Free Downloadable Games: The Last Frontier

Let me paint this gloomy scene:

I am in Brampton (possibly the dullest suburb in Canada) at my in-laws, sitting in a small room, bored from hours of reading. There is something that passes as a computer in front of me (a 700Mhz Celeron) with a DSL Lite connection. Even the Yahoo! Chess interface (the old one) runs slowly on the "computer", so what is a gamer to do?

After some time researching many (slow-loading) pages, looking at unfinished products (about 99% of the free gaming remake projects out there are unfinished), here are some connections if you ever find yourself in such desperate times:

• RetroRemakes - This site has tons of free options. Their
  scope is basically limited to remakes of really old games, and their list isn't completely up to date in terms of projects that have been abandoned, but I found myself playing The Legend of Shadow (Legend of Kage remake) for quite some time. I did run into a play-stopping bug as it slowed down to about 8-frames a second for no apparent reason halfway into the second area though. And of course, there is no save feature, so I resorted to...
• Space Quest 0 - Yes, Roger Wilco's lost adventure! This is such a throwback; you have to type. That evoked both a sense of horror and joy. Yes, you will actually have to type "search body" into the console if you want to make your way around this game. I didn't play this game too long, but the humour was spot-on and it didn't have any technical problems.

I downloaded, but did not get a chance to try the LodeRunner remake I found on SourceForge, but generally SourceForge is a bust for these kinds of things. Although I hear the Star Control 2 remake is solid.

Do you have an inside scoop on any free offline gaming that doesn't require much processing power or a real video card?