See, when I made that post last week, I forgot about the console versions of The Sims. Dolphin, PCSX2, and Visual Boy Advance-M are all perfectly compatible with Windows 10 (x86-64 only, of course), and there's nothing EA can do to stop it. They've certainly tried, but it's the old "too big to be stopped" thing. There are just too many copies of EA console games on too many different servers and too many individual computers for the corporation to swoop in and wipe it all off the face of history. And even if they do, the physical copies of the games that were sold in the stores still exist to make new ISOs and ROMs from.
So, it's only the main series—The Sims for Windows and its sequels—that are unplayable on Windows 10. And that isn't even fully true, either; what with software piracy. The only thing preventing Windows 10 launching The Sims Complete Collection is SECDRV.SYS; and Safedisc has been pretty well dissected at this stage for even entry-level hackers to understand how to defeat it and patch it out of a clean install. The same with SecuROM. If you've clicked around this website, it's no secret that I'm an advocate for software piracy (as long as the "victim" is a giant corporate outfit, like EA; and not an independent developer, like Croteam), so my solution to most problems is "just pirate it".
--21 August 2023--