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Not much, but maybe these two links help a bit:

Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released!

Liberated Games

Great that you have asked this question, I have the same problem! I was a happy starroms.com customer very disappointed when they had to close their business. The prices for the games at Starroms were very fair and it is sad that not more gamers supported legal ROMs.

The way I am solving this for me so that I can stil sleep at night (while still being illegal):
1) I download and play the ROMs if I once owned the cartride. I did not keep all the cartridges due to lack of space but don't feel bad if I play these games today on an emulator. I made a contribution to the people who created the game.
2) If it is a game I never owned I will try to somehow purchase a product of a company that is clearly associated with the game. Preferably a collection of old games as they are available from Sega et. al.
3) If it is not possible to purchase a related product today and I really adore the original game I might try to find out who the developers were and see if I could somehow contribute to something they are doing today. Maybe they are raising funds for elderly game devs? But I have to admit that up to now I have never done this. I don't even have time for playing the new games I buy for current consoles :-(

Err, I mean from JOUSTJU.S in

http://www.programmerfish.com/Attari7800/JOUST.zip

There are two broken links. It can be easier to just browse the directory and grab the files. http://www.programmerfish.com/Attari7800/

But the more I use linux (Ubuntu in case you are interested), the more unhappy I am. It's the little things, like, keyboard not processing input on dual screen when there's no window open on that desktop. And configuring / changing (external) display configuration is simply broken. And high IO really brings system on the knees (even surfing is not possible while writing to a CD). Firefox is sloooooowwww. No exchange client. No out of the box AD integration. And so on and on and on.

Many of the complaints you list here I think are valid, because I'm using Ubuntu Linux as well and I have found myself thinking the exact same thing. Specifically, all of the trouble with X.org and dual-head, the high IO, and the slow firefox all resonate with me. None of these are enough to make me go back to Windows though; overall, Ubuntu offers a much better experience for me than Windows.

Mac OS, on the other hand, is very intriguing. Unix-based (FreeBSD, specifically), and yet has 110% hardware support. A thriving ecosystem of free software available (much [most?] of it ported from GNU/Linux). Overall, it seems like a pretty attractive target. There are just two things that really really prevent me from using it: the UI, and the culture. The UI I find to be bloated and ineffecient, and the culture feels quite closed. Until Apple opens up their OS and allows me to install it on non-Apple hardware, and stops bricking jailbroken iPhones, I just don't see Apple products as something I want to use. Better to target Ubuntu, which is technically very close, and properly philosophically aligned.

Oh, and as far as getting MS Office working on Ubuntu, apparently you can get it to work under Wine:

http://www.programmerfish.com/roffice-2007-in-linux/

I haven't tried it myself, though, so your mileage may vary.

Except for this part: ./winetricks gdiplus riched20 riched30 msxml3 msxml4 msxml6 corefonts tahoma vb6run vcrun6 msi2

And the part where he links to a legal download of MSO from Microsoft servers:
http://www.programmerfish.com/free-direct-download-microsoft-office-2007

You do need a product key, though.