On: Unofficial Windows 7 Service Pack 2

[AndrewDavis]

Similarly I went on an XP odyssey late last year. I acquired a retired workstation from $dayjob that I decided to turn into a retro XP game machine. It was very late for XP but within a generation or two before Intel, Nvidia and the motherboard provided drivers (Ivy bridge and GTX 660 GPU).

But that didn't get you through the installer... I discovered a plethora of alternative install media with built in community drivers providing support for nvme drives, modern ACPI extensions etc.

It's so complete you can install it on today's current hardware.

[xattt → AndrewDavis]

> retro XP game machine

This still gets me as I vividly remember when the family computer was finally going to move past Windows 98 in 2001.

[potato3732842 → AndrewDavis]

This capability exists in large part because large parts of heavy industry still run on software that only runs (right) on XP.

[FirmwareBurner → AndrewDavis]

Care to share sources for those alternative media with modern drivers?

[CursedSilicon → FirmwareBurner]

Likely the "XP Integral Edition" that is updated every now and again

https://zone94.com/software/operating-systems/123-windows-xp...

[AndrewDavis → CursedSilicon]

Yep that was it.