I did find an older version of Gimp in my archive. A Gimp 2.0.3 from about 2004. Saved myself some hassle and got a WinXP VM from the Internet Archive site.
The installation files are too large for this site so on my web storage
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=...ksjpDpQ9by Gimp203.zip about 12 MB.
Unzip and there are 3 files. gimp203_setup.exe gtkplus_243_setup.exe GIMP_Win_install.pdf
Please read the PDF but in those days you installed gtkplus first then the gimp installer.
Not going to enter into any discussion on this, try it or not as you wish.
The installation files are too large for this site so on my web storage
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=...ksjpDpQ9by Gimp203.zip about 12 MB.
Unzip and there are 3 files. gimp203_setup.exe gtkplus_243_setup.exe GIMP_Win_install.pdf
Please read the PDF but in those days you installed gtkplus first then the gimp installer.
Not going to enter into any discussion on this, try it or not as you wish.