Just FYI.

I anyone finds a way to achive it - I'll be more than glad to read it.

So I'm sure you don't want to hear this, but I'm curious...

Why are you still running XP?


EDIT: Also, to be a little bit more constructive, the originals (not classic, but actual CD originals), should run fine on XP. I don't know if Classic are meant to support XP or not.

Because it still does its job (running programs I need) quite well... .Also in my case - upgrading to Windows 7 would end up in upgrading hardware (at least motherboard/CPU/RAM)...and although I stumble against such cases as today from time to time - I can live with that.

As for the topic - I've read that Wine could be a way to circumvent the the problem - I'm going to give it a try.

EDIT: It seems Wine saves the day for XP users :-P

Used Wine 1.9.12 installed within PlayOnLinux on Mint 17 64bit and very ancient hardware (SB LIVE, ATI 9600 Pro). Homewolrd 2 classic ran right of the box, for Homeworld 1 I had to set this -noglddraw and that's it