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Title: sim city Post by: oxford_fan on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 08:45:25 whilst driving to norwich yesterday afternoon i got a sudden urge to play this, particularly the "2000" incarnation.
has anyone ever played sim city 3000 or 4? these seem to be pretty popular in the mininova search results. i'm going to keep it old school for now Title: sim city Post by: Supercake2 on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 09:27:57 i bought 3000 off ebay last year, ace game. but it doesnt work on my vista laptop :(
Title: sim city Post by: magic8ball on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 09:48:07 Used to love the 2000 game. Had a game once that went the whole distance, you know, into the year 2050 or something, and I had a ridiculous population of 400,000,000 or something.
Tried it more recently and failed miserably. Title: sim city Post by: land_of_bo on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 10:39:57 I liked the very first one on the Amiga, you could hold down SHIFT and type CASH to give yourself more money...not that I'm a cheat or anything :D
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 12:02:30 Never played the more recent ones but 2000 was ace. Until you had to try and place underground stuff like pipes and subways anyway. That was stupidly hard to click in the right place.
I used to like Building Prisons and then putting Schools next to them. I'd pretend that they were sex offender prisons. Title: sim city Post by: jayohaitchenn on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 12:32:11 Oxford Fan,
Where did you download Sim City 2000 from? I have a sudden urge to play it aswell. Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 12:33:10 I just found it. wooot.
Title: sim city Post by: jayohaitchenn on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 12:34:51 Quote from: "flammableBen" I just found it. wooot. do tell. Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 12:55:59 It was hidden in a folder on my hard drive.
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 14:35:57 Quote from: "jayohaitchenn" Quote from: "flammableBen" I just found it. wooot. do tell. I'll upload it for you if you still want it, it's not very big. Title: sim city Post by: yeo on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 14:54:54 Ive been playing 3000 got it on Limewire.
Title: sim city Post by: jayohaitchenn on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 15:43:43 Quote from: "flammableBen" Quote from: "jayohaitchenn" Quote from: "flammableBen" I just found it. wooot. do tell. I'll upload it for you if you still want it, it's not very big. yes please my love. Title: sim city Post by: oxford_fan on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 16:41:41 here it is
http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=sim+city+2000 benevolence population 12600 Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 16:56:37 I'm enjoying this. The town of FlabbyHo is flourishing. Population 15050.
Title: sim city Post by: Simon Pieman on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 18:18:32 I've never played this. Ben's prison next to school idea has inspired me to download it
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Thursday, June 28, 2007, 18:33:20 Cunting Commerce are demanding an airport. Fucking Commerce.
Title: sim city Post by: magic8ball on Friday, June 29, 2007, 12:02:05 Downloaded it this morning. I've built a marvellous city. Now how the fuck do I open it for people to come live in it?
Title: sim city Post by: sonic youth on Friday, June 29, 2007, 12:03:39 i could never get my head round sim city. i'm a bit simple.
theme park and theme hospital were the shizzle Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Friday, June 29, 2007, 12:03:41 They should come and live in it automatically. Did you remember electricity?
Title: sim city Post by: magic8ball on Friday, June 29, 2007, 12:05:20 As far as I'm aware, I'm all wired up, and the water is pumping freely throughout my city.
Grrr. Yes, Theme Park and Hospital were marvellous. Used to like making my Rollercoaster go extremely fast so people fell of and vomitted. Title: sim city Post by: magic8ball on Friday, June 29, 2007, 12:08:25 Ooohh...A chemical storge facility has just popped up....Still no residential of commercial though....
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Friday, June 29, 2007, 12:14:06 Quote from: "magic8ball" As far as I'm aware, I'm all wired up, and the water is pumping freely throughout my city. Grrr. Yes, Theme Park and Hospital were marvellous. Used to like making my Rollercoaster go extremely fast so people fell of and vomitted. Build 6x6 blocks of residential/industrial/commercial areas - whatever it says people want on the little meter on the left. Surround them with roads. People won't move in if a block designated for one of these things is more than 3 squares a way from a road. Swamp the areas with power cables (not completely) connected to your power station and you're away. Then worry about a few water pumps and pipe them up. Stick in the occasional Bus Depot, School, College, Park, Hospital, Prison, Police Station, etc. Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Friday, June 29, 2007, 12:15:11 Here's flabby ho as an example.
Things aren't going so great though at the moment as I'm skint, already borrowed shit loads and one of my powerstations is about to go. http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/flabbyho.jpg Title: sim city Post by: jayohaitchenn on Friday, June 29, 2007, 12:43:46 any chance of uplaoding the files somewhere, i can't use bit torrent at work and can't afford the internet at home... :oops:
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Friday, June 29, 2007, 13:02:13 http://download.yousendit.com/C10D576624F32B12
unzip it somewhere temporary and run the setup. Should install fine, you can probably delete the install files after if you want. Title: sim city Post by: tans on Friday, June 29, 2007, 13:05:17 is it possible to get a copy of theme park anywhere?
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Friday, June 29, 2007, 13:34:41 Quote from: "pc younger" is it possible to get a copy of theme park anywhere? eBay (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PC-CD-ROM-Theme-Park-Inc_W0QQitemZ250135179267QQihZ015QQcategoryZ27232QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) Title: sim city Post by: tans on Friday, June 29, 2007, 13:50:53 muchos gracias
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Friday, June 29, 2007, 13:56:51 de nada
Title: sim city Post by: Samdy Gray on Friday, June 29, 2007, 14:34:07 I never figured out how to play Sim City, I always used to play Civilisation instead.
Title: sim city Post by: magic8ball on Friday, June 29, 2007, 14:39:58 Bugger all this. I'm downloading Sim City 4 instead.
Title: sim city Post by: Gethimout on Friday, June 29, 2007, 22:13:43 Is there anyone on that maybe could send this along to me????
Title: sim city Post by: Arnold.J.Rimmer on Friday, June 29, 2007, 22:38:12 Sim City 2000 was great. I played it through to the year 9999 when it resets back the year zero. :shock:
Title: sim city Post by: pauld on Saturday, June 30, 2007, 08:37:49 Would have thought oxford fan would find Sim City a bit frustrating. "Right, that's the sewage farm built. Now select a stadium to build next to it. Got it. OK, right-click on stadium, Options .... oh hell, there's no option for "three-sided stadium only" what the hell kind of sim game is this?"
Title: sim city Post by: oxford_fan on Monday, July 2, 2007, 12:00:21 this is the city i started the other day after downloading it
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/ben3085/untitled-1.jpg Title: sim city Post by: magic8ball on Monday, July 2, 2007, 12:05:55 Fuck me, you've a lot of derelict housing there....Taxes too high?
Title: sim city Post by: oxford_fan on Monday, July 2, 2007, 13:45:12 it was a bit shit then, just gave it a revamp
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Monday, July 2, 2007, 17:30:46 Behold the master piece which is Wrinkly Hole:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/wrinkleho.jpg Couldn't be arsed to check every 5 mins to see if the club had gone under so thought I'd distract myself. The Utopia of Wrinkly Hole is ran on only Hydroelectric, Wind, and Solar power. Magic stuff eh? Title: sim city Post by: jayohaitchenn on Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 10:51:06 Quote from: "flammableBen" http://download.yousendit.com/C10D576624F32B12 unzip it somewhere temporary and run the setup. Should install fine, you can probably delete the install files after if you want. thanking you. x Title: sim city Post by: Bogus Dave on Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 12:03:10 This games doing my nut in. Can some-one tell me how you get started?
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 12:12:30 build 2 6x6 blocks of dence residential, and industrial. surround them with road so that they are next to each other.. like this (R=road, I=industrial, H=residential)
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Then build a power station (if it's coal build it a little way away), and connect up the zones with power cables. You don't have to completely cover the zones but make sure the cables are connected up and running across. This should start building up, keep doing this in 6x6 sections if you can. Otherwise remember zones won't get built on if they are unpowered or more than 3blocks away from a road or other transport (I think subway stations work aswell but you won't be building them for a while). There's a little bar on the left which shows you how much things are in demand. You won't need that much commercial until later on, so I'd build a few blocks of light commercial here and there. You can always bulldoze it and dence it up later. The demand is also a good indicator of how much you can tax stuff. At the start I normally go for higher tax on residential than on Industrial and Commercial, Don't go too high though, and if the residential demand starts dropping loads then lower it. Getting a bit advanced now, but that should start you off. Experiment, it's sort of the point. Title: sim city Post by: Bogus Dave on Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 12:49:55 Thanks for the help, but i cant be fucked to work out how to do most of the power supplies and stuff like that.
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 12:53:22 all you do is build a powerstation and draw a line of power cables, it's not hard.
Title: sim city Post by: Supercake2 on Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 12:58:33 i got sim 3000 working on my vista laptop and started dragging in residents im up to 150,000 people. The wonder of high rise flats...and ive even attracted a new stadium to Dog City :? ...called the 'puppies'.
:D Title: sim city Post by: Bogus Dave on Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 15:43:02 Aha solved it now
Title: sim city Post by: tans on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 08:06:06 Quote from: "Supercake2" i got sim 3000 working on my vista laptop and started dragging in residents im up to 150,000 people. The wonder of high rise flats...and ive even attracted a new stadium to Dog City :? ...called the 'puppies'. :D where did you download it from if you did mate? Title: sim city Post by: herthab on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 08:14:52 Quote from: "pc younger" Quote from: "Supercake2" i got sim 3000 working on my vista laptop and started dragging in residents im up to 150,000 people. The wonder of high rise flats...and ive even attracted a new stadium to Dog City :? ...called the 'puppies'. :D where did you download it from if you did mate? I think it's on www.getalifeandgooutsideonceinafuckingwhileyouloser.co.uk :D Title: sim city Post by: tans on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 08:42:26 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: good comeback, got to do something to occupy me before i got to work tonight, already whacked one off 8)
Title: sim city Post by: Bogus Dave on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 08:43:22 fb put up a yousendit link earlier on in the thread somewhere
Title: sim city Post by: tans on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 08:47:42 marvellous
Title: sim city Post by: Supercake2 on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 10:53:11 Quote from: "pc younger" Quote from: "Supercake2" i got sim 3000 working on my vista laptop and started dragging in residents im up to 150,000 people. The wonder of high rise flats...and ive even attracted a new stadium to Dog City :? ...called the 'puppies'. :D where did you download it from if you did mate? I purchased it from EBAY for about 3 quid :D Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 15:12:40 yey!
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/love.jpg Title: sim city Post by: mattboyslim on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 15:20:33 All hail King FB - will I be able to get home or will they have shut off Kent Road in your honour?
Title: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 15:35:39 It's been renamed Ben Road now.
Title: Re: sim city Post by: Nick Bamosomi on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 14:23:45 Just found this thread - I think I fancy digging out my copy now. Will it run on Windows 7 do you think?
Liked Theme Hospital more though. Title: Re: sim city Post by: Leggett on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 14:44:25 I used to love Sim City, awesome game! Will be downloading this later, woop!
Title: Re: sim city Post by: jonny72 on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 15:24:26 The iPad (and maybe iPhone) version is a pretty much straight conversion of one of the older Sim City games, not sure which one but it's from a good few years ago (looks like the one above). I'd imagine there are similar versions for other phones and pads.
Think I got my copy for 59p - EA are always having sales on their games. Title: Re: sim city Post by: Leggett on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 08:06:55 argh, Ben's download link no longer works :( bumsticks. can anyone re-up please?
Title: Re: sim city Post by: Simon Pieman on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 11:34:54 There are loads around if you look on Google
Title: Re: sim city Post by: Leggett on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 11:55:24 hmmmmmm, found one that *seems* ok...
Title: Re: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 11:57:36 I can just re upload mine if it looks dodgy leggett?
Title: Re: sim city Post by: Leggett on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 12:16:59 tried 2, both were shitty. Off to work now, humph! If you could re-up yours ben, that would be magic. will it last until 10pm when I finish?
Title: Re: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 12:17:17 yeah.
Title: Re: sim city Post by: nevillew on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 12:43:50 Re Theme hospital - how many levels does it have on the PC version - any ideas ?
Title: Re: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 13:13:23 https://www.yousendit.com/download/VnBxSkhkWkJkMnZ2Wmc9PQ
same instructions as before I guess. I haven't tested it. Not sure it will work in Windows 7. Title: Re: sim city Post by: Nick Bamosomi on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 13:44:55 Re Theme hospital - how many levels does it have on the PC version - any ideas ? Can't remember how many Neville, but I'm pretty sure the last level involves aliens, if that helps? Title: Re: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 13:45:40 My brain is saying 12 or 13. But that's just a vague memory so don't trust it.
I've got a strange desire to play Dungeon Keeper now. Title: Re: sim city Post by: donkey on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 13:47:51 https://www.yousendit.com/download/VnBxSkhkWkJkMnZ2Wmc9PQ same instructions as before I guess. I haven't tested it. Not sure it will work in Windows 7. It doesn't. :no: Title: Re: sim city Post by: Leggett on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 13:51:08 Fingers crossed for Vista!
Title: Re: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 13:51:10 I think it might just be 64bit windows. Do you get a
Quote [Window Title] C:\Games\SC2K\SETUP.EXE [Content] The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher. [OK] box when running setup.exe? I think I can work round this but it might be tricky. Title: Re: sim city Post by: wiggy on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 13:52:32 I think it might just be 64bit windows. Do you get a box when running setup.exe? I think I can work round this but it might be tricky. Yep - that is what I get Title: Re: sim city Post by: donkey on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 13:55:21 I think it might just be 64bit windows. Do you get a box when running setup.exe? I think I can work round this but it might be tricky. Yep. Title: Re: sim city Post by: Leggett on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 14:04:11 Thanks Ben!
Title: Re: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 14:09:10 You can manually install it, the 2nd level sc2k folder is everything it copies. Just need to manually do the registry entries which is a bit of a pain.
Right. actually that bit is pretty simple. The problem then is that it won't let you load or save levels. So it might be a bit pointless. Title: Re: sim city Post by: donkey on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 14:09:51 You can manually install it, the 2nd level sc2k folder is everything it copies. Just need to manually do the registry entries which is a bit of a pain. Right. actually that bit is pretty simple. The problem then is that it won't let you load or save levels. So it might be a bit pointless. Oh well, thanks for your efforts. Title: Re: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 14:18:55 I'm still working on it. I think it's something to do with weird read-only permissions on the cities folder. If I get anywhere I'll let you know.
If you want to manually install and play without the ability to save then... in the zip file, there's a folder called SC2k, not the first level one, but the one at the same directory level as setup.exe. Copy just this somewhere. I went for C:\games. Copy and paste the below into notepad. You'll have to change the directories to where you copied the SC2k dir. So it matches up. Also change your mayor name if you care. Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 Save it as anythingyoulike.reg, then double click on it. Accepting all the risk warnings that windows throw at you. once you've done that you should be able to just run the simcity.exe in wherever you unzipped the SC2k folder. Simple eh? Title: Re: sim city Post by: nevillew on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 14:19:13 Can't remember how many Neville, but I'm pretty sure the last level involves aliens, if that helps? Thanks (and fb). I've only played the playstation version which I think only has 9 levels. I was hoping the pc version might have more Title: Re: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 14:39:18 Changed my mind about it being the read only settings on the folder. I think it must be because simcity2k probably uses some super old load/save dialogue box which is no longer supported.
Not sure there's really a way round this. Title: Re: sim city Post by: Samdy Gray on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 16:00:29 Thanks (and fb). I've only played the playstation version which I think only has 9 levels. I was hoping the pc version might have more I will double check when I get home and let you know. Title: Re: sim city Post by: Leggett on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 23:42:05 Got my town up to 10,000 people, but then everything went tits up and the population halved. loads of derelict buildings and such. hmmmmm...
Title: Re: sim city Post by: flammableBen on Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 23:59:39 not suffering from power/water shortage?
Title: Re: sim city Post by: Leggett on Thursday, April 28, 2011, 06:10:48 Nope, tax at R 10%, I 9%, C 9%, fire, police and school built, not that close to two coal power stations.
Title: Re: sim city Post by: sonicyouth on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 17:49:58 Sim City 4 Deluxe is £2.50 on Steam.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/24780/ Title: Re: sim city Post by: Bennett on Thursday, May 5, 2011, 20:28:47 the steam store appears to be broken :(
Title: Re: sim city Post by: pauld on Thursday, May 5, 2011, 20:49:36 the steam store appears to be broken :( Could you not just boil the kettle?Title: Re: sim city Post by: Bennett on Friday, May 6, 2011, 06:27:14 how bored were you to think that up?
Title: Re: sim city Post by: pauld on Friday, May 6, 2011, 08:03:31 It does kind of shine through, doesn't it? Although I didn't sit round cogitating for ages to come up with the perfect bon mot - it was more a flash of inspiration, a moment of genius if you will
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