I loved SMAC and far later SMAX for a very long time now because the story as well as the gameplay are outstanding from day one and I might say even today. I used to play german localisation which many say is even better. However the bugs and crashes also were legion for this game. It was usually usefull to make use of serveral official and fanpaches to make the game do what it is intended to do. And I am not yet sure which patches are included in this pack. Further more when time went on SMAX got massive problems with newer OS like win7, there it was sometimes impossible to get it running at all. Now I tried this release for win7+, just I don't have a win7+ system at hand right now. Therefor I installed in Linux using vanilla wine which is horribly sensitive to bad, meaning buggy, program code. The GoG-release installed and started without a single problem. I take this nothing short of extraordinarily. Thank you very much GoG. This is obviously much more than a simple 'buy the lizens and sell it as it is'-release. This is very well done to run on current operating systems.
