Hey this is interesting.
A completely noob thing to do probably but I downloaded the vfx v.1.19 packgage from that site and updated the WINVFX8.DLL to a newer one.
The old one has a time stamp of 1999 while the one available from that site has 2005 and a slightly larger file size.
http://www.thegleam.com/ke5fx/misc/vfx119.zip
The game seems to run just fine with the newer dll too. Maybe it could have some benefits?