Dune II is a free game only available for Windows, belonging to the category PC games with subcategory Strategy (more specifically Real Time Strategy) and has been published by Abandonia. It's available for users with the operating system Windows 2000 and former versions, and you can download it only in English. In Dune 2, generally when the enemy AI has not yet detected the human player it will be passive. Usually due reinforcements the AI will have “detected” the human player and begins its attacks. One of the reasons is to give the human player some time to build a base and economy to counter any attacks. Although this will work, I felt it would. Download Dune Legacy 0.96.4 (Dune Legacy 0.96.4 Setup.exe) Install Dune legacy, by right clicking the installation file and chosing 'run as administrator'. During the installation, you'll be asked for the.PAK game files of the original Dune II game. Finish the installation.
Dune is based on acomplex imagined society set roughly 20,000 yearsin the future. The setting is the year 10,191,and human beings have spread out and colonized planets throughoutthe universe. On the planet Caladan, Duke Leto of the House of Atreidesis preparing to leave for his new position as the governor of Arrakis,a desert planet with valuable resources of melange, a spice drugthat is extremely popular with wealthy people. Leto and his family,including his concubine, Jessica, and his son, Paul, suspect a trapby their rivals, the Harkonnens, led by Baron Harkonnen. Leto decidesto settle on Arrakis because of its rich supplies of melange, despitewarnings from his men, including his adviser, Thufir Hawat, andhis master-of-arms, Gurney Halleck.
The Atreides arrive on Arrakis and the duke quickly movesto secure the planet from a Harkonnen attack. His main plan is to enlistthe Fremen, the tough natives of the Arrakeen desert, as soldiersand advisers. Meanwhile, Paul’s and Jessica’s special abilities intriguethe Fremen. Jessica is a member of the Bene Gesserit, a school ofquasi-mystical witches with strange powers. The Fremen believe thatJessica and her son are saviors who have come to lead them towardcreating a lush paradise on the dry Arrakis.
Dr. Yueh, a member of the Atreides house, betrays them.The Harkonnens arrive and wipe most of the Atreides out by using Sardaukar,the super-soldiers of the emperor, who is secretly helping the Harkonnens.The traitor, Dr. Yueh, hands Duke Leto over to the baron, but inhis guilt he helps Jessica and Paul escape. Dr. Yueh places a secrettooth in Duke Leto’s mouth. Duke Leto dies by emitting poison gasfrom the secret tooth, in a failed attempt to kill the baron. Hawatand Halleck escape as well. Halleck joins the local smugglers whileHawat attempts to join the Fremen, but Hawat is captured by theHarkonnens. He then agrees to work for Baron Harkonnen as a Mentat,or thinker, while secretly plotting his revenge against the baronand against Jessica, who he thinks betrayed Duke Leto.
Dr. Kynes, a Fremen leader and planetary ecologist, ordersthe Fremen to find Jessica and Paul. The Fremen capture and then quicklyaccept Jessica and Paul as their destined leaders. Jessica becomestheir reverend mother, while Paul is recognized as something closeto a religious prophet. Paul takes the name Muad’Dib, a religioustitle that means mouse. As he matures swiftly following his father’sdeath, Paul discovers he has great powers above and beyond thoseof his mother. He can see into both the future and the distant past.His consumption of melange heightens his powers.
Two years pass. The baron, living on the Harkonnen home world,schemes to usurp the emperor, while grooming one of his own nephews,Feyd-Rautha, to take over the job. Meanwhile, on Arrakis, Paul hasbecome very powerful and influential among the Fremen. He is boththeir secular and religious leader, like Kynes before him, but hispowers are far greater than those of Kynes. He has a child witha Fremen woman, Chani, the daughter of Kynes, and his mother hasgiven birth to Alia, Duke Leto’s daughter. Paul teaches the Fremento fight using a special style called the “weirding way” and usingthe advanced fighting techniques of the Bene Gesserit. One day,the Fremen discover that the baron has abandoned his aid to Rabban,the nephew he assigned to rule over Arrakis. Paul and the Fremenmake plans to raid the Arrakeen capital now that Rabban is cut offfrom the baron’s help.
Upon discovering the power of the Fremen, the emperorhimself comes to Arrakis, along with his Sardaukar and the Harkonnens. TheFremen attack the emperor, quickly dismantling his spaceships whiledestroying the Sardaukar. In the battle, Alia kills Baron Harkonnen,and Paul’s young son dies in a raid. Paul demands that the emperorstep down; Paul asks to marry the emperor’s daughter, Irulan, sothat he may become the new emperor. Feyd-Rautha challenges Paul,citing the right of vengeance, and Paul kills him in a duel. Powerlessnow, the emperor agrees to Paul’s demands, and Paul becomes thenew emperor.
| Control: | Game is controlled by the same keys that are used to playing under MS DOS. For fullscreen press 'Right Alt' + 'Enter'. |
| Help: | This game is emulated by javascript emulator em-dosbox. If you prefer to use a java applet emulator, follow this link. |
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| Other platforms: | Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. Be patient :-) |
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box cover | Game title: | Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty | | Platform: | MS-DOS | | Author (released): | Westwood Studios (1992) | | Genre: | Strategy | Mode: | Single-player | | Design: | Joseph Bostic, Aaron E. Powell, Brett Sperry, ... | | Music: | Paul Mudra, Frank Klepacki, Dwight K. Okahara | | Game manual: | manual.pdf | File size: | 5684 kB | | Download: | dune2.zip | Game size: | 3789 kB | | Recommended emulator: | DOSBox | | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: | Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (retitled Dune II: Battle for Arrakis in Europe and for the Mega Drive/Genesis port) is a Dune video game developed by Westwood Studios and released by Virgin Interactive in Jan 1, 1992. It is based upon David Lynch's 1984 movie Dune, an adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel of the same name. While not necessarily the first real-time strategy (RTS) game (elements of which previously appeared in Stonkers, The Ancient Art of War, Command HQ, and particularly Herzog Zwei), Dune II established the format that would be followed for years to come. As such, Dune II was the archetypical 'real-time strategy' game. Striking a balance between complexity and innovation, it was a huge success and laid the foundation for the coming Command & Conquer, Warcraft, Age of Empires and StarCraft series, and many other RTS games.
Emperor Frederick IV of House Corrino is desperate for the harvesting of the valuable drug melange (also known as 'the spice'), found on only the planet Arrakis, to pay off all of his debt incurred on internecine wars with family members. To achieve this, he now offers the sole governorship of Arrakis to the House (Atreides, Harkonnen, and Ordos) which delivers the most spice for him. War begins as deputations from all three Houses arrive on Arrakis. The player is a military commander from a House of his choice. In the first few missions the objectives are to establish successfully a base on an unoccupied territory of Arrakis, to harvest spice, and to defeat intruders. Later, when the three Houses divide Arrakis among them, the player has to assault and capture enemy territories. When the player dominates Arrakis on the world map, the two other enemy factions ally against their common enemy. The ultimate final showdown is the battle between the player's House against three enemy sides, among them Frederick's forces the Sardaukar (an unplayable elite force whose heavy infantry are particularly powerful). The final cutscene is different for each House, in consonance with their very disparate world views. More details about this game can be found on Wikipedia.org. | | For fans and collectors: | | Find this game on video server YouTube.com or Vimeo.com. | | Buy original version of this game on Amazon.com or eBay.com. | Find digital download of this game on GOGorSteam. | | Platform: | This version of Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty was designed for personal computers with operating system MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), which was operating system developed by Microsoft in 1981. It was the most widely-used operating system in the first half of the 1990s. MS-DOS was supplied with most of the IBM computers that purchased a license from Microsoft. After 1995, it was pushed out by a graphically more advanced system - Windows and its development was ceased in 2000. At the time of its greatest fame, several thousand games designed specifically for computers with this system were created. Today, its development is no longer continue and for emulation the free DOSBox emulator is most often used. More information about MS-DOS operating system can be found here. | | Available online emulators: | 5 different online emulators are available for Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic features of each emulator available for this game Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty are summarized in the following table:
| | Emulator | Technology | Multiplayer | Fullscreen | Touchscreen | Speed | | Archive.org | JavaScript | YES | NO | NO | fast | | js-dos | JavaScript | YES | YES | NO | fast | | js-dos 6.22 | JavaScript | YES | YES | NO | fast | | jsDosBox | JavaScript | YES | NO | NO | slow | | jDosBox | Java applet | YES | YES | NO | fast |
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