First post, by theshinyknight
I would like to have a small computer to run old XP games; nothing fancy, not planning to run Crysis or anything like that, but more like early 2000 games at 1280x1024 resolution or 1600x1200 at most.
Was looking at some builds but they require huge ATX motherboards and full size GPU; which is something I would like to avoid. Is there any chance to get a small build, like a NUC or a similar small size form factor, that still support XP OS? I tried with thin clients made from HP and they work to an extent, as I can play XP games up to a point, but the performances and compatibility is really low; so it is more of a waste of time to get those to work more than anything.
New hardware is powerful but won't work with old OS and use more power than what it should, for a 32 bit single core OS; so I hope there is some way to use either modern hardware "downgraded" to emulate somehow old hardware, like you can do with DOS machines and some Win 98 games; but for XP games and P3/P4 era computers. Or maybe there is some old hardware that is still around and can fit this purpose? It does not need to be as small as a paperback book like a NUC but not as big as a ATX tower either 😁