I just remembered about Sims 2 and downloaded it, and a few weeks later there's a re-release in AGES..........but I'm so exited that Sims 1 & 2 won't be abandonware now lol!!
both have been re-released!! unfortunately it looks like the sims 2 versions is kinda buggy and unplayable at the moment. but the sims 1 versions works fine for me!! i had the ultimate collection downloaded from the old games archive when they had it up