Nostalgia Rekindled: Free CD-ROM Archive Brings Back Childhood Games.
The Internet Archive has a collection of CD-ROM files that span decades, including games and software from the 1989-2001 era. The archive has just under 46,000 entries, from applications and games to gatherings of public-domain software or clip art. The collection features over 71,000 entries, conveniently sorted into dozens of categories. To run these programs on Windows, you can use compatibility mode, which simulates a previous Windows OS for the purpose of running software incompatible with Windows 10 or 11. The Internet Archive also has a huge collection of old arcade games.