Empire Earth for Apple Silicon 0.8.2

A crash fix. Play your own GOG copy of Empire Earth Gold natively on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later, macOS 13 or later), including LAN games with friends on Windows.

What's new

• Fixed a crash in long games. When many units (17 or more) stood stacked on one spot, the game could crash without warning. The bug is in the original game's own code, in the routine that lets a unit step out of a crowd, and Windows can hit it too. The app now checks that sort before it runs. Whenever it is safe, the game's own sort runs unchanged, so LAN games with Windows players stay in sync. Only in the case that would crash does the app order the units safely instead. Details: simparity.md §11.

Install

1. Download EmpireEarth-0.8.2.dmg, open it and drag EmpireEarth onto Applications.
2. Open it from Applications. macOS blocks it the first time because the app isn't notarized. Click Done, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
3. Give it GOG's offline installer (setup_empire_earth_gold_….exe) or an installed Empire Earth Gold folder. It builds the game for your Mac once, in about 2–5 minutes.

Updating: quit the game, then drag the new app over the old one in Applications. You'll need Open Anyway again.

• From 0.8.1: the game starts straight away; nothing is rebuilt.
• From 0.8 or earlier: the first start rebuilds the game once, and macOS asks again whether EmpireEarth may find devices on your local network. Click Allow.

Your saved games and settings stay in ~/Library/Application Support/EmpireEarth.

The full guide is docs/INSTALL.md. If something breaks, please open an issue and attach game.log and launcher.log from ~/Library/Application Support/EmpireEarth/Logs/.

Files

File
EmpireEarth-0.8.2.dmg	the app (use this one)
EmpireEarth-0.8.2.zip	the same app as a zip
ffmpeg-7.1.1.tar.xz	the unmodified FFmpeg source of the app's movie decoder (LGPL-2.1)
SHA256SUMS	checksums of the three files above

The app contains no part of Empire Earth. You need your own copy from GOG. This is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Rebellion, Sierra, Stainless Steel Studios, GOG or Apple.

Empire Earth for Apple Silicon 0.8.1

Play your own GOG copy of Empire Earth Gold natively on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later, macOS 13 or later), including LAN games with friends on Windows. This is the first release on GitHub.

What's new

0.8: the performance release. These fixes come from LAN evenings with friends:

• Arrow-key scrolling is as fast and as even as on Windows.
• No more stutter when many units come into view, and big battles stay playable.
• Orders are acknowledged at once. Before, the yellow confirmation could take up to 3 seconds to appear.
• Huge random maps are generated in 1–2 seconds instead of about 20.
• The game runs at up to 120 fps, even with Wait for VSync off, and uses less power when idle.

0.8.1:

• The app's identifier is now io.github.maxgraf96.empireearth. macOS asks once more whether EmpireEarth may find devices on your local network. Click Allow, or multiplayer won't work.
• The project is MIT-licensed. FFmpeg's source is attached below, as its licence requires.

Install

1. Download EmpireEarth-0.8.1.dmg, open it and drag EmpireEarth onto Applications.
2. Open it from Applications. macOS blocks it the first time because the app isn't notarized. Click Done, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
3. Give it GOG's offline installer (setup_empire_earth_gold_….exe) or an installed Empire Earth Gold folder. It builds the game for your Mac once, in about 2–5 minutes.

Updating from 0.7 or 0.8: quit the game, then drag the new app over the old one in Applications. You'll need Open Anyway again. The first start rebuilds the game once. Your saved games and settings are kept in ~/Library/Application Support/EmpireEarth.

The full guide, with troubleshooting and multiplayer notes (ZeroTier works, Tailscale and Direct Connect don't), is docs/INSTALL.md. If something breaks, please open an issue and attach game.log and launcher.log from ~/Library/Application Support/EmpireEarth/Logs/.

Files

File
EmpireEarth-0.8.1.dmg	the app (use this one)
EmpireEarth-0.8.1.zip	the same app as a zip
ffmpeg-7.1.1.tar.xz	the unmodified FFmpeg source of the app's movie decoder (LGPL-2.1)
SHA256SUMS	checksums of the three files above

The app contains no part of Empire Earth. You need your own copy from GOG. This is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Rebellion, Sierra, Stainless Steel Studios, GOG or Apple.