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Back to my blog, it’s about running Caesar III on my MacBook Air 2012 13″ via CrossOver.
Caesar III is one of my faviourite games during university. (Sorry, I used a crached version at that time. And it’s still in one of my hard disks, just haven’t played it for years.)
I tried Caesar IV several years ago, but I don’t like the 3D in that game.
Caesar III only has windows version.
Last week, I got a deal, CodeWeavers: Flock The Vote: 2012, a free CrossOver for Mac and Linux.
First application which I want to run, Caesar III, popped up in my mind. Googled “CrossOver Caesar III” and got this page WHAT RUNS: Caesar III, looks like it’s possbile. Then I found some people is using GOG version.
What’s GOG? Good Old Games
It’s only $5.99 and digital downloadable version! I bought it.
But I can’t run it successfully at the first time. The display is garbled after running it. But sound is ok, and ESC could trigger the Quit dialog, the dialog works.
I gave up at that night. And posted a thread in forum.
After checking my thread for days, didn’t get any reply.
Last night, got some spare time after my daughter went to sleep. I found an irc channel for CrossOver, irc.freenode.net/#crossover .
Haha, got some suggestions from Axylus.
Remove the current installed CrossOver and Caesar III:
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$ rm -rf /Applications/CrossOver.app $ rm -rf ~/Applications $ rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.codeweavers.CrossOver* $ rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver |
Then install CrossOver, and Caesar III(use Windows98 bottle).
Before running the game, Configure->Manage Bottles, select “setup_caesar_3.exe” in left, and choose “Control Panel” in right, choose “Wine Configuration”, and click “Launch Selected Item”. In “Graphics” tab, check “Emulate a virtual desktop”, Desktop size could be 800×600 and 1024×768, but for 1024×768, you should also enter the game to set it in Options->Display Settings.
It works this time! (though it’s not in full-screen mode.)
I was back to 1998!
Some other tips for CrossOver: