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Windows 7 uses the 256 colour palette that the full-screen game also uses for its "aero" effects. That is why we introduced the batch file that nukes the windows 7 aero (explorer) in order to allow full-screen play. It works for some windows 7 machines, but it may not be fully stable, or survive future graphic card driver updates, since 256 colour mode is "obsolete" in Microsoft's game plan.

Windowed mode uses the regular windows 32 bit palette, and so it plays properly with other windows applications. You can switch tasks without windows "losing" the 256 colour palette and scrambling it when you return. In windows 7, there is no need to nuke windows explorer, and sometimes having to restart it on exit from the game if the batch file fails to start it.

Full-screen mode is no longer supported - its only there because of the DOS heritage of the game. That mode may work for some folk's combinations of operating system and graphics card, but if so then that is just sheer luck.