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So I used to play AOE on my mac some time ago. I think I had the 'El Capitan' OS and I played it through Porting Kit, but now my MAC was upgraded to Catalina OS (10.15) and I can't play it anymore since Catalina is not supported with Porting Kit (yet). So does anyone has the Catalina OS and knows a way on how to play AOEII HD. Released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, it is the second game in the Age of Empires series. An expansion, The Conquerors, was released in 2000. The Age of Kings is set in the Middle Ages and contains thirteen playable civilizations. Age of Empires IV takes players on a journey through the ages as they command influential leaders, build expansive kingdoms, and fight some of the most critical battles of the Middle Ages. At the start of the Norman Campaign — just one of four campaigns available in Age of Empires IV — William of Normandy sets forth on the hard-fought road to conquer England and become it’s new king.
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What is Age of Empires? A very well known strategy game where you develop a civilization, fight with others and do campaigns. Released first by Microsoft, then ported to Mac. ageofempires_1_3_1.zip(158.95 MiB / 166.68 MB) System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9 / Zipped 1280 / 2014-04-14 / 8425ab2b1302176619b2a2f63cdb8ed1f42a368f / / AoE_v1.3.1.zip(988.62 KiB / 1012.34 KB) System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9 / Zipped 776 / 2014-04-14 / 134221da31646ab7de5dd3dd1b249af76d965bcf / / AoE.zip(427.79 MiB / 448.57 MB) System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9 / Zipped 745 / 2015-03-29 / 6f78e15fc557e684254b1370accdce340fbdc409 / / from Mega.Co.Nz(unknown size) 100 / 2015-11-14 / (Unavailable for external downloads) / / Age_of_Empires_Update_1.2.zip(826.25 KiB / 846.08 KB) / Zipped 34 / 2017-11-20 / ac0032a93f30476ec3c07861889e4945e786915b / / Age_of_Empires_update_1.3.sit(711.21 KiB / 728.28 KB) / compressed w/ Stuffit 42 / 2017-11-20 / 1cc06b37df3fcf0622be971aa82bf05c583bc1a8 / / aoe_user_campaigns.sit(5.5 MiB / 5.76 MB) / compressed w/ Stuffit 15 / 2017-11-20 / 3cfd2181356bc2271019658da32ba78a5de7e2d5 / / Architecture
From Mac OS 7.1 up to Mac OS 9.2 Compatibility notes There are 2 game files. The smaller (ca. 158MB) ZIP has a .toast image of data track, the 427MB ZIP has a complete BIN/CUE image. This last one contains an official soundtrack in CD-Audio form, but cannot be easily mounted in SheepShaver, if you have a physical Mac, you can probably burn it on a CD for it or read this article: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/articles/37-i-downloaded-something-that-contains-bin-cue-files-how-do-i-mount-this-under-mac-os-9- If you mount .toast image with Toast, the game still won't start because Toast has the bad habit of making mounted images writable and omitting files which don't have parts of it in filesystem. If this image is mounted with Virtual CD-DVD Utility (https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1616-virtual-dvd-rom-cd-utility, I tried 1.0d3 version) it works well. Emulating this? It should run fine under: SheepShaver |
I have written several times in the Parallels blog about my most favorite game franchise of all time: Age of Empires (Here, here, and here). Since Age of Empires is a Windows game, when I want to play it, I use a Windows virtual machine (VM) in Parallels Desktop – and that is why I write about Age of Empires here.
The last few years have seen a real resurgence in Age of Empires. (“There likely has never been a more vibrant community around this 21-year-old game,” said Jonathan Bolding). Newly released versions of Age of Empires I and Age of Empires II, called Definitive Editions, have fueled this resurgence and I have really enjoyed playing them on my Mac with Parallels Desktop. So, when I was asked if I would like to play the about-to-be-released new Age of Empires III Definitive Edition a few days before its release, I jumped at the chance. Age of Empires III has some major differences from its predecessors, and the new Definitive Edition adds two new cultures, Sweden and Inca. The two new home cities for these new cultures are shown in Figure 1.
We are proud to collaborate with Microsoft and officially support AoE III DE as a platform for playing this game on the Mac.
I used Age of Empires III Definitive Edition on two different Macs: a MacBook Pro and an iMac, both using the same Windows 10 VM. The machine specs and the VM settings are shown in Figure 2.
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As expected for any game with “Definitive Edition” in its name, the graphics have been dramatically improved. (Figure 3 and 4).
On both the MacBook Pro and the iMac, the Age of Empires III Definitive Edition game gave me the warning that it couldn’t detect sufficient video RAM (Figure 5).
Undoubtedly, this is because Parallels Desktop allocates video RAM for the VM out of Mac system memory and it will provide the video RAM that an app needs (Figure 6), but the game had no way of knowing this. This warning can be ignored, and I detected no issues related to video memory.
At first launch, Age of Empires III Definitive Edition also checks the performance of the hardware, and Figure 7 shows the result of this performance check on my iMac. Please note the CPU score of “Very High” and the GPU score of “Ultra High”.
Because my GPU was rated “Ultra High”, for the Age of Empires III Definitive Edition screenshots (Figure 3 and 4) and the game play video (Video 1), I set all the graphics options to their maximum settings. As you can see in the video, the game play was fine, and the game never froze or crashed.
Now I freely admit that the Macs I used were high-end Macs. I would not recommend that you try to play Age of Empires III Definitive Edition, for example, on a four-year-old MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM. The suggested minimum requirements for a Mac to run Age of Empires III Definitive Edition are:
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- Processor: Intel processor, Core i5, i7 or i9
- Memory: 16 GB or more
- Storage: SSD drive
- Graphics: AMD graphics card
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These are my first impressions of Age of Empires III Definitive Edition after a few days. I look forward to many more days of playing both Age of Empires III Definitive Edition and Age of Empires II Definitive Edition. Watch for another blog post in a couple of weeks.
Age of Empires III Definitive Edition is available now on the Microsoft Store and on Steam. It is $19.99 and is a 34GB download.
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