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ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You can find plenty of ISO files on archive.org. I’m not sure about the legality of it, so I’ll say I don’t condone doing it, etc. But some of them have been there for several years, so I think MS doesn’t care.

Just be careful about clinking links in the user comments. People have been known to post shady links and moderation seems to be lacking, from what I’ve seen.

Good luck getting your game to run! Oh, and long live archive.org!

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turbowafflz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For operating systems winworldpc.com/library is easier to find things in and has way faster download speeds

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- ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is really cool, thanks for sharing!
  
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Tyoda@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
At some point M$ allowed the free download of something called “Windows XP Mode for Windows 7”. It was some virtual machine or something. What matters is that it’s possible to extract an XP ISO from this, which I have successfully used to spin up a virtual machine! It still complains about a license key, though.

The reason I mention this is that this is still available on archive.org, and it’s signed by M$, so you know it’s legit. I don’t know if other ISOs available have such a receipt of authenticity. Probably, but I never cared enough to check, especially since I grabbed this from the official website while it was available.

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