


Both games were based upon David Lynch's 1984 movie Dune, which was in turn taken from Frank Herbert's science fiction novel of the same name. It is a loose sequel of the computer strategy game Dune (although it shared no storyline or gameplay). Dune 2000 on Windows 7 with XP Modeĭune 2000 will install fine in Windows 7 XP Mode, it won't start however, because the emulated S3 video card does not support the required video modes.This article is based largely on the Wikipedia article on Dune II.ĭune II: The Building of a Dynasty (also known as Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis in Europe, and simply Dune: The Battle for Arrakis in the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis port) is a Dune computer game, released in 1992 by Westwood Studios. However, when you do have Dune 2000 running in Virtual Box, sound is not optimal, and the window resolution is low. Please make sure that you also install the VirtualBox Guest Additions, otherwise Dune 2000 won't work properly. To play Dune 2000 on 64 bit operating systems, it is also possible to use VirtualBox with a 32 bit version of Windows XP.

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