Just a heads up, that I was able to install VMware PlayerFree 7 with a Windows XP Guest OS and SFC3 and it plays beautifully on my W8 gaming PC.
I would assume that the other SFCs should work as well, but I haven't tested them yet.
Someone posted a while back that they had it working with an older version of the VMware Player , but the game gave me non-stop flickering and was unable to play when I tried it. But this newer version seems to work pretty decent.
BTW, I'm really tired of filling out a capcha everytime I go to post...