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One-Core-API (run modern binaries on Windows XP/2003)
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6 sourcesZone94 is still releasing modern Windows XP distributions and OneCore API brings Windows 10-level app support to Windows XP.
https://github.com/shorthorn-project/One-Core-API-Binaries
In Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11If you install the right software, Windows XP reportedly can run most Windows 7 software too:
https://github.com/shorthorn-project/One-Core-API-Binaries
That adds various NT 6 APIs and even compatibility modes for various newer versions of Windows up to Windows 11. At a glance, it appears to have support for Vulkan, Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11 through software rendering, with the option of using WineD3D to get hardware accelerated Direct3D 10 and 11. I assume old WineD3D-PBA binaries run very nicely on that.
Interestingly, the developer suggests that installing graphics drivers from newer versions of Windows might be possible at some point, which I assume would provide native hardware acceleration for newer graphics APIs and support for recent graphics cards:
> WDDM is not impossible, only very hard. Currently initializes and the subsyste
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m runs, but every driver fails to communicate with it's internal hardware due 2000/XP/2003 doesn't have support for MSI/MSI-X interrupt, required to WDDM drivers works;
https://github.com/shorthorn-project/One-Core-API-Binaries/i...
These will keep one running XP perhaps for a little while longer (on qemu on ipad, or other machine). With One-Core-API Chrome 102 works.
https://github.com/tumagonx/xompie/
https://i430vx.net/files/win32/
https://github.com/Skulltrail192/One-Core-API-Binaries/issue...
https://github.com/Skulltrail192/One-Core-API-Binaries/issue...
In My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)