I'm sure you all have noticed that at start this game kills explorer, even on Windows XP which has no problems playing the games retail version, and still doesn't work on windows 7 on default without setting it to run in 256 colours. What gives, it seems like such a bizarre thing to do.
Oh my god I posted this in the 1nsane forum instead of RCT, I have no idea how that happened and I apologize.

You posted this here because the game info window links to this forum rather than the RCT forum. GOG needs to fix the link.