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You can play Island of Dr Brain on archive.org! https://archive.org/details/msdos_Island_of_Dr._Brain_1992

They have Lost Mind as well, but not emulated because it's a Windows game. I wouldn't be surprised if it still runs, though.

Wine is suprising me more and more with running these early windows games.

I kind of want to install The Incredible Machine now. I just have to find a can opener, a rocket and a baseball. Hmm..

The creator of The Incredible Machine made an HD remake called Contraption Maker:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/241240/Contraption_Maker

It's extremely faithful to the original in terms of "feeling", to the point where it satisfies my TIM nostalgia

We were allowed to play Castle of Dr Brain in class, but there was no save feature, so some of us got pretty good at speedrunning the first puzzles to spend the rest of class on the next one.

Island of Dr. Brain works well in ScummVM!

All old games are available.

Specifically, here: https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html