Got a fancy recently to play some Civilization III.
I had been actually playing it before on Linux+WINE, but now, with my linux upgraded, the game wouldn't run in its basic variant. And in its Conquests variant it paints its background black after switching away and back to the game instance.
W/r to the 1st issue, it looks like something lacks from the WINE or doesn't interaface with it well enough. But I couldn't manage the diagnostics output so had to leave it at...