I don't see a moral quandry here, but you can always obtain the original game disks if you see fit. Thanks to open source, both Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty and its sequel, Dune 2000, can be played on Mac OS, natively and with some modern improvements.ĭisclaimer: By the letter-of-the-law, abandonware isn't 100% legal but there's no real legal vector to obtain these games, each over 2 decades old. I hoped Dune 2 or Dune 2000 would end up on a service like GOG.com but sadly, it hasn't. I've revisited via emulation a few times. I can't say I have an special affinity for the genre, as pretty much the only other RTSes I've played are the original Command and Conquer and Warcraft 2, but I always liked Dune: The Battle for Arrakis. I assume anyone who is reading this probably knows the place that Dune plays in gaming history, but it's largely considered the title that defined the genre of the real-time strategy (RTS) or the first real time strategy ( even if not entirely correct. I never played Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty on a PC, only the Sega Genesis port Dune: The Battle for Arrakis so it was news to me that you could play Dune II on MacOS. After installation the Portingkit will say the installation was done successfully.Every now and again, I get a hankering for retro gaming and it ends up on this blog. Now the Portingkit will automatically download and install Dune 2000. Simply download the Portingkit (if you don’t have it already) and go to the library –> server tab and select the “Dune 2000” game and click download. Dune 2000 didn’t really bring anything new into the RTS genre but it gave the fans of Dune II a chance to play an updated version of the game. It was programmed by Intelligent Games a UK company who created an entirely new engine for it. More info about that up here: ĭune 2000 is a remake to Westwood’s first RTS game Dune II.
Click “Play” to start the game! Have fun!Īlternatively there is also Parallels Desktop (a very easy to use Virtual Machine with Windows 11 (free trial of 14 days)) where the game will work fine as well. After installation of the game, “exit” the installer.Ĥ. Then in Porting Kit search the game on the library –> server tab and click install.ģ.
Get Porting Kit or Crossover if you don’t have it yet.Ģ. Feel free to use the application which fits you best or use a combination of the 3 apps.ġ. Check the homepage to search and for latest news! You can port games using Porting Kit (free), or the commercial (more professional software) Crossover or Parallels Desktop (a very easy to use Virtual Machine with Windows 11) both have a 14 day trial period. Feel free to check out the around 1200 other games on this website! This page contains information + tools how to port this game so you can play it it on your Mac just like a normal application.
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