Bought it on steam (for a few pounds) after reading about the 'latest' patch.
Other than the odd crash to desktop every now and again it's perfectly playable on windows 8.1 with latest hardware.
I remember the original being buggy as hell and I was never able to get very far until I encountered a game breaking bug, this doesn't seem to be the issue anymore.
oh, one other thing, had to limit it to one core to stop horrible juddering.