I might have found a solution to this. I was trying to run avernum 4 on my new win 8 machine and it gave me a message saying I had to run with 16 bit color. if you right click the executable file for the game go to properties and then go to the compatibility tab you can choose reduced color mode. after I did this it fired right up.
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I might have found a solution to this. I was trying to run avernum 4 on my new win 8 machine and it gave me a message saying I had to run with 16 bit color. if you right click the executable file for the game go to properties and then go to the compatibility tab you can choose reduced color mode. after I did this it fired right up.