(re: Older games?) The future may be a lot closer than you think, many people are slowly realising that there is more than just fancy graphics.
Like you said, a lot of the games don’t run under XP Dos and fast P4’s, however there is a project that I have been made aware of that will enable one to run older DOS games in an emulated DOS enviroment (much like the Apple Emulator on the Roberta Williams Anthology – btw great collection!) and quite a few games are able to run under it. For those interested, have a look at:
Link: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net(http://dosbox.sourceforge.net)
I really wish that they would put together collection games, but I suppose that that way they would be afraid that they would have to support it. But if they don’t want to support it then they should state that xyz is classed as abandonware for the general public enjoyment. Sigh! We can only wish.