How do I instal Directplay (for AOE II multiplayer)

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miknik981
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How do I instal Directplay (for AOE II multiplayer)

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Hi,

Please can someone assist me - I am a little clueless - and my 13 year old son and I will be most grateful as we haven't played the AOE since I switched from Windows 4 years ago!

I have succeeded to get Age of Empires working on Mac with Wine but can't get MULTIPLAYER to work.

I have read that: "To use this with multiplayer go to Wine -> Winetricks, and install directplay."

However, I can't find how to add DIRECTPLAY to Winetricks.

I've also seen this:
$ wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks
$ sh winetricks directplay

But don't know where to type that!! Sorry, but I'm very clueless when it comes to coding etc.



Many thanks Mike
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Re: How do I instal Directplay (for AOE II multiplayer)

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miknik981 wrote: I have read that: "To use this with multiplayer go to Wine -> Winetricks, and install directplay."

However, I can't find how to add DIRECTPLAY to Winetricks.
You don't. Those instructions mean "use winetricks to install directplay."
I've also seen this:
$ wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks
$ sh winetricks directplay

But don't know where to type that!!
You type it in a terminal at the command prompt. The first command downloads winetricks, so if you already have it, don't bother. The second uses winetricks to install directplay to the default wineprefix, which is what you want to do.
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Re: How do I instal Directplay (for AOE II multiplayer)

Post by miknik981 »

Thanks for the response.

To confirm, I have "wine" running, and can select "winetricks", but then the only option is "adobeair".

As per your advice, I tried to insert "sh winetricks directplay" in various forms, but got the following:

Mikes-MacBook-Air:~ mikeward$ sh winetricks directplay
sh: winetricks: No such file or directory
Mikes-MacBook-Air:~ mikeward$ $ sh winetricks directplay
-bash: $: command not found
Mikes-MacBook-Air:~ mikeward$ winetricks directplay
-bash: winetricks: command not found
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Re: How do I instal Directplay (for AOE II multiplayer)

Post by miknik981 »

Many thank for your response.

I found I was on ver 1.8 of Wine. When I updated to 3.0 and then after I loaded winetricks, I was able to load directplay.

I have multiplayer AOE II working perfectly, sound and no flicker.
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