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Journal tomhudson's Journal: Blast from the Past [ Simcity2k on a 1920x1200 26" is NICE! 15

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Just for the heck of it, I decided to dig out my old Simcity 2k, Simcity3000 Unlimited, and Simcity4 Rush Hour disks and see what it's like at higher resolution.

First up - Simcity2000.

It's the same game - but it's not. It makes a big difference (though the game is hard-coded to work on 4:3 monitors and mistakenly reports the resolution as 1600x1200 and not 1920x1200).

Do NOT set it to go as fast as possible - you won't be able to slow it down later because on today's machines, "as fast as possible" is pretty much instantaneous.

Some games really are classics.

-- Barbie

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  • IIRC Simcity 2k could run in DOS (which is probably where I ran it) - how are you playing it? Emulation? Compatibility?

    • Nope... Windows version existed. May have been both, let me check. Yup [wikipedia.org], it was re-released for DOS/Windows. It worked fine on a XP machine last time I tested, without any compatibility settings.

      • Sorry, I did not mean to imply that no Windows version ever existed. However, I thought I had heard that the newest version of Windows don't care much for some binaries from earlier versions, so if she were to be running say Windows 7 she may need to do some sort of compatibility in order to run it.

        • It's usually safe to assume that vocal Windows detractors are prolly not running one of the latest versions.

          I had Sim on my Mac Plus in college, maybe the original, and didn't play it all that much, as it turned out I thought it was just an okay idea. But I imagine with how I played it at the time, but with today's hardware, my cities would be instantly incinerated! (I sucked so bad at city mgmt, that I remember my roommate looking over my shoulder while I was viewing some polling screen one time, showing w

          • Well, my laptop did come with Vista, and I kept the Windows drive when I installed linux on a second internal drive, for compatibility testing.

            SimCity2k works fine on WfW 3.11, 95, 98, millenium, xp, and vista, abd IIRC there was also a DOS install mentioned in the user manual.

            Simcity3k installed and ran - with some suckage - on 95 (it really needs more resources) but on any machine running a ghz or better, it should be no problem.

            Ditto Simcity4

            Of course, not booting into Windows for months at a tim

        • Oddly enough, the Windows version is the only one I ever saw. (I knew at least a handful of people playing it) That's why I thought it was a Windows-native version.

          • Ah, the memories. The original SimCity, running under DOS 3.3 with Hercules graphics, was the first game on a PC that really flashed me. The graphics were incredibly detailed for the day, the idea was gorgeous, and it made for a nice playground. Loved it.

            I played SC2000 under DOS (very nice), and later under Windows 95, and having seen the newer ones, I really prefer that one, it's on the sweet spot between possibilites and burdening complexity. Unfortunately I lost my original disks, but I'd love to play i

            • The original SimCity is, I think, unplayable on modern OSes because it exploits some bug. Well that or the pirate copy I have is defective. I played SimCity in EGA Glory for hours, hours and hours...

              I never really got hooked to SimCity 2000, though.

              • Then you missed out on a lot of fun stuff. What was nice was setting up a productive city and letting it run till like 30000 years into the future, then wiping everything, plowing all the ground, dropping down for the water tables, making your own islands, setting up arcologies and just goofing off...

              • Hm, by which means did you try running it? DOSbox? I haven't tried running games THAT old, but the "newer" ones run just fine. Well, most of them. *g*

                • It's been a very long time I tried. Probably in the early 2000s. The fonts were completely scrambled, the rest was okay. So, it might just be that my binaries are corrupted. I still have them somewhere, I should try in DosBOX.

  • With 64-bit Windows 7, Microsoft has finally abandoned 16-bit compatibility. Thunking now takes place with WoW64 providing the 32-bit compatibility layer.

    Can't say I'm all sad about it, as this is the first time I've ever wanted to run an old 16-bit program on this box. Except at work, where some guys wanted an old 16-bit service to run on 64-bit Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft said "uh-uh, can't do that." Fine, it was time to replace that leaky old app anyway.

    • Well, you could always make a bootable cd or dvd with DOS 7 (from windows 95) and WFW 3.11.

      I have one that I made kicking around somewhere - boot time was FAST! You're limited to 256 meg of ram, but who cares :-)

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