If you already have a liscense for windows you might want to consider running
VMware if your system is robust enough.  They just sent me an email about the
beta of V2.0 being released.

http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/beta_linux/

> Has anybody gotten Wine to run a wargame called Master of Orion II, but I get
> trouble when it tries to configure a geometry of 640x480 resolution and dies
> with a message that it can't handle the depth.
> 
> Because of this, I have tried Bochs, which is an x86 emulator.  That will not
> run (Segmentation fault) despite tripple-checking and streamlining the
> configuration.
> 
> Has anybody gotton this game to work in Linux?

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