v0.0.1

Patch your own COLONIZE.EXE in the browser at https://colonization-re.github.io/win-patches/, which now serves this release. win-patches.html below is the same page: save it and it works offline.

patch	kind	status
Cheat menu: "Show Colony Sites" (an empty stub) becomes the hidden Picture Viewer cheat-picture-viewer	feature	bytes and behaviour checked; not yet confirmed in play
New game: the introduction pages advance every 5 seconds instead of every 10 intro-pages-5s	qol	bytes and behaviour checked; not yet confirmed in play
Colonopedia: the Free Colonist page draws its three extra icons side by side pedia-colonist-icons	fix	bytes and behaviour checked; not yet confirmed in play
Water Color Cycling: river currents and beach surf move, as in the DOS version water-cycling	feature	seen in play 2026-09-26 (Wine 11 + otvdm on macOS): river currents and beach surf move, the rest of the water does not

For the updated 1995 release, SHA-256 59a0e173452924603112cf410483021c02ef0cd3512e310d8966b21e0c176291. The page and patch.py (in the source archive) check your file before they change it. The .ips files do not, so check its SHA-256 first.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/colonization-re/win-patches/commits/v0.0.1