then why not just have a dual boot and put the student version of windows XP along side your win 8 ...
it doesn't require a trip to MS to activate it ...your bios should be fine as are your drivers for the mother boards chips set ...it should stay because you already have an operating system on the hard drive ..but check it all out first I could be very wrong ....
I think that would be great for all of the
BL games on here.... ????...CG pack is going well ....just can't seem to get the backgrounds ...got music/dialogue cg events sprites/characters...but the backgrounds ..don't know ..but will try again tonight .....very very new to this "extracting" business... XD
EDIT :: ...those background images ....were already in the "I" folder ...lol