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Apr 16, 2002
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This is the extent of my geekiness, but if anyone uses Linux, then try running it under wine (windows emulator). It no longer crashes at the victory points after-game screen (which it sometimes does on Win2000/XP). Also, the sound works fine and I can get the proper refresh rate working here (for some reason it defaults to 60hz when I run the game in windows).

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Anyway, this was with Mandrake 8.2 and was purely a curiosity for anyone who was wanting to try the game on a different medium.

There's a good version of WINE at www.transgaming.com
 
thanks for the info :)
 
The exit crashes are due to some problem I have with direct x refusing to shutdown properly..

Doesn't surprise me the least that the Linux emulation works better..
 
Originally posted by Joe000000
Does Europa 1 work in Linux too?

with the emulator, it should work.
 
EU2 works as well with wine-emulator from winehq.com, which is free. However, I encountered some problems, at least till now i can`t fix it (but my experience with linux is currently less than 24 hours :)) I can`t use keyboard in game, which means no pausing and no cheating (an advantage after all ;)) further i must miss the great music.
Strange enough Civ2 does not work with this emulator :(