I found the solution to my problem. What you said about file EMPIRE.CFG prompted me to investigate that. I dug up the original file from 1991 and it is slightly different than the file I've been using on my Windows system which is what I copied to the Mac. I've never before paid attention to the …

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in game menu is ega But the problem is I get *icons* of ugly cga. The icons are not in a menu but appear in a map as the game is played. Since you see cga in the start screen, that means the icons will be cga too. I'm not usually fussy about graphics, but in this case the cga detracts from the …

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I now used simply this on the command line: empire.exe I still get the same problem. "Empire was unable to find file C:\EMPDAT\empiconr.cga". Suggestions?

Thanks Dominus. You're right, that command line for empire.exe is wrong, I should of known. I will do your suggestion. I was reusing part of the method I used on my Windows machine, where I launched DOSBox from the command line in a bat file. I'm new to the iMac and I don't see a way to launch …

I've been using DOSBox on my Windows computer and it works fine there, but now I'm trying to get it working on a iMac computer. I downloaded the version made for Mac of course, DOSBox-0.74-2_Universal-Mac.dmg. DOSBox itself works but there is a problem running an old DOS game called Empire, Wargame …

It looks like the contents of the Silent.bat File are corrupted. It sends the command "SS2 VGA IBM 720" to the OS. That's why you get the error. Try finding the original Silent.bat