VMware-Workstation no 32-bit CPU support anymore

grrr
just tried to install VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.0-.i386.bundle on my 32bit workstation and got the error:

VMware Installer
"One or more of your processors does not have the necessary 64bit extensions to run VMware virtual machines."

A quick search is telling me why:

VMware communities forum:

Question:
"Is there any chance that support for 32bit CPUs (P4) will return in 8.x?"

Answer:
"No, 32-bit CPU support won't be coming back

We dropped 32-bit CPU support to make our code simpler and easier to maintain, to improve performance, and to remove constraints going forward. Continuing to support 32-bit CPUs also would have been a burden for development and for testing. Since it's no longer possible to buy 32-bit CPUs (aside from some old 32-bit Atoms), we don't believe that supporting them is worth the trouble.

Unfortunately, if you need to continue using a 32-bit CPU, you will need to use Workstation 7."

Here you have it, you need a 64-bit VT-capable CPU. Obviously this machine I'm trying to install it on doesn't have it :(