QEMU Empire Earth Gold (2001) -- From Install to Play in 15 Mins for Apple Silicon macOS
6Join King William in his ascent to Dukedom of Normandy. Empire Earth Gold (2001) is an epic among RTS games spanning civilization history of over 5000 years. There may be NO alternative in qemu-3dfx devotion for another 50 years on Games Preservation, in which QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx proudly preserves the epic in pristine condition and retail originality in timeless manner. The Gold edition bundles The Art of Conquest expansion which shall be reserved for another episode of From Install to Play in 15 Mins for modern Windows for Intel, AMD or NVIDIA GPUs.
It is an epic RTC game that reiterates how TRUE GPU acceleration matters in stark contrast to whatever "Trash"Boxes and "JUNK_PC"em FULL of *Accuracy \*BS\** in the LAUGHING STOCK of whatever Voodoos emulation "all-done-in-software" bluffing through their relevance in retro PC gaming. While everyone may have their preference to define "playability" for an RTS game, some would consider about 15 FPS is playable. Indeed, Empire Earth in-game rendered cutscenes were playback at 15 FPS of which the frame rate counter did not show. For the rest, let the viewers decide if they consider the frame rate is good enough to be enjoyable. It remains a marvelous feat for QEMU TCG to achieve such playability out of Apple M2 Pro in the MacBook Pro form factor at near-silent fan speed. On occasion where the scene was populated with increased complexity, the frame rate can still drop to single digit. However, in spite of low single digit frame rate, music and sound effects are not affected. There is absolutely ZERO mouse lag in QEMU, even in TCG emulation, an important factor for any RTS games that depend heavily on mouse inputs. Games can actually be played and enjoyable on QEMU, unlike the JOKES called PCem/86Box in how they spewed such *Accuracy \*BS\** of timings and all the nonsense in lack of know-hows to deal with audio/inputs in real-time driven events that result in audio distortion and inputs latency. In such case, QEMU is more accurate than whatever *\*BS\** of PCem/86Box, functionally behaving exactly as underpowered period-correct PCs for demanding games at low frame rate.
Empire Earth Gold (2001) is also on GOG Preservation Program and it is cheaper than a happy meal from McDonald with hot coffee. [https://www.gog.com/en/game/empire_earth_gold_edition] It is an avenue of alternative into playing the Game on modern Windows PCs/Laptops. For anyone live & breathe within Apple walled garden, things could turn out harder in threading the waters among Whisky/Bottles, PortingKit or onto commercial programs such as CrossOver or Parallels Desktop. For a small donation to support the project and Games Preservation, QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx demonstrates & offers the simplicity of From Install to Play in 15 Mins, NO 3rd-party patches, NO cracks whatsoever, ALL DONE & PLAY in retail originality and peace-of-mind VM isolation.