The gaslighting by the games industry is real, I felt like having a play through of Rome Total War recently and the remastered edition is completely bugged and unplayable and I mean you really can't even click on buttons after awhile because the third party studio they contracted to mess with the original fucked it up so badly. I'm not even sure if I try playing Baldur's Gate I want to experience the crappy 'enhanced' edition and I'd rather play it in it's original form. It's kind of remarkable how none of the reviews are mentioning how broken some of these releases are.
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DosboxX or PCEmu will often play stuff that requires Win98 or before.
For things that run on XP, I would recommend VMWare ESXi with your graphics card running through PCI passthrough. It doesn't handle 100% of all games (I've seen one or two that detect that combo as "cheating"), but it handles a lot.
My primary gaming rig runs ESXi with a bunch of VMs set up with various operatiing systems, and my graphics card is just old enough that I can find an old XP NVIDIA driver for a different card of the same architecture that works with it.