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Has anyone gotten MOO or MOO 2 to run under linux with wine?

I'm a linux newb but when I tried to run moo it locked up my PC.

Anyone have any luck?

What are you using to run it?

You may try dosbox. I think I've had MOO2 running in Linux before, but I can't remember what I used.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

Well, I can't comment on Master of Orion 2, but the original works a treat on Dosbox, sound included (running on Debian Etch).

MOO2 runs fine under a QEMU virtual machine with Windows 98 as the guest OS.

We have several linux users who use DOSBox without any problem:

http://masteroforion2.blogspot.com/2006 ... guide.html

I run both MoO and MoO2 perfectly using DOSBox. For MoO2 you need to run Orion2.exe, not Orion95.exe (which is for Win95 and results in a WINE crash). MoO is so old it doesn't run in WINE. Like I said, both run great using DOSBox.

I run Master Of Orion 2 no problem in Windows XP. I think I have some magical windows 95 version.

Moo2 runs fine in linux with wine, you just need to activate in winecfg "Emulate virtual desktop" (which is a bit annoying 'cause it will probably break other apps, like for example civ4).

utilae I have the same version, and I do occasionally run that on WinXP (runs faster, but then I have to run Windows, which is not the purpose of this thread). Running it in Wine, even with emulate virtual desktop, crashes.

I'm running it without a problem. Remember to mount your MoO2 CD/ISO image (I use the latter).

The only thing I had to change was setting the Emulate Virtual Desktop flag, and put a desktop size of 800x600. I had to change for Civ4 the vertex shader support stuff, but it is not used by MoO2, and anyway it works with both configurations... I run Ubuntu 7.10 and my wine version is 0.9.46.

I run Ubuntu 8.04 Beta and wine 0.9.58

I copied all the files to my computer so I don't have to have the CD. Which was fortunate because last night I accidentally stepped on it and it cracked in half! Oh well, I run it perfectly in DOSBox, and the important thing is that it runs!

Flatline wrote:Moo2 runs fine in linux with wine, you just need to activate in winecfg "Emulate virtual desktop" (which is a bit annoying 'cause it will probably break other apps, like for example civ4).

Hello,

Wow! Its nice to hear that their are games that compatible to Linux with the use of wine. Thanks the information.

See yah around.

Would you believe it!!!

My only good (working in win xp) copy of Moo2 was stolen from me lol.

Hmmm, vivianne you are unusually positive.