Let's just say disc swap tricks can work wonders with Boot Camp. If it weren't for Apple artificially "removing" support for older Windows versions with newer macOS'es...
I found my old student copy of Windows 7. It was an upgrade disc, but Boot Camp accepted it anyway. Used the Boot Camp wizard to make the Windows partition, rebooted, swapped out the disc with the XP CD at the boot screen, and installed XP from there. The drivers came off a spare iMac disc set I found on eBay. I left the Boot Camp partition as FAT32 to prevent any post-install issues. The benefit of this is the XP partition appears under Finder with read/write access.

After installing all the Windows Updates, I disabled the network adapter and Wifi card.
![[Image: Periwinkle-XP-03.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/SVBtFSm/Periwinkle-XP-03.jpg)
Here's a bit of fun. While figuring out a compatible version of QuickTime to install, I saved one of the older sample movies. Here it is, a QT 3.0 sample movie playing in QT 7.6. In the days of QT 3, running Windows on a Mac was unheard of. It wouldn't be long before Apple would dump IBM and go Intel.
![[Image: Periwinkle-Mac-Desktop.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/XzzRD13/Periwinkle-Mac-Desktop.jpg)
And, here is the macOS desktop. I changed it to a screencap from one of my favorite Christmas cartoons, Santa and the Three Bears. Given how the world completely sucks at the moment, I need a bit of Christmas cheer now and then.
Oh yeah... MS appears to have turned off the XP activation servers. To verify it wasn't a network problem, I accessed a known safe website,
www.ozfoxes.com, home to a furry webcomic I read and still rocks an early 2000s HTML layout. That site loaded fine, but the activation screen still wouldn't connect at all. I had to activate over the phone, which takes about 10 minutes and typing in a very long numbers both on phone and on the computer.
I love foxes, especially the one in my avatar.