I played a little of this game when I bought it years ago although Origin have/had this annoying habit of creating games without frame limiters so that the faster your computer the faster the game. I managed to get it playable using a utility from Simtel that slowed the computers clock frequency.
But now I can enjoy this beauty of a game 10 years down the line and in my opinion is one more very good reason to install Linux
Cheers,
Simon Constable
Software Developer