Re: First Impressions ..
What's the screen color depth? I rather suspect you are running in a 256-color mode. If so, color changes when you Alt-Tab are basically inevitable. This will happen with any program that uses anything other than the default color set in 16 or 256 color mode. This is a hardware limitation.
You can see the same thing by loading almost any picture of the real world and then Alt-Tabbing away.
Beyond that, I will agree the game has some rough edges. By modern standards the graphics are miserable and there are some stupidities in the user interface as well. Look past them at the strategy behind it--the game is excellent despite the cosmetic problems.
(My only connection to this game is as a customer. I am a programmer, though, and am well aware of the limits imposed by the 16 and 256 color modes.)
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