Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares

What works

Installs and Runs, with music and sounds.

Single player games.

Hotseat games.

What does not

Certain "popup" windows inside the game cause the mouse motion to glitch unless the left-click is held down. (taxes and ship refit pages)

 The game will not exit, has to be killed manually and your normal screen resolution changed manually back from 640x480.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Online gameplay

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

The game not closing properly or setting the resolution upon termination isnt a major problem, I generally keep a terminal open with xrandr ready. SUPER: Rating changed to silver to conform with rating system

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".