Age of Empires

Author:

Microsoft

Publisher:

MacSoft

Type:

Games

Category: Isometric , Significant , Strategy

Shared by: MR

On: 2014-04-14 23:04:56

Updated by: MR

On: 2023-12-08 11:54:17

Other contributors: Amid

, e-cat68k

, ClickSlick

, that-ben

, PCXT

Rating: 8.00 Clarus

out of 10 (2 votes)

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Year: 1997

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What is Age of Empires?

A very well known strategy game where you develop a civilization, fight with others and do campaigns. Released first by Microsoft, then ported to Mac.

"How will you rule the World?
Conquer enemy Civilizations?
Discover the World's Secrets?
Accumulate wealth?
Age of Empires:
Choose your favorite way of world domination."

*Compete against opponents for the limited resources that help you build and manage your little Stone Age tribe into a flourishing empire.

*Direct a research path that leads to economic and military technologies best used to achieve game goals.

*Choose from multiple gameplay options including more than 40 preset scenarios, individual campaigns, or randomly generated games.

*Build powerful armies from dozens of military units including chariots, warships and war elephants.

*Challenge a sophisticated and adjustable artificial intelligence for endless replay value.

*Conquer or cooperate with up to eight players in multiplayer games via modem, LAN, or on the Internet.

* Command one of the ancient civilizations - from Egyptian to Phoenician - all with unique attributes based on their historical counterparts.

Download Age of Empires for Mac

ageofempires_1_3_1.zip

(158.95 MiB / 166.68 MB)
/ Zipped

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2014-04-14 /

2023-04-29 /

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AoE_v1.3.1.zip

(988.62 KiB / 1012.34 KB)
/ Zipped

1081 /

2014-04-14 /

2023-04-29 /

134221da31646ab7de5dd3dd1b249af76d965bcf /

AoE.zip

(427.79 MiB / 448.57 MB)
/ Zipped

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2015-03-29 /

2023-04-29 /

6f78e15fc557e684254b1370accdce340fbdc409 /

from Mega.Co.Nz

(unknown size)

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(Unavailable for external downloads) /

Age_of_Empires_Update_1.2.zip

(826.25 KiB / 846.08 KB)
/ Zipped

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2017-11-20 /

ac0032a93f30476ec3c07861889e4945e786915b /

Age_of_Empires_update_1.3.sit

(711.21 KiB / 728.28 KB)
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70 /

2017-11-20 /

1cc06b37df3fcf0622be971aa82bf05c583bc1a8 /

aoe_user_campaigns.sit

(5.5 MiB / 5.76 MB)
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2017-11-20 /

3cfd2181356bc2271019658da32ba78a5de7e2d5 /

ageofempiresmacdemo.zip

(16.67 MiB / 17.48 MB)
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75 /

2021-12-15 /

bdd3823493747e9f2904dd7861a5215d44022338 /

Age_of_Empires_Update_1.2.sit

(832.94 KiB / 852.93 KB)
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4 /

2023-12-08 /

7d5f0009eb4f5e984ba083cc47d41098ce6b8234 /

Age_of_Empires_k.sit

(624.94 KiB / 639.94 KB)
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3a147f5da97865369fec9bb231510b6bdc22b744 /

Age_of_Empires_1.2_k.sit

(609.59 KiB / 624.22 KB)
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97bbc81c483755b86a7f139b26fb431169bdac20 /

Age_of_Empires_1.3_k.sit

(609.41 KiB / 624.04 KB)
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Age_of_Empires_1.3.1_k.sit

(626.96 KiB / 642.01 KB)
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Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.1 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

System Requirements: 120 MHz 604 processor, 150 MHz 603 or faster, or any G3 (including iMac), 32MB RAM, 70MB hard drive space, CD-ROM drive

System Requirements: (for network play) 28.8 kbps modem and Open Transport required for network play, 150 MHz 604 processor or faster strongly recommended, networking is Mac-to-Mac only.

There are 2 game files. The smaller (ca. 158MB) ZIP has a .toast image of data track, the 427MB ZIP has a complete BIN/CUE image. This last one contains an official soundtrack in CD-Audio form, but cannot be easily mounted in SheepShaver, if you have a physical Mac, you can probably burn it on a CD for it or read this article: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/articles/37-i-downloaded-something-that-contains-bin-cue-files-how-do-i-mount-this-under-mac-os-9-

If you mount .toast image with Toast, the game still won't start because Toast has the bad habit of making mounted images writable and omitting files which don't have parts of it in filesystem. If this image is mounted with Virtual CD-DVD Utility (https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1616-virtual-dvd-rom-cd-utility, I tried 1.0d3 version) it works well.

During installation, QuickTime may not be installed if you're on Mac OS 9, because it's included.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver