https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35721
--- Comment #13 from Linus Unnebäck linus@folkdatorn.se ---
The game crashed neither with version 1.0 nor with version 1.2 on my end. I might add, that I used a 32-bit prefix in both cases with the Windows version set to Windows 7 in at least the 1.2 case (I do not remember what was set in the 1.0 one).
I tried installing, patching and running the game in a WINEARCH=win32 prefix, but got the same crash :(
I'm on macOS 10.13.4 btw, which system are you running?
In an effort to try and track down the original regression I used Wineskin to try some different versions of wine. This was all tested with Black & White 1, patched to 1.20 using the official patch.
1.7.5 - Works 1.7.6 - Works 1.7.7 - Works 1.7.8 - Works 1.7.9 - Works 1.7.10 - Works 1.7.11 - Works 1.7.12 - Crashes
I'm currently trying to build wine from source to track down the commit, but I cannot get the building to work :(