Age of Mythology: The Titans
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Age of Mythology: The Titans is a real-time strategy computer game expansion pack of Age of Mythology. It was developed by Ensemble Studios and released in September 2003.
The expansion adds a fourth civilization to the game, the Atlanteans, and 3 new Gods, plus many new units, buildings and god-powers. It also included many new features, such as auto-queueing (allows training of units indefinitely as long as there are sufficient resources), and the ability to summon a Titan, a powerful, gargantuan, godlike being that forms the game's focal point. –Wikipedia
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As of jan 09:
This Software is listed in the Official Wine Application Database
- Winehq AppDB entry version 1.0. Rated Gold with recent versions of wine. With one maintainer. Needs more maintainers to share the work and needs submissions with an even more recent version of wine.
- Winehq AppDB entry version 1.1. Rated Platinum with version 1.1 of wine. With one maintainer. Needs more maintainers to share the work and needs submissions with a more recent version of wine.
- Winehq AppDB entry Gold Version. With one maintainer. Needs more maintainers to share the work and needs submissions with a more recent version of wine. Rated Silver with wine 1.1.2. The maintainer has done well with A number of bugs have been identified and linked to this software. Can you confirm these bugs?
- Winehq AppDB entry The Titans: Version 1.03] With 4 maintainers. One submission Rated it as platinum for RC1.Needs more submissions with a more recent version of wine.
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[edit] Installing
Admin - these install comments are about a very old version of wine and the application database lists more recent installs - The application database would be the first place to check. In Aug 08 wine user post noted: I'm pretty sure copying ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll to wine system32 is a really bad idea. I would advice against doing that.
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS wine 0.9.18
Note: This instructions were written using Age of Mythology Gold Edition, details may differ for the stand-along expansion CD.
Status: Works with a little help
Before installation mfc42.dll must be placed in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32, which can be obtained from C:\WINDOWS\system32 if you have a Windows partition. Without this file the product key will fail to verify.
To begin installation the following must be typed at the command line:
wine /mnt/cdrom0/AOMSetup.Exe
Where /mnt/cdrom0/ is your CD drive.
Either Express Install or Install can be chosen, both work without any issues.
Setup will stop at 35% and ask for the second CD, insert the second CD into the same drive the first was in and once it is mounted click OK and the installation will continue as normal.
[edit] Running the application
Status: Mostly works, playable, must use 0.9.18
This game works the best under wine 0.9.18, in 0.9.17 all the textures are black making it unplayable, and in 0.9.16 the water flickers if the graphics are set to high.
To run the game 4 files must be copied to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32, ntoskrnl.exe, bootvid.dll, hal.dll, and kdcom.dll, all of which can be found in C:\WINDOWS\system32.
Before player the 1.03 patch must be installed, then a No-CD patch must be installed or the game will not run.
To launch the game this must be types at the command line:
wine "/home/[username]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Mythology/aomx.exe" +noIntroCinematics
It is recommended to use the +noIntroCinematics as the title videos do not display properly.
In-game, the campaigns do not work, the game crashes after the intro videos. Single player works fine. Multiplayer over a LAN between a Windows computer and a Linux computer does not work, With the Windows one as the host the Linux one sees the game but cannot connect, the other way around, the Windows one does not even see the Linux one.
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