Really wish there was a way to play SOTE on modern PC's, it's a real shame that it will remain incompatible, it would've really helped if the source code was released before the Lucas games shutdown.
If I found a community made patch for Rogue Squadron to play on my modern win7 x64 PC then surely there is a way to run SotE. Also have XWA too but that has a pretty large community upgrading the game still.