We’ll see about that graphics accelleration. The laptop doesn’t have a dedicated GPU anyways. Either QEMU/KVM does it or I can pass through half the intel iGPU or it’ll just be slow.

Assuming you're a GPU supported by macOS you might be able to get good results by treating with like an hackintosh: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/

I'm not sure how macOS plays with GVT-g / SR-IOV / sharing slices of hardware but this guy says he go it to work https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/innriq/successful_macos_catalina_with_intel_gvtg/. I personally never got macOS with GPU acceleration working fine on a VM because my host is NVIDIA and unsupported. However I did have very good results in HP Mini computers running macOS by following the links before.

Thank you for the Midtown Madness 2 link. I need that, too. Spent quite some time in that blocky version of San Francisco when I was a kid.

I believe the hacks work with other games from that time as well as it solves the DirectX and GPU issues nicely without permanente changes to your system.