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Architecture: 68k PPC
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares
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Download MasterOfOrionII1.4.0.sit_.bin
(197.97 MB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9
Download MasterOfOrionUpdater.zip
(1.37 MB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9
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Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares (MOO2) is a 4X turn-based strategy game set in space, designed by Steve Barcia and Ken Burd, and developed by Simtex, who developed its predecessor Master of Orion. The PC version of the game was published by MicroProse in 1996, while the Apple Macintosh version was published a year later by MacSoft in partnership with MicroProse. The PC version is still on sale as a download, and is still played online.
Master of Orion II won the Origins Award for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game of 1996, and was well received, although reviewers differed about which aspects they liked and disliked. It is still used as a yardstick in reviews of more recent space-based 4X games.
Victory can be gained by military or diplomatic means. Major elements of the game's strategy include the design of custom races and the need to balance the requirements for food, production, cash and research. The user interface, which is mainly mouse-based but includes keyboard shortcuts, provides a central screen for most economic management and other screens that control research, diplomacy, ship movement, combat and warship design. (Wikipedia)
PC version is still available for official download:
http://www.atari.com/us/games/moo2_battle_anta/pc?dd=1
Architecture: 68k PPC
Minimum system requirements: 68040 33MHz, 16MB RAM, 256 colors, Mac OS 7.1
Comments
I've found the Mac Version on a russian Torrent site: http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1715786
I've downloaded it successfully (3 times on different computers, 1 of it a Mac), but can't open the image file. If there's someone else interested in getting this game, could you please try if you can open that image? I think i'm maybe just not using the right software, but OS 9/X, Toast or StuffIt don't do the trick, neither does any Linux image mounting or unarchiving tool.
this is one of the first games i ever played that i really liked, and it is still my favorite strategy game. It is loads better than any other strategy game i have played, easy to learn but hard to master. A great game for anyone. it has great graphics and sounds and it is the most fun strategy game i have EVER played.
I have the game on cd and it will not work very well on ANYTHING faster than 333mgz. Even on a 400 mgz it lurches and jerks. i am running a 333mgz ibook with mac osx 10.3.9 and classic environment. Same on the 400 mgz system and the performance is lots different. the patch will fix some problems though.
I've provided links to an updater; it's possible it might fix some of the problems people were having.
I have the same problem on my iMac G4 - on a G3 iBook it worked flawlessly though. I suppose there is nothing to do against these hickups except getting a PPC 604 (or something similiar) Mac ... (did you try if maybe activating or deactivating virtual memory helps avoiding the problem? Or using G3 Throttle to slow down the CPU?)
Argh, really wanted to play this one but seems to crash randomly on a g3 - usually when i click on 'buy' or 'change' in colony view, and it doesn't seem to care which optimised version i use, it doesn't prevent the crashes
PC version abandonware is here
http://www.abandonware-paradise.org/abandonware-Master_Of_Orion_2_Battle...
One note: I've been playing this game on various old macs now and I can say that whenever a G4 cpu was involved, it became rather unstable und would often freeze the whole system. Especially in later rounds, when big fleets battle eachother. Works much better on a G3 processor, so if you have the opportunity...
Well then kudos to you, Attila. Really appreciate it. Been sitting until 2 am last night, building up my klackon empire. Felt like being 17 years again, when I would spend nights playing moo2. Definately one of the best games of all times (and my fiancé hates it already
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Actually you can thank me for uploading.
But thank Carl too, because he's a big contributor in general.
Thank you so much for uploading Carl! Been waiting for this one for years! Plays fine under Classic (10.4 Tiger)
BTW, this doesn't like to be installed on secondary disk partitions. Install it on the first partition, with your System folder, and if you want you can copy it elsewhere and delete the original. The installer makes some kind of path name error otherwise.
I have this on CD, but the CD is too scratched to play, but now I can enjoy it again