Comments on: SimCity under Windows 3.0

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 22:01:13 +0000

In reply to The Kombinator. Can't say I blame you, if I had a good source on functional scrap I'd be doing it as well.

By: The Kombinator

The Kombinator — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:17:13 +0000

I’ve been selling complete 386 and 486 machines on eBay for $400-$500 (and a 286 for $600) for years now. Mind you mine are in excellent condition and refurbished, but as long as there’s a demand, I’ll keep sourcing parts and building them.

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 22:01:05 +0000

In reply to neozeed. The Windows version of SimCity 2000 has an easter egg that features "Two Cows In Windows" ;)

By: techfury90

techfury90 — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:28:25 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

If the torrent is the same as this link: https://mega.nz/#F!jIgkXQDY!hE3FQNWl77DkzKErGdz35g!qBBxGb5D

Check in the Imagineer directory. It’s there.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 13:35:56 +0000

In reply to DOS.

There is a little bit more here: http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/simcity/credits

Cassidy Wright, is his daughter and has several title credits. I’d think that there is a story somewhere

By: DOS

DOS — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 12:46:28 +0000

Google isn’t helping me here: what is Maxine the cow, a cow that appears only on the splash screen?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 08:56:26 +0000

In reply to techfury90. Looking at these box contents, the PC-98 version was pretty much the same. I found a "NeoKobe-NecPc-98012017-11-17_archive.torrent", but no SimCity in there. Oh well.

By: Richard Wells

Richard Wells — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 07:07:51 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

New software targeted at new systems and Dad games went to more expensive hardware. GUI madness had over taken the industry and everyone hoped that Windows users would be as willing to buy lots of software as Mac users were. The typical Mac user bought 3 times as much software as a DOS user.

In 1992, Compaq and IBM were placing their new $1,000 models with 2 MB of RAM and color VGA monitors. Okay, the rest of the system was limited with 40 MB hard drives and slug like 386SXes but the smaller companies without established server lines were more willing to offer larger hard drives and better CPUs for the money. The late 1992 (back-to-school sale) clone I would expect to see would have had 386-33, 4 MB, 14″ SVGA and a 100 MB hard drive for the target $1,000.

Looking at my copy of Sim City Windows, it was sold at $19.99 which didn’t leave much margin considering the size of the manual even with cost cutting moves like pasting labels on older boxes.

By: techfury90

techfury90 — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:30:38 +0000

Make sure you try the PC-98 version. It’s at Neo Kobe. It’s interesting because it runs in 640×400 and uses the Mac assets. At least for 2000, anyway.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 12:50:35 +0000

In reply to Richard Wells.

True, but people with far more minimal systems would be running the DOS version of just about anything. I’m going with the assumption that the whole reason for a Windows version is so you can run more than one thing at a time. I can imagine spending for an extra megabyte of RAM, plus an XMS board (plenty of 286s maxed out with 1MB of RAM, I know mine did) the whole thing would have felt underwhelming as to require 12Mb of disk space for Windows plus another 2 for SimCity… It certainly would have made Stacker mandatory for those of us with 20Mb disks… Hence the larger machines…