MOO on linux

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MOO on linux

#1 Post by dstjames »

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?

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#2 Post by Tyreth »

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/

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#3 Post by bhelyer »

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

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

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#5 Post by siron »

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

http://masteroforion2.blogspot.com/2006 ... guide.html
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#6 Post by freereign »

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.
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#7 Post by utilae »

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

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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).
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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.
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#10 Post by Flatline »

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.
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#11 Post by freereign »

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!
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#12 Post by vivianne »

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

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#13 Post by utilae »

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.

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