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Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X (2023)

Remember how I said that DOSBox-X is not able to run Windows XP? Well, turns out I was wrong. I was very, very wrong.

Unfortunately, this wasn’t an option either because after a reboot it simply failed to copy the very first file - turns out that Windows Setup already started to overwrite vital parts of the previous installation. After the first boot, Windows XP is supposed to start the so-called “Out of Box Experience” (OOBE) in order to finalize the installation by setting up some options and the user account. The beautiful setup music was cluttered with tons of distortion sounding like incredible compression artifacts caused by a very unhappy WMA decoder.

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