User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/The Sims Wiki News - 3rd April 2014/@comment-4568327-20140402234852/@comment-2201555-20140404003821

There's games on Steam from the 90s that use DOSBox to emulate and they run fine. I know that emulating DOS and WinXP are far from the same thing both technically and fundamentally but maybe somewhere down the line it will be a viable solution for TS2 using an XP emulator.