T2: Pirate Cove is an overlooked classic in the city builder genre, and stands up really well 20 years later. What it lacks in HD pixels and QoL shortcuts, it more than makes up in the humor and creativity that went into the models, the audio, and the pirate/captive needs mechanics. It's easily the most personality to come out of a Tropico game before or since. As for running it on Win 10/11? It's frustrating but doable. My experience: find tropico2.exe in the game folder, right-click it and "Troubleshoot Compatibility." The system will set it to Win XP SP3, and give an error when you test it. Ignore the error and tell Windows it worked. Close the troubleshooter and try launching the .exe. It will probably crash. If it hasn't launched successfully after 3 tries, open tropico2.ini in a .txt editor (will probably open in Notepad by default) and change the value under [DDraw] > SoftwareDevice. Your options are 1 and 0, but it seems like it's changing the value that matters, not which value you land on. So, if it's 0, make it 1, and vice versa. Close and save the .ini and try launching again. Repeat these steps, 3 tries then edit the .ini, until you make it into a game. The only crashes I'm getting are initially loading the intro, or trying to launch a game once you've set one up. Once you're in a game, in my experience, you're golden.
As soon as gog's edition included the expansion, I snapped it up. SMAC took the Civ franchise (unofficially) to a new height it hasn't seen since. I would love to see a graphics refresh, but honestly the graphics hold up pretty well.
