Thanks for that, I think it applied properly, cant see any version number in game though. Appreciate it!

Just a warning, these patches may trigger antivirus software
(DrWeb engine for example detects trojan injectors in Scient and Yitzi's patches)

Thank you for the warning. But...is there a good valid reason why these should be detected that way? It seems to me that simple game patches of the type these are, how they work and what they purport to do for the game, should never be flagged by anti-virus software. Seems very odd to me.

Probably, it's patcher code in .exe file that sets off alarm.
I checked loose files of unofficial pathes (github) with same DrWeb scanner - they are clean.

I think some antivirus software take a "better safe than sorry" approach and are very likely to flag as a threat .exe files that are not too common. We have had cases in which a newly released installer by GOG gave a false positive. They must have a database fed by their users' analysis, since over time these files become "trusted".

Echoing what someone said above, Thinker AI should definitely be on the front page, as the first choice. It includes all the fixes + an amazing AI mod + some graphical fixes.

Also, OpenSMACX is a project to reverse engineer the code. It'll hopefully eventually replace the executable completely, allowing much better modding.

Yeah would be nice to have Thinker mentioned on the front page. The other mods before it had their merits but nothing else really even came close to revamping the AI to the extent this mod did. To some degree it can be said the results provided by OpenSMACX were already put to good use in modding new features for Thinker. You can also visit the reddit page here for any active discussions: https://old.reddit.com/r/alphacentauri/

No, it's probably because one EXE (the installer) is overwriting portions of a known EXE (terran.exe) with binary info. This is a common behavior of certain kinds of viruses. (edit) and the installer for the unofficial patch is not from the same publisher as the installer of the original EXE.

edit - irrelevant

Well, my copy of SMAC no longer works. There's no DirectPlay anymore, and all I get is an error message when I try to run the game.

Front page updated to include Thinker mod.

If you are aware of a new patch, I can be contacted by private message, I am not omniscient.

There is a new project that started this January called GLSMAC which would make most of these fixes obsolete.
So far it's a one-man show but it's making good progress, which you can follow in a thread on CivFanatics.

Nice! Thanks for letting us know.

thanks for the heads up

AlphaCentauri2.info seems to be down, and Wayback Machine apparently did not store the Yitzi patch downloads. Any idea if the patches have been mirrored anywhere?