AGE OF EMPIRES 1

[Kangaroo]

anyone here want to arrange a Online game for AOE ?

[NiCo`]

age of empires 1 ? too old
I playing the age of the king or the conquerors

[Turko]

Im having colour issues here in windows 7... but i think if i install it on linux using wine would work fine... we should play a tus match of aoe, but would be great if we were 4 or 5 at least

Btw.. how do you play it online? using hamachi?

[Xrayez]

I might join ya, if I have time. I haven't played it for years though (And coz I'm not sure about in what timezone we will play)

[HHC]

Im having colour issues here in windows 7... but i think if i install it on linux using wine would work fine... we should play a tus match of aoe, but would be great if we were 4 or 5 at least

Btw.. how do you play it online? using hamachi?

If you're talking AoE2:

Step 1.

Right click on your desktop, create a new file with notepad.

Step 2.

In this notepad you will write the following one of these things listed bellow, note that if you have Age of Empires 2, Age of kings, you will take the first part, and if you play the expansion use the second part.

-Do not use both-

Age of Kings:

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
EMPIRES2.EXE
Start explorer.exe

The Conquerors Expansion:

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
age2_x1.exe
Start explorer.exe

Step 3.

After you have pasted 1 of the codes above in to notepad, click "save as", also put in "All files" <- this option is under the blank spot where you will enter the name of your new file, the new file could be named anything, aslong as you include ".bat" at the end, for example "Agefix.bat".

Step 4.

You're almost done now, the only thing you need to do is to put this file in to your game folder, mostly in C:/Program/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires 2.

Now you're done, when you want to play the game, use the .bat file you created to start the game, just double click it, and the game will start!


Note : The reason this removes the color bug is because the .bat file you just created quits explorer.exe, and that process is actually what makes the game bug, when you quit the game, explorer will be restarted automatically, no need to start it yourself!

I used a different method myself. Right click in desktop and change the desktop background theme to one of the basic or high contrast-ones. After that right click desktop again and open the screen resolution screen. Change nothing there, but leave it active as you click on aoe2.exe.
It will fix the colours too without doing anything like killing the explorer.exe.. It's a little more trouble though if you play the game more often.

Works on other old games too.

[Kangaroo]

I have never played online...  can i host direct IP ?

[StepS]

awesome, someone actually wants to play AOE 1, when would you like to do it?

BTW I have a patch for 1920x1080 if you need

also, if you have bad colors on Windows 7, no need to kill explorer, simply use DirectDrawFix on your exe, or install the wndmode windowed mode module (by putting it to the root). the problem will be gone forever