I have an original copy of this game on floppy disk and was able to get it to run via dosbox, but no matter how I tweak the settings I have an issue with control. Everything seems to run at normal speed like they did on my old 486, but the mouse controls seem unresponsive when raising or lowering land. When I click to raise or lower land, there seems to be a delay and sometimes I have to click on a spot multiple times before it raises or lowers. Is this issue present on the gog version with the default settings? If not, I may purchase the gog version.

Thanks

I do see a mouse lag while playing. You'll also find lag while typing in a savegame name or your diety name.

It happens. I think it's an ignorable problem for a 20-something-year-old game, but I can see how it might annoy some folks.

Thanks for the reply! The funny thing is, it used to run fine on my old 486 pc. I can get used to it, but it confounds me that modern PCs can't run old games as well as older computers. :)

Short form, IMU: A lot of DOS games ran in 16-bit modes. Your old computer probably ran 16-bit natively; a new/modern 64-bit computer? Not so much.

That's my best guess, anyway, and it sounds plausible to me.

I have a small lag, but it's a lot better than the Amiga version (running in WinUAE). If I recall correctly, the original versions also had this problem more or less - I guess we were just more tolerant at the time ;-)