Master of Orion 1 + 2 on GOG

tanstaafl wrote:

I actually bought the strategy guide for Master of Orion back in the day.

And Master of Magic! Yes please!

(Whatever happened to SimTex anyway?)

I've got the master of magic strategy guide, love it. I still read it sometime.

Nightmare wrote:

; however, it is an almost 20 year old game at this point.

You're killin' me here, Smalls. Killin' me.

I still have the disk, the box, and all the manuals that came with them. But if I installed this right now I wouldn't have to worry about waiting for Civ5 to lose my job.

BadKen wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:
BadKen wrote:
Desram wrote:

Is this any more likely to run on windows 7 than an install from the disc?

I just installed it. It includes DosBox, and I didn't have any trouble starting a game. When I tried to run the Windows 95 version that I bought direct from Atari, I had all kinds of problems.

What I'd like to know is how to stop it from using the full screen on a 16x9 display. It looks all stretched out. Catalyst 10.3 doesn't have a "preserve aspect ratio" setting like the ForceWare NVIDIA drivers do.

If it's running in DosBox, I'm guessing there'll be some DosBox config files you can tinker with.

Yep, I found the config file (named "dosboxMOO2.conf" oddly enough) and changed the line

fullresolution=original

to

fullresolution=1920x1080

and now DOSbox renders it with vertical bars on the sides. No more stretchy aliens!

Thank you for this fix!

Oh man, once the game started this was like going through old pictures or something the nostalgia was so intense. I feel like I'm back in the crappy room I was in when I first played this game long ago.

You filthy, filthy enablers.
Just the other day I had a sudden urge to play MOO2, but I couldn't find my old copy. But now it's easily available for $6? I guess I know what I'm doing tonight.

Well, I do still have my MoO2 CD (and by copying files to the install folder, there's no need to have it in the drive to play). And looking at the MoO1 screenshots, I'm leaning against it not getting $6 worth of play from me. I think I'll put that towards an eventual purchase of Distant Worlds instead.

Crap, I don't have time to play these. I mean, I'm going to buy the brothers MoO, but they are going to languish unloved for a while. And unloved games piss me off.

Slacker1913 wrote:
Nightmare wrote:

however, it is an almost 20 year old game at this point.

God I feel old.

And I just bought it, even though I still have the original disc of Orion 2.

Same here, totally pulled the trigger on this one.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Well, I do still have my MoO2 CD (and by copying files to the install folder, there's no need to have it in the drive to play). And looking at the MoO1 screenshots, I'm leaning against it not getting $6 worth of play from me. I think I'll put that towards an eventual purchase of Distant Worlds instead.

You are a soul-less monster...

Nightmare wrote:

You are a soul-less monster...

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This is awesome. That's all I could keep saying when I fired this up. This is one of the great games that I missed out on in the early years of PC gaming, and now I get another chance. Hats off to GoG for bringing back the classics and making them playable on today's rigs.

And thanks to whoever posted the 1920x1080 fix for the conf. That is a wonderful fix.

Did the music get updated? Surely it didn't sound this good back in '95 or whenever it was. I would have thought it would be the cheesy old midi files (or maybe it is and the X-Fi is pretty good at playing midi?)

Even after all this time, 4x strategy games just don't get any better than MOO2.

Nightmare wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

Well, I do still have my MoO2 CD (and by copying files to the install folder, there's no need to have it in the drive to play). And looking at the MoO1 screenshots, I'm leaning against it not getting $6 worth of play from me. I think I'll put that towards an eventual purchase of Distant Worlds instead.

You are a soul-less monster...

Begone! Quintin is wise. His thoughts are full of unicorns and rainbows. As such you should subscribe to his newsletter. Now!

Nimcosi wrote:

Begone! Quintin is wise. His thoughts are full of unicorns and rainbows. As such you should subscribe to his newsletter. Now!

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Man it was only a week ago I gave up on trying to get my original MoO2 working on Windows 7 x64. This is so tempting!

I dusted off my old old box of MoO1 (copyright says it's from 1993, that's both a whole other century and millenium) seeing this and man, the manuals from that time are really something. There are also these small plastic discs enclosed, saying IBM PC High Density, but no CD, I wonder what they are for...

/nostalgia wave off

Blackstep wrote:

Man it was only a week ago I gave up on trying to get my original MoO2 working on Windows 7 x64. This is so tempting!

Just another confirmation, but the game runs perfectly for me on W7 x64.

garion333 wrote:
Blackstep wrote:

Man it was only a week ago I gave up on trying to get my original MoO2 working on Windows 7 x64. This is so tempting!

Just another confirmation, but the game runs perfectly for me on W7 x64.

Filthy.

mwdowns wrote:
garion333 wrote:
Blackstep wrote:

Man it was only a week ago I gave up on trying to get my original MoO2 working on Windows 7 x64. This is so tempting!

Just another confirmation, but the game runs perfectly for me on W7 x64.

Filthy.

??? I'm pretty sure I was making it clear that I was reiterating a point that had already been made. So that makes me a skimmer how?

Btw, I meant the GoG version runs fine, not the disc version.

maybe he means you're a filthy enabler giving him another reason to purchase it.

Markly wrote:

maybe he means you're a filthy enabler giving him another reason to purchase it.

I'm pretty sure this is the case.

Markly wrote:

maybe he means you're a filthy enabler giving him another reason to purchase it.

Ahhhhh. Good point.

Isn't this a no brainer, though? At $6 for both games. Come on people. This is gaming heaven.

Now I think I've earned the filthy enabler tag.

garion333 wrote:
Markly wrote:

maybe he means you're a filthy enabler giving him another reason to purchase it.

Ahhhhh. Good point.

Isn't this a no brainer, though? At $6 for both games. Come on people. This is gaming heaven.

Now I think I've earned the filthy enabler tag. ;)

Double filthy!

I spent all night last night diving back into MOO2 and holy crap is that game ever still amazing. It nailed the 4x formula perfectly, it's no wonder nothing that has come since has lived up to it.

I ended up getting spanked when some dastardly race kept stealing tech from the most powerful military race on the map but framed me for it. They did this a good dozen times until the victim got sick of me "stealing" his tech (which again I was being framed for) and declared war on me, launching a massive invasion on damn near every system I owned. Complete slaughter but oh so fun.

Build spies!

garion333 wrote:
Markly wrote:

maybe he means you're a filthy enabler giving him another reason to purchase it.

Ahhhhh. Good point.

Isn't this a no brainer, though? At $6 for both games. Come on people. This is gaming heaven.

Now I think I've earned the filthy enabler tag. ;)

But I already have MoO2!

That CD is somewhere around here...

Wow, I never even realized MOO had music. I used to play it on a laptop. I realized it had color because I used to hook it up to a VGA monitor, but didn't have an audio out on my laptop.

And hey--is that Mick Uhl in the credits? Like, the Avalon Hill game guy Mick Uhl?

I think I bought got both games twice already along with master of magic and xcom ufo defense. I bought MoM, Moo1 , individually, then a sci fi pack(for TFTD) that includes XCOM (also got ufo twice) ,Moo,MoM.I've bought MOO2 once in the USA and then again when I returned to Israel.

Damn, this whole thread makes me smile. Brothers.
And Veloxi, I was just about to retire my sig. I haven't seen you post in a while.

Favorite mid-tech technology?
Favorite tree or branch?
Can we talk?

Fav mid-tech is terraforming, if that counts as mid-tech.
Favorite branch is Biology.

My general strat is to snipe systems with lots of planets even if they are crappy. I'd rather have 4 crappy planets in a sysem then one good one. (within reason) Use diplomacy to keep aggressive races away long enough to tech your industrial and bio (auto factoies/robo miners/terraforming) you can turn what you thought were really crappy planets into better than average ones. Having less systems with more planets per system also make it much easier to defend early/mid game as opposed to being strung out across the map.

Purchased, downloaded, and installed here at work. I am not working today, I'm playing MoO2. Seriously, that game is one of my single greatest favorites of all time. I literally lost count of how many hours, no, days I have lost playing it.