Also, decompress the PC copy of the abandonware Dune II Open the DMG, and drag the Dune Legacy app to your Applications folder.Search 'Dune II Abandonware' in your favorite search engine, it'll come up on many sites.Dune II using Dune Legacyĭune Legacy gives a nice modern twist to the original shortcomings of Dune II, including better AI, head-to-head, ability to group select units, more hotkeys, modern resolutions, HD graphics, and so on. I don't see a moral quandry here, but you can always obtain the original game disks if you see fit.

Thanks to open source, both Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty and its sequel, Dune 2000, can be played on Mac OS, natively and with some modern improvements.ĭisclaimer: By the letter-of-the-law, abandonware isn't 100% legal but there's no real legal vector to obtain these games, each over 2 decades old. I hoped Dune 2 or Dune 2000 would end up on a service like GOG.com but sadly, it hasn't. I've revisited via emulation a few times. I can't say I have an special affinity for the genre, as pretty much the only other RTSes I've played are the original Command and Conquer and Warcraft 2, but I always liked Dune: The Battle for Arrakis.

I assume anyone who is reading this probably knows the place that Dune plays in gaming history, but it's largely considered the title that defined the genre of the real-time strategy (RTS) or the first real time strategy ( even if not entirely correct. I never played Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty on a PC, only the Sega Genesis port Dune: The Battle for Arrakis so it was news to me that you could play Dune II on MacOS.

Every now and again, I get a hankering for retro gaming and it ends up on this blog.

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