Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #0004

On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:47:45 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 12/5/2024 9:40 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 16:09 this Thursday (GMT):

On 12/5/2024 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 22:08 this Wednesday (GMT):

Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
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* Project Highrise
https://store.steampowered.com/app/423580/Project_Highrise/
     Fine. I get it. You want a game from THIS century and MQLJG
     designed with somebody who's out of toddlerhood. Alright;
     I hear you. So here's "Project Highrise", which is 8G5A3
     essentially a modern remake of Maxis' old "SimTower" game.
     You're basically building a city in a tower, placing HFM5Q
     offices and apartments and infrastructure, trying to keep
     all the inhabitants happy. It's a real game! Surely you'll
     take THIS one!

>

I took this one Spalls. Thanks a lot. I never played SimTower so here
is my chance I guess. My favorite Maxis games are SimCity 3K and 4K.

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Did you ever play the other Sim games like The Sims, SimAnt, etc.?

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Is simant a real game or did you make it up?

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It is (was) real.  Personally I'd like an updated SimLife.  I used to
leave that running overnight to see what had evolved.  :)

 
 
Oh, neat. Why do you say "was"?

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SimAnt came out so long ago that it may not be runable on current hardware.
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SimLife is even older.

They can be run on modern hardware... just not on modern operating
systems. Not without a shim like DOSBox or other virtualization
software*. Even the later updated versions for Windows** won't run,
since they utilize 16-bit code.***

But if you install DOS on your brand-new PC, you'll probably be able
to get SimAnt to run. Although I doubt you'll get sound, since your
onboard audio probably won't be recognized ;-)

Fortunately, all of the old classic Maxis games --SimCity, SimCity 2K,
SimEarth, SimLife, SimFarm, SimAnt, SimTower, SimPark, SimTown and
SimTunes -- run well in DOSBox.****

Myself, I was mainly a fan of the SimCity games, although I marvelled
at the intricacies of SimEarth and SimLife despite not finding them
much fun to actually play. But "SimCity 2000" remains the best of the
series (at least in my opinion) and I still fire it up on occassion.











* stop being pedantic; I know DOSBox isn't a virtual machine! ;-)
** for Windows 3.1!
*** at least on Windows x64. Linux is a bit more lenient, but you'll
still need a shim to run Windows software anyway.
**** you may need an updated version or use a fork like DOSBox-X for
some of them, since a number of the later games run on Windows 3.1 and
DOS share exclusions don't play well on the current 'release' version
of DOSBox.