Oh it works almost flawlessly. I got the DVD, the one with all the expansions. But I'm playing the original before the warlords expansion, probably just because I like the intro the best. (I still never played beyond the sword.)
It's easy as hell. Just do 'wine install.exe' or whatever it's called. Let it try to install DirectX. It takes forever, go to lunch or something. It will keep saying the same message over and over in the terminal, I thought it wasn't working. But then all of a sudden it starts installing like half an hour later. Then just follow the directions at WineHQ:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=10158
I found all the dll files here:
http://www.dll-files.com/
And then just go to the libraries tab in winecfg and add msxml3 and msxml3r to the existing overrides thing. (I have no idea what any of that means but who cares.)
Also I remember after it was done installing it acted like it was about to begin installing again so I just picked cancel. I don't know what that was about. Or maybe it was trying to install that other game, colonization? I don't know.
Actually I'm not sure if warlords and beyond the sword work, I haven't tried them. You might need to do some more stuff in winecfg or move some dll files yet, don't know.
Oh yeah and the only thing that doesn't work is the progress bar on the cities. Just go to options and you can make it display the number of turns in the two progress bars so you don't need them.
