Tropico

What works

Everything works great! but info about upgrades to buildings: I think an alt-text or pop-up just doesn't appear.

What does not

fullscreen: you must emulate virtual desktop and set to 1280-1024.

And referrals to disk path don't work unless you insert the physical disk.

maybe it needs an .iso file to refer to; but I haven't figured out how to make one on a mac :)

Workarounds

What was not tested

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

Lovely game, great game engine, lots of jokes and challenging levels.

Installation

Nothing special to mind, simply run
$ WINEPREFIX=/path/to/Tropico/prefix wine /path/to/_setup/Setup.exe

Playing

You should cd into the installation directory, otherwise Tropico might fail with an empty error box. Therefore the invocation looks like (if you installed into the default directory):
$ cd /path/to/Tropico/prefix/drive_c/Program\ files/Troico && WINEPREFIX=/path/to/Tropico/prefix wine Tropico.EXE

No other settings are needed to become El Presidente.

• I haven't experienced #14987 so far when keeping to the how-to.
• The Gold version comes with a PDF of the official strategy guide (English), use it (it's on CD1, CD2 is only needed for installation).
• To stay longer in office in later games, play first the tutorials (the one accessible via »Tutorial« and the ones named »El Presidente's * day« (replace the * by something like first, second, third and so on)), because Tropico can be quite difficult the first time.
• The handbook might be a good (and entertaining, for that matter) reading too.