I have to admit, I played SMAC when it first came out in the late 1990's and loved the theme of Civ in Space so when I found it on sale on gog, I bought it. Yes, I now have a 40 inch display, rather than my 17 inch back then, so was limited to 1024x768 but the gameplay was and still is the reason to play. However, I had to modify the Alpha Centauri.Ini file with settings Video Mode=1024 DirectDraw=0 in order for it to work in windows7 64bit. Gog had its own general tips on making "old" games work, but only these specific setting worked for me and hopefully, they will help other people who have a similar problem. SMAC installed fine, but before the changed settings in its ini file, the graphics look corrupted and barely navigable. Needless to say, if you don't know how to edit a text file, like Alpha Centauri.Ini, then you will have to first learn how do do that.
