When it comes to authentic experience legacy patches are part of it. A good source May be old magazine Discs but it consumes time to download and try them out.

Maybe i'll launch an old game patch share site everyone can contribute too. I am just not sure about the legal side if these patches can be redistributed freely.

AncapDude wrote on Today, 10:03:

Maybe i'll launch an old game patch share site everyone can contribute too. I am just not sure about the legal side if these patches can be redistributed freely.

I've been thinking uploading my data hoard to archive.org. Official demos and patches used to be distributed freely online on various aggregator sites and the publishers themselves so I don't think there should be any legal issue.

RandomStranger wrote on Today, 09:52:

Most of the time I don't patch them. Unless they are completely broken. I like to have the authentic experience from back then.
Though back then I read a gaming magazine which had CDs and later DVDs bundled with them. A full game a month, some demos, patches, trailers, drivers, other miscellaneous stuff. I archived them on an external hard drive.

I played them this way in the past and it is great already, but now, if it is a single player patch, I want to see what the developer actually intended or had to correct to allow finest gameplay. 😀

Example 1: In Warcraft 1, the catapult will not fire into crowds when your people are in it too. This is a major impact on bigger fights.
Example 2: In Dune 2, you can have MT32+Soundblaster Sounds with a patch which offers a lot more immersion.
Example 3: In Heroes of Might and Magic 2, you get more maps.

I might not have the best advise as I tend to go for quality over quantity.

For example, a friend of mine has (I think) every DOS game over made. I don't recall where he got them, but I've seen him try and launch a few with the results being buggy audio, weird mouse movement, and so on.

Me, I like to take my time. Typically this consists of a custom DOSBox config file, a Batch script to launch the game, alongside my own documentation for when I die and someone gets all my files.

Basically just Google plus trial and error for me.