Master of Orion 2

The classic game Master of Orion. How to: 1. Download (DOH!) 2. Unrar 3. Burn/mount with your favourite software. 4. Play Enjoy.

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rizotherat (2008-09-18)

Long time ago ... :)
Great game,keep them alive, thx mate!

painful..rectal..itch (2008-09-18)

P.S. might need DOSBOX to run, especially under Vista. Great upload!

Nohg (2008-12-11)

Any info on that DOSBox setup?

murl (2009-03-23)

Anyone know how to set up a lan game between a vista comp and xp?

muhein2000 (2009-12-01)

For Multiplayer: use ipxnet functionality of dosbox. Google for: "ipxnet dosbox"

Micuardo (2010-09-21)

How do this work in Vista. I have tried dosbox, but it only says that don't work under dos! Help me somebody??!!

p00li3k3n (2010-10-04)

How do you get this to work on window 7 with Daemon tools lite?

leechoid (2010-10-05)

This game will not run on Vista or Windows 7.
This torrent's instructions are non functional. I have yet to get this to work. There are two methods of install:
INSTALL.EXE: The DOS installer.
SETUP.EXE: The Windows95 installer.
If using SETUP.EXE
After install the executable is ORION95.exe, a Windows 95 program. It expects DirectX 2.0. Running this on Win7 with DirectX 11 fails to run, even in compatability mode for Win95. Out of the box the installed copy of the game can't find DPLAY.DLL. If you download it and drop it in the game dir, the game will run and you can hear music, but can't see anything, the graphics don't draw. Also tried on Vista, same deal.
If using INSTALL.EXE
The installer will fail to run in windows saying "This system does not support fullscreen mode. Press 'close' to terminate". There is no easy or workaround I have found for this, and from what I have read none exists.
If running INSTALL.EXE from within DOSBOX, the following message is shown:
"Message #1 in jimtext.lbx too long."
So its not functional unless you are on XP or below I think.

leechoid (2010-10-05)

*GETTING IT WORKING*
My config is Windows7 in a Parallels Virtual Desktop on MAC OS X. Here is how I got this to work:
1) Download Daemon Tools Lite and install into Windows
2) Mount the game image using Daemon Tools, right click the taskbar icon and choose Orion2.cue from this torrent.
3) Note the drive letter assigned to the Orion2 CD when you mount it.
4) Download and install DOSBOX inside Windows (in Windows, not in MAC OS X or whatever your main OS is).
5) Create directory C:\MOO2 in Windows
6) launch DOSBOX in Windows
7) In DOSBOX type "mount r: e:\" where r: is any drive letter that is not taken and e:\ is the drive daemon tools mounted for the game
8) In DOSBOX type "mount s: c:\MOO2" where s: is any drive letter that is not taken
9) In DOSBOX "r:"
10) In DOSBOX type "install"
12) You will get the installer, install to drive s: (the one mapped to c:\MOO2)
13) After the installer completes the sound config starts, either use autodetect (it should work) or choose Sound Blaster 16 / ADLIB for music and digital
14) Exit the installer.
15) Use CTRL-F12 to raise the emulation speed of DOSBOX to 15000-ish cycles, from around 3000
16) s:
17) cd mps
18) cd orion2
19) orion.exe, the game should be running now.
Hope that helps some old schoolers who know how effing awesome this game is and who still want to play it. Peace.
Note:
I tried installing this under Windows and then copying out the installed dir and trying to launch in DOSBOX for MAC OS X. It fails, saying it can't find all the install files.

leechoid (2010-10-05)

Oh BTW its orion2.exe, not orion.exe for the last step. Whoops.

leechoid (2010-10-05)

Oh BTW its orion2.exe not orion.exe for the last step.

jack6251 (2010-12-30)

Great guide to making it work in DosBox. I've followed it perfectly and can actually get it to run in DosBox from your guide. But from the point where you're saying to Exit the installer, I get lost and can't make the orion2.exe work on its own, to play the game I have to always repeat your guide up to the point of configuring the sound, then follow what DosBox says (type in orion2 to run it) and it works.
Can you make your last bullet points clearer please?

orion1394 (2011-02-04)

i was trying to do these tips but found another way

all you have to do is copy and rename a file in system32

arckangel6983 (2011-10-10)

I never had to do anything other than adjust compatibility to get this game running on Vista....All you should need to do and this should be a no brainer... Run it as admin

Allan53 (2012-01-05)

I don't know about you guys, but I'm running XP and I simply cannot get this to install. I've tried every exe, I've tried running through the autorun, I've even tried this fabled DosBox. No dice. Does it just not like XP? I've also tried compatability adjusting

Allan53 (2012-01-06)

Wait, worked it out. For some reason it refuses to run the install thingy if VLC is also running

dardack (2012-06-26)

OK really simple without DosBox. For Windows 7 64bit. Get daemon tools lite. Open the .cue file in this torrent with it. This will mount a virtual CD.
Select All inside the CD and copy to some folder (say c:moo2).
Open Moo2, right click in explorer->new->new text document. Rename to orioncd.ini Edit this file and put in the directory where you copied the files to (ie c:moo2 spaces may not be allowed as this game is older, no clue).
Then go to the directx folder, find dplay.dll, copy and paste into the moo2 directory (ie c:moo2).
Right click orion95.exe, click compatibilty. Change to Windows 95, run in 256 colors, run in 640x480.
Bam double click orion95.exe and working like a charm.
TYVM for this torrent. My CD was scratched a few years ago, and just decided to play some old school stuff.

xhizors (2012-07-30)

Wow, was not expecting such a fast download. Thanks a bunch op.
Windows 7 64-bit. Followed dardack's idea, but the colors looked bad on my computer so I just installed on DOSBox and it's perfect. If you not sure how to use DOSBox, follow leechoid's little tutorial, it's good.

Iamgr8 (2012-08-08)

So im kinda nooby. How do u unrar. ive played this game b4 and cnt find the disc copy i had. love this effin game. i know of a few cheats on it as well. and i never was able to play online against people