I tried again copying and pasting your suggestion into EARLY.TXT, but the result was the same: no EARLY period available as a choice on the menu.
So, I agree with you: in version 1.00 faction colours have to be declared elsewere ... I think (and hope) that they are not inside the executable, because the logical structure used by the program to acquire game parameters and to translate everything into different languages denotes a very high level of flexibility, despite the year of production.
I detected an empty directory named "CustomGames", and the unique text file inside it says: "Contains the saved customgame configuration files created by the player. Each startpos has its own directory, containing the custom game files relevent for that startpos only".
This is an interesting information, links could be useful if you have some.There are v1 compatible mods out there that added factions, so I'm sure there is a way to do it...
Hopefully RUL - Masaniello
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