[Bug 6086] Master of Orion 2 hangs as soon as mouse is moved

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6086

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--- Comment #74 from Christian Aßfalg  2011-02-04 08:39:00 CST ---
I'd like to offer a workaround/solution for playing MOO2: Use the DOS version
included in the latest official Patch with dosbox, not Wine.

I tried to play MOO2 on Ubuntu with wine-1.2.1 and ran into the bug. Thanks to
everybody for debugging it and thanks to Janosch Machowinski for creating the
bdiff Patch for MOO2.

Unfortunately, that did not work for me as I aparently did not use the same
Version as he did. Janosch, if you still follow this thread, and it is not too
much hassle, maybe you want to patch the following binary as well (though I
think it is not necessary any more):
53244deb787dad76a961121ad42e8521  Orion95.exe
This is the Orion95.exe from the latest official Patch:
c630dd2d92e1cec63078784d2322275c  moo2v131.zip (I've been using the English
version although my MOO2 is originally German. Works fine. Only hassle is that
the patch contains the files in upper case letters, while my MOO2 installation
is lower case, so files did not get replaced. I fixed this manually with proper
move commands. Not sure if this is necessary, try it and google for it if you
have problems with it...)

My solution for playing MOO2 after some research turned out to be the DOS
Version of MOO2 that is also included in this patch:
da0de07f9b2ec73a6c1686151f191979  orion2.exe
It can not be played with wine:
err:dosmem:DOSMEM_MapDosLayout Need full access to the first megabyte for DOS
mode
But: It works just fine using dosbox.

Since we have confirmed here that this is not really a Wine bug, and since MOO2
was originally a DOS game that only later got converted to Win95, maybe this is
the solution that makes the most sense, technically and pragmatically.
Philosophy aside (and I kinda agree that Wine should not fix this bug), I want
to play the game on Linux, and I personally don't really care if Wine or Dosbox
is the tool to do that. Also, there is a suprisingly active Community that
offers Mods, Guides and community Patches, but concentrates mostly on the DOS
Version since it can apparently be played better online (using Kali, google
it).