NEW (or at the very least, newly rediscovered BigJon TPIR)..

[smashwhammy]

...version (sorry, i WANTED to fit that last word in, but character limits)

CLIFF NOTES: 

v7.12.7 found

released around Christmas of 2012

Yes, this is a version of the game that's gone missing from any major collections (including the big one over at the Internet Archive after its installer...

1. Got lost over time
   
2. Got Time-Locked (Jon put the installer on a timer, and 12 years-ish would be WAY beyond that expiration date)
   
3. I never thought about this particular version until i checked my past DMs on Deviant Art, where I sent a link to said installer to someone who was nice enough to send the files back for this particular version (I'd mention his name, but he'd rather stay anonymous in this instance)

This is also where the 1975 Rainbow Wheel and 2008 Purple Wheel themed wheel sets came from over at the thread for the mods for s46 TPIR, as the files for THIS version somehow had some of that stuff with it instead of the vanilla files (i replaced them before uploading to IA, though).

In any event, here's version 7.12.7 of BigJon's TPIR!

archive.org/details/bigjon-tpir-v-7.12.7

(note, i haven't had any luck trying to get "Power" to work with this one when it comes to speeding up the game via cheat code)

[tmann3x]

Thank you for sharing this, Whammy!

[smashwhammy]

to think, this had been sitting there in my Deviant Art Notes/DMs for nearly a dozen years after i sent it and I never thought to look back/check the link/try the install/ask the guy for the files