Age of Empires II in SheepShaver - black screen after intro

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nexusle
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Age of Empires II in SheepShaver - black screen after intro

Post by nexusle »

Hey Everyone,

I try to play Age of Empires II in SheepShaver on Raspberry Pu 4. I know, RPi is a bit slow for PPC emulation, but it ist usable. In SheepShaver I installed german Mac OS 9.0.4. The installation of AoE2 also works. I can start it, but I get a black screen instead of the game menu after the intro animations.

In SheepShaver on my M2 Mac mini the game works well in the very same installation.

I downloaded the game from Macintosh Repository.

Had anyone tried this before and had luck with it?
shaitan
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Re: Age of Empires II in SheepShaver - black screen after intro

Post by shaitan »

I was able to reproduce this on my rpi5. I deleted the movies and updated to 1.0.5 and still got the black screen. I am using the English version of MacOS 9.0.4. It looks like it's changing resolution at the same time it freezes, I wonder if the menu is at some weird unsupported resolution? I am noticing some other issues with Marathon freezing but I haven't dug into it too much to see if that's on my end or what might be causing that to happen.
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