While most of the software you need to speedrun Excel 95 is freely available at WinWorld (<- Link here) and is fairly easy to get running, the full trilogy can be tricky. There is a bit of a legal grey area with some parts of the specific emulation I use and with Office 2000.

I'm not necessarily concerned with the emulation software - the BIOSes it uses are murkily licensed, but unlikely to cause any real trouble, and there are enough free and clearly legal alternatives.

Office 2000 is another story...

A few sites like WinWorld are allowed by Microsoft to distribute all but Excel/Office 2000 for archival and educational purposes, and what we're doing would fall under this. While you can certainly get Office 2000 products from sources like Archive.org, I feel uncomfortable linking to Office 2000 in this way. On a side note, I really don't know why that is. Much of the rest of the software from that era is hosted, it's literally just Office 2000.

Even more mysteriously, by several sources - Office 2000 is similarly allowed for educational and archival purposes, it's just that Microsoft doesn't allow it to be freely available on these sites. I'm inclined to respect that wish and not directly link anything to do with it here.

That said, if you are interested in a preconfigured emulator to run either Hall of Tortured Souls or the Full Trilogy, please feel free to reach out to me on discord or twitter. I can at least help there.

I personally use PCem (an early PC emulator) and mostly resources from WinWorld, though I do have access to original disks. PCem tends to be more accurate and capable for the later Direct X based "magic" than alternatives like DOSBox because it attempts to accurately emulate specific processors and graphics adaptors. You can get it all working in DOSBox, sure but it's more work than it's worth.

Link for PCem: https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ Link for Winworld: https://winworldpc.com/home