For higher resolutions, I think that Gavin has taken them into account, especially because the maps will be so much larger than they could ever hope to have been in BOTF1.
1024x768 or above will likely be the 'standard' resolution, but don't worry if your monitor can't handle that, because some lower resolutions will also be supported. Iwulff (The guy who is developing the ingame help Database) has also told me that his latest update lowers the resolution of the Database to 800x600, since quite a few people (Including me) found it almost impossible to read the text at the original resolution!
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Gavin is definitely making the game work on Windows XP - he's developing it on an XP system, in fact. This means that DirectX 9 will likely be used instead of DirectX 6, although I don't know this for definite.
The game <should> still work on older systems, although he apparently isn't gonna test it on older systems - he's gonna leave it up to us to find out about any possible incompatibilities. (Which he may release patches for in the future, but that is up to him to decide)
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