We were able to put the emulators on our network drives, so the admins couldn't revert your change when the ghosted the machine.
My favorite accomplishment from that era was discovering that I could make the single core machines beep themselves to death and sneaking that into the shortcut icon for IE in the ghost image. Man was the IT admin mad about that 🤣
Yeah, you're free to die on the streets starving and cold, just like the founding fathers would have wanted.