Application Details:
| Version: | 1.31 |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | |
| Votes: | 7 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.7.21 |
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What works
Singleplayer
What does not
nothing that was tested
Workarounds
What was not tested
Multiplayer
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Use a 32 bit wine prefix. Set the windows version to windows 95. To fix the mouse cursor use winetricks to set offscreen rendering mode to backbuffer (orm=backbuffer). The biggest issue with the game after that is the small resolution, as it is hard to see if you are using a virtual desktop.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | openSUSE 13.1 x86_64 | Jul 07 2014 | 1.7.21 | N/A | Yes | No | Gold | luke | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 09 2012 | 1.4-rc6 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 20 2011 | 1.3.30 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Hermann Höhne | |
| Show | Gentoo Linux | Aug 11 2011 | 1.3.21 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Apr 25 2011 | 1.3.17 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | Maquis196 |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
Although playing Moo2 on wine is possible, the game is best played on dosbox
It would be best if you patch the game using this; PATCH
The patch only provides an updated dos executable, and you can use the dosbox built in ipx to tcp/ip emulator for multiplayer (which is very quick for turn processing).
To put it in perspective, Moo2 on wine is silver rating, game would get platinum on dosbox.
Since Wine 0.9.16 there are serious input (mouse+keyboard) problems in several menus that make the game practically unplayable.
As a workaround, Wine you can compile Wine 0.9.15 yourself and use that version.
Due to a different bug, a virtual desktop has to be used when running Master of Orion 2 with Wine 0.9.15: Run "winecfg" and enable "Graphics/Emulate a
virtual desktop".
If the window is too small, it can be made fullscreen by starting Master of Orion 2, and then in a different shell "xrandr -s 640x480". The resolution can be changed back with "xrandr -s 0".
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by mike on Friday April 3rd 2009, 8:32
by mike on Monday March 30th 2009, 7:33
by Spiridon Louis on Sunday February 22nd 2009, 14:32
its crazy.. there are still guys like me playing this game hehe
by luke on Saturday January 10th 2009, 1:29
lordbrazen.blogspot.com/2005/01/download.html
Grab the unofficial mouse patch and apply it. It didn't fix the problem for me, but it made it way better, to an (almost?) playable level. YMMV
by Michael Downey on Friday January 9th 2009, 23:25
It's not great but it does work at least for me. I've played a few games all the way through now.
by Michael Downey on Monday January 5th 2009, 14:19
by Adrian on Wednesday January 7th 2009, 14:59
by Florian S on Friday October 17th 2008, 10:18
- hire a ship commander
- click on the leader button in the main screen
- click on the ship command button at the top
The above procedure under the same savegame does work with orion2.exe under dosbox, and with wine-1.0 (but of course the rest of the game doesn't work in wine-1.0)
by Dexter Riley on Thursday May 31st 2007, 23:29
by Iwan Pieterse on Friday April 6th 2007, 9:06
Mouse cursor still does not blank with 9.31, still stalls in menu selections, always when I add a new production to a base.
by Leslie on Tuesday September 27th 2005, 15:16
by dwandy on Saturday September 10th 2005, 19:34
I'm on FC4, using the most recent (20050830?) WINE, and MOO 1.31.
I've tried various setups, different resolutions.
Some crash.
Some I get no mouse movement.
I get the best success w/o a config file at all...
...anybody? help?