• Age of Empires - Collector's Edition (International)
• English (UK) ¹⁾
• 32-bit

• Age of Empires
• Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome
• Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
• Age of Empires II: The Conquerors

• WIP

• openSUSE Tumbleweed (Xfce)
• Wine (old WoW64)

• https://archive.org/details/age-of-empires-collectors-edition-international

• win32
• nt40

mkdir -p ~/'.wine' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' WINEARCH='win32' wine wineboot --init && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' winecfg /v 'nt40' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine REG ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' /v 'winemenubuilder.exe' /t 'REG_SZ' /d '' /f

udisksctl loop-setup --file ~/'Downloads/AOE.ISO'

udisksctl mount --block-device '/dev/loop0'

ln -s '/run/media/'$USER'/AOE' ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/dosdevices/y:'

• Default install folder ²⁾
• Full

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine 'Y:\AOE1\UK\AOESETUP.EXE'

• FULL

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine 'Y:\AOE1ROR\UK\AOESETUP.EXE'

• Default install folder ³⁾
• FULL

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine 'Y:\AOE2\UK\AOESETUP.EXE'

• Full Install

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine 'Y:\AOE2CONQ\UK\AOCSETUP.EXE'

sync && umount '/run/media/'$USER'/AOE'

udisksctl loop-delete --block-device '/dev/loop0'

rm -f ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/dosdevices/y:'

rm -f ~/'Downloads/AOE.ISO' ~/'Desktop/Age of Empires Expansion.lnk' ~/'Desktop/Age of Empires II.lnk' ~/'Desktop/The Conquerors.lnk' && sync

• Fixes random black screens and flicker ⁴⁾

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine REG ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D' /v 'renderer' /t 'REG_SZ' /d 'gdi' /f

• WIP (manual commands done)
• Likely only RoR and Conq launchers with base games on right-click

mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft' && ee ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft 3.3.5.desktop' && sed -i -e 's/'CHANGEME'/'$USER'/g' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft 3.3.5.desktop' && update-desktop-database --quiet ~/'.local/share/applications'

xfce4-panel -r

• wrestool

mkdir -p ~/'.wine/Icons' && wrestool --output=$HOME/'.wine/Icons/WoW-335-256.png' --extract --name='__GDF_THUMBNAIL' --raw ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Wow.exe'

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' winecfg

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' winetricks

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' regedit

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wineserver --kill

• Limit=200 might only apply to Multiplayer games ⁵⁾

cd ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires/Empires.exe' NoStartup MidiMusic 1024 Limit=200

cd ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires/EMPIRESX.EXE' NoStartup MidiMusic 1024

cd ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires II' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires II/EMPIRES2.EXE' NoStartup 1024

cd ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires II/age2_x1' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires II/age2_x1/age2_x1.exe' NoStartup NOSC 1024

gio open gio open ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires'

gio open ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires II'

tar -cvzf ~/'Downloads/'$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%s)'-AoE1-Saves.tar.gz' -C ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires' 'savegame'

tar -xvzf ~/'Downloads/'*'-AoE1-Saves.tar.gz' -C ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires' 'savegame'

• SC55_zzdenis_v0.5.sf2
• TODO: Demo MIDI files for AoE2 + add MidiMusic

sudo zypper install 'fluidsynth'

fluidsynth --audio-driver='pipewire' --sample-rate '48000' ~/'Projects/LostCity-225-EngineTS/ext/SC55_zzdenis_v0.5.sf2'

fluidsynth --audio-driver='pipewire' --sample-rate '48000' '/usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2'

cd ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition' wine explorer /desktop='AoE1x_RoR','1024x768' ~/'.wine/Age of Empires Collectors Edition/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires/EMPIRESX.EXE' NoStartup MidiMusic 1024