Age of Empires over wine
 

Dear all,

I'm trying to run Age of Empires using wine-0.9.30 on Ubuntu (uname -a: Linux chiccodoro 2.6.17-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Feb 1 19:52:28 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux).

Installing worked fine. After installation, I was told to install DirectX, too, from the same CD, as it was not found. I confirmed and succeeded.

Then I tried first to run it with
wine /path/to/Empires.exe, which won't work, as others on this forum also seem to have experienced.

Thereafter I tried to run aoesetup from my cd, where I can choose to play the installed game. The setup seems to load the DirectX I previously installed. Unfortunately the text's are black instead of white and unreadable. Also, when I am playing a game, on the bottom right corner, where a little map of the world is displayed, the map simply stays black all over.

The other problem is, I cannot activate sound output. This might be a problem with my audio controller (00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)), which already caused some problems in ubuntu at other times. E.g., i must run realplay using aoss in order to hear the music realplay plays...

In one old thread I read about winex. Is this really necessary? I don't like to register on any website only to download some package.

Cheers, Daniel

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1007

I ended up installing vmware server and then installing my old Windows 98 to run AoE. It works okay, it's a bit sluggish at times...

Someone should make an AOE like game for Linux. That would be great.

Absolutely!

I've actually wanted to write a AoE clone for a while now.

Would anyone else be interested in it? (playing or coding?)

Of course :D
But I've never programmed a game before, but I always wanted to learn it :) I'm not (yet) a C/C++ programmer, but i've got 3 years experience in PHP ;) and we are learning some C in the school, so i'm not absolutely a noob ^^

Sry for my english

Me and my brother are working on a AOE clone but it is in its very early stages. To take a phrase from 3D realms it will be finished "When its Done".

See http://freeempires.yoll.net and yes it is hosted on Linux :)

Tell me how to support you, and I'll do my best :)

Do you know anyplace where I can get AOE Like music (Preferable like Age of Empires 1 and Rise of Rome)? That would be a Nice Help. Also what Distro do you use. You could be a tester.

If you have any ideas how to help please say :)

Your programming skills are a little incompatible though.

Also if any body wants to Make there own AOE clones go ahead. They may turn out better than the One me and my brother are making. ;)

There is nothing wrong with your English here :)

Nice, looks like you guys have a good start. Tell me if you need any coding help.
Im very good with C/C++ and AI. Things like path-finding, finite-state machines, and such.

Thx... maybe not yet ;)
By the way... does anyone speak German?

I'm very interested in C/C++ but its a little hard to learn it without any human help.
Primarily i have problems with all these data types and their handling.

Let's see what the school lessons are of use... ;)

The Launguage we are makeing Free Empires is in GAMBAS. There might be some use for C/C++ developers though :)

I have the Age of Empires music files coverted to .wav and .mp3 format if you need them. It's been 3 years since I've done any programming but I can still help by giving you the music files.:)

That would be nice but is it legal to use them for our game considering that Age of Empires is published by Microsoft? :confused: