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It might be stupid question, but
did you, (after disable hardware acceleration), actually start the game in any game-play mode, or just see black sq on the screen above ?
Great Game.
I like it because you can be good for your creatures:)
It is really cool that You have made this special pack. 1.7 with maps.
In the past i used to play on win98 but after few years i land on vista and till now I couldn't find/make working 1.7 version of the game.
You did it...