Old-ish comment so the problem may have been figured out already, but if you're on windows 10 trying to play in fullscreen mode (which the game is in automatically), you'll wanna download the directx 8 to 9 converter (I haven't actually tried to play w/o it downloaded but the page says it fixes the game not working so) here:
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