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3 has worked perfectly on ScummVM for at least a decade, and you can buy it on Gog.

4 is indeed very much a pain (and so are the controls). The PS2 version is better than the PC version in my experience.

There was ResidualVM for Escape from MI which has been merge with ScummVM. I haven't tried in a while but it was playable from what I remember (even if controls were still a pain)

It's in good shape indeed: https://www.scummvm.org/compatibility/DEV/comi/

I didn’t know that - I’ll have to check it out, thanks!

protondb says they work out of the box on linux for some people

https://www.protondb.com/app/730830

https://www.protondb.com/app/730820

> Getting them to run reliably on a modern computer is an adventure in its own right.

I always enjoyed this meta game back when it was fiddling with config.sys and such. Shouldn't need that for a 9x game, but other fiddling would make sense.

They are available on Steam today, surely they've upgraded or rebuilt the engine to run on modern machines? Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried.