshooting known issues.
That is besides the easy options of downloading community made patches or gog.com files etc.
Its a very interesting site but its main purpose is for getting vanilla versions of older games running.
That includes a cd or dvd retail copy as well as some versions of such games that might be on Steam itself and un patched in that way.
Here is the main page for the site:
You can either use the search function to look for a specific game entry, or just click "all games" on the left hand site to get started.
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home
Too bad their going back on their word of no DRM ever
I had waited a long time to play that game but just never got round to buying it.
Im glad I did wait years because it meant I could go into the game fresh and experience all the restored content with the patch.
https://tcrf.net/Vampire:_The_Masquerade_-_Bloodlines
I love stuff like that, missing features and cut content especially when it gets restored ;P
I think that something similar may have happened with Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl a 2007 era game - a mighty community patch restoring lost content.
There were some cool things in the entry for Goldeneye 007 on the N64.
Of course Rare being Rare back then, they also had a proud history as "Ultimate Play The Game" which just rolls of the tongue but were known for quality games on the Sinclair Spectrum.
Besides the cheat codes that dramatically increased the character roster etc there was apparently a Spectrum emulator complete with an "Ultimate" era game or game(s) tucked away within the game code via a developer menu?
That sounds like the stuff of urban myths and I would love to check it out myself - I have the console and that particular game too, its just buried and Im still looking into ways to get it to display properly on modern tv without hookin it up to old crt screens. Some future project.
For those Interested:
https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor