Most folks have probably stumbled across the Home of the Underdogs at some point – it’s the definitive abandonware download site on the net, with literally thousands of games available that are no longer being published. It’s a wonderful resource, but unfortunately in order to pay the bills they’ve been forced to use increasingly…invasive advertising schemes, to the point where it’s a hassle to get stuff from them. Today I happened across an alternative site, XTC Abandonware. They don’t have the comprehensive selection of content that Underdogs has, and they seem to lack any of the Mac content, but there are more classics there for the grabbing than any one person could play in a lifetime. Go grab yourself a copy of the original warlords for example, and enjoy one of the better strategy games ever made. A weekend of enjoyable gaming is but 539k away 😉

(For Mac users, I’ll note that most of the games are sufficiently old that they’ll run just fine under Virtual PC, with no performance issues).