FreeOrion

Howdy guys,

I've been trying to get MoO to work on my Macbook that's running 10.6.8 but I'm having a ton of trouble. My PC is down right now, so I can't just load it up on there. So far I've tried to use wine, a DOS emulator which was way too confusing, and "sheepsaver" which is a powerpc mac emulator except I needed a mac os9 install disc which I didn't have...

so I'm wondering if you guys have any solutions to getting MoO to work on my Mac. Should I just give up with the original and try to get the second one working?

Depending on how much RAM you have you could try to set up Windows in a virtual machine using VirtualBox (8GB of RAM recommended). Or you can try the Boot Camp road (less demanding on the RAM side, but you can't run both OS at the same time).

I think you can play the windows version of MoO1 on DosBox, but i haven't tried it.

I'm playing MoO2 with DosBox on my Mac 10.6.8. It works

Howdy,

Thanks for the responses! I could do bootcamp I guess, but then I'd have to download a copy of windows which is problematic as I live in rural Africa and my internet connection is about 56k. It takes me a week to download a new build of FreeOrion .

The DOSBox option sounds the most promising, so maybe I'll take a look at that again. I just can't really seem to figure it out. I've got a windows copy of MoO1. So I use the "mount c /applications/Master of Orion" command to give the Box a directory, right? Now I've got four .exe files inside my MoO folder, an instal.exe, ms-copy.exe, orion.exe, starmap.exe Which of these do I attempt to run first, and how? Also, will I be able to save a game through dosbox or will I have to start a new game every time I close the app?

Yeah, I'm not too good with all the super technical stuff, so if somebody could point me in the right direction and maybe give me some of the correct commands to use in DOSBox that'd be super cool! Should I just try to get MoO2 to work instead?


Thanks!

~Z

Boxer is a friendly Mac-style version of dosbox

http://boxerapp.com/

I recommend it rather than the regular version of dosbox

Thanks!

I didn't check out Boxer but I did get Dosbox working successfully after another couple hours of tinkering. Now I just have to figure out how to play MoO...

...and this forum is awesome.