i like this old game. but it wont work! keeps crashing when goto the map.
will you people please fix it?

This patch is a lifesaver! Much thanks!

Patch has been reworked to fix the issue without creating annoying visual glitches at the edges of the map.

it's doing funny stuff with the top of the map viewer window now
halp

Thanks a lot !

Works, and also works on the ziggurat mod. no crashes whatsoever.thanks

The game isn't changing - it's the environment that it's running in that's changing. This game was made in 1999 to run in Windows 98. We're several generations of operating systems past that and you have to do some tweaking to make a program this old work in a modern environment.

verify if it's safe, compile it myself *sigh* sounds like I need to learn a whole lot more about tech to play this game. well...I have been wanting to raise my technical literacy. Guess I better start doing some research.

...hey why is this old game prone to changes exactly? I play plenty of old games, but only the age of wonders series has even given me this kind of trouble. Who's messing with the game files? They screwed up Shadow Magic for me they did. Wish they'd just stop picking at it. The game was working fine until today. Never had these problems with Knights and Merchants.

rock.golem - it usually is, but since you can also get the source code you can verify if it's safe, or even compile it yourself. It's an old game, prone to changes and errors arisen from changes made to hardware and system architecture between what the game was made to run at and what we may have now. As such it's often impossible to rely on the original creators and we need workarounds like this, often made by a skilled community member (or rarely one of the original devs incognito).
Whatever works best.

Isn't downloading code from strangers on the internet really risky? I want to play this game, but needing to download something from github in order to do it seems pretty unreasonable.