Age of Empires II: Gold Edition
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AOEII_Gold.toast_.sit (420.82 MB)
MD5: c62b9d8c070872685029ed3e640586d7 For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS X
age_of_empires_ii_nocd.to_.sit (62.23 KB)
MD5: 08b8557e577cde4b84bdf79cb280db55 For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS X
aoeii_1.0.5_update.sit (1.85 MB)
MD5: a9549a5b37b921eb673a1d46b837cf03 For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS X
aoe2_1.0.6_updater_us.zip (1.89 MB)
MD5: 0216d33454978364d89e6eb9208f9235 For Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6 - Mac OS X
Sequel to the original Age of Empires. The classic Mac release of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, also including "The Conquerors" expansion.
Rome has fallen, and the world is up for grabs! Build one of the most powerful civilizations of the Middle Ages into a flourishing empire in this best-selling, award-winning real-time strategy game. Raise your armies. Forge alliances. Grow a thriving market economy. Build wonders to stand the test of time.
— Microsoft
When it comes to vast, kingdom-spanning ambition, you can't do better than Microsoft's Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. Microsoft went all out to create this real-time strategy game, and it fairly hums with gorgeous graphics, sophisticated AI and challenging scenarios for the novice and experienced player alike.
— Amazon
The point of the game is to shepherd your fledgling civilisation to world domination, using war, trade and exploration. You start with the bare minimum to get going, and you've got to balance your people's needs with your desire to be a little Napoleon. The Age of Kings Gold Edition gives you a ton of new units and technologies to enrich your strategic options. Each scenario is placed accurately within history, but you're also free to create your own.
The multiplayer format is robust, allowing up to nine players to share a world. When battles commence, you can take control of every aspect of your workers and soldiers, sending them running for shelter in the town centre, ordering them to defend a watchtower, or setting their combat stance to aggressive for free-for-all sword smashing fun. When you're not fighting, find your idle peasants with a mouse click and send them back to work chopping trees, rounding up sheep, fishing or mining gold and stone.
As you acquire more resources, you can improve your soldier's gear and skills, start to trade more efficiently and make life better for everyone in your empire. You can choose from 13 groups to manage, from the Japanese to the Teutons and Franks. Each group has unique units and special characteristics, making this a game that changes every time you play it.
The Gold edition includes the Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion and will let players wage war on an epic scale with all new civilisations, unique units and technologies and campaigns based on the infamous conquerors such as Attila the Hun, El Cid.
GameRanger support: 1.0.5+
GameRanger crossplay: No.
A note about the downloads available above:
- First item on the internal server is the game CD
- Second item on the internal server is a NoCD image
- Third and fourth items are updaters
Architecture: PPC (Carbonized)
This is a Mac-only CD-ROM.
Requirements for install listed as:
G3/350 or faster (500MHz required for on-line play),
Mac OS 8.6 or higher (Carbonized for OS X),
Rage 128 or better video card,
128MB RAM,
and 750MB free hard disk space.
Note that requirements jump up when you apply the v1.0.6 patch, which requires OSX 10.3.9
Comments
Works excellent in my iMac G3 DV 400Mhz with Tiger (10.4). If someone wants to play with me on GameRanger just tell me
Who wants a play?
Make sure you have GameRanger!
Also (very important!!) if you have a recent computer/smartphone, Join these Discord Server!
• This one is an unofficial GameRanger Server (because the online Forum sucks): https://discord.gg/rYnCfs4
• This one is specific for Age of Empires II for Mac!! https://discord.gg/czevsG5
Please join them!
You can understand how important is we stay together. It’s fine also if you do not want to play at the moment. One day you will!!
Thanks! It runs well in Powermac G5 with OSX Tiger.
I can't seem to install this because when I hit the install button, a dialog box pops up and says "the item 'read me' cannot be found. Installation cannot continue." I've tried deleting the read me, copying it, everything. What am I doing wrong?
Noam,
I remember this happening when running SS in full screen. What I do is never let the intro run, simply by pressing enter a few quick times right after launching.
Anybody know why it won't show the cursor after a few minutes? (I'm running it on SheepShaver, so I expect glitches, but I do want to overcome them when I encounter them)
with, but the installation file is in the dvd
Easily in my top three favorite games - thank you for uploading and hosting! Made my week (month?).
I'm having it crash a fair amount running on a pre-intel MacBook (it's either quit on its own or I've been able to force quit). Any tips to get it running properly would be much appreciated.
In Mac OS 8 to 9, it runs without, or with CarbonLib required?
thanks again great game
Highly addictive game!
Runs perfectly in SheepShaver running OS9.0.4 (without the updater patch).
afraid so. You could try it in SheepShaver, without applying the v1.0.6 patch.
or buy an old G4 / dual G4 for $10.
That may well be the problem. I'm running OS X 10.8.4 on an intel mac. Is there no hope for me?
Are you on an Intel Mac ?
or OS X 10.5 or later ? This app is Carbonised, not Cocoa, so your hardware / OS may be too recent.
Do I need OS 9 in order to install this on my OS X? I tried to install AOE 2 1.0.6 using the updater, but it still tells me that it needs to be on PowerPC. Please help!
Replaced MU links with working links. Thanks to bertyboy for the disk image.
By far, this is my top rated game that I've downloaded from Macintosh Garden.
Yes, thank you.
Basically, this game is a carbonized type of game, to be runnable in Mac OS 8.6/9.x and Mac OS X (PowerPC), but to run the game natively on an Intel based Mac, you've to install the latest update, which is version 1.0.6
And a thanks for leaving thanks. If you have any success under emulation, please post details to help others.
I just wanted to leave a "Thank you" for uploading it.