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SimCity 2000

Started by DrMartinus, 2007.06.17, 12:48:57

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DrMartinus

The simulation game by Maxis for OS/2. Any gamers around? 3 disks, all in good shape. No manual.
Anyone interested please contact me.

sXwamp

#1
If you still have it, I would love to have this game!  I wasted many days playing SimCity.

Greggory Shaw

Robert Deed

I have it, however it stopped working with OS/2 quite some time ago (worked on Warp4 and WSeb (even with newer fixpacks)   I suspect it was one of the revisions of SNAP that have killed it.  The application loads and then just freezes the machine solid, even background services (file sharing etc) lock (I couldn't even ping the machine on my lan after it froze). 

It might just not like my 1600x1200 desktop display too..  however I am quite fond of it! 

Lately I've been playing OpenTransportationTycoon  which is much newer, using SDL even works in fullscreen (though it is much faster as a maximized window then in fullscreen mode). 

Quote from: sXwamp on 2007.06.17, 14:09:19
If you still have it, I would love to have this game!  I wasted many days playing SimCity.

Greggory Shaw

PAUL555



Hi Dr Martinus ,   

     Will it be possible to send me the Iso floppy images of Sim City 2000 for Os/2 thru email as attachments if you no longer have any use for this ?   

Regards

Nirmal

Bill

Quote from: Robert Deed on 2007.06.21, 20:45:44

Lately I've been playing OpenTransportationTycoon  which is much newer, using SDL even works in fullscreen (though it is much faster as a maximized window then in fullscreen mode). 

Robert,   I have an old copy of Railroad Tycoon but nothing for Transport Tycoon.  I have seen some info on TT but assumed that I would need the original before I could play it.    Is this true???    Thanks,  Bill Scarlett

Robert Deed

I belive the original transportation tycoon was released
to freeware. I had downloaded it from a freeware gaming site.


Quote from: Bill Scarlett on 2008.01.13, 19:49:38
Quote from: Robert Deed on 2007.06.21, 20:45:44

Lately I've been playing OpenTransportationTycoon  which is much newer, using SDL even works in fullscreen (though it is much faster as a maximized window then in fullscreen mode). 

Robert,   I have an old copy of Railroad Tycoon but nothing for Transport Tycoon.  I have seen some info on TT but assumed that I would need the original before I could play it.    Is this true???    Thanks,  Bill Scarlett

miturbide


uhm... just something I saw today.

http://www.osnews.com/story/19152/SimCitys_Source_Code_Released_Under_GPL

"SimCity's Source Code Released Under GPL
The source code to the original SimCity game has been released under the GPL, with all references to the SimCity name removed due to copyright trademark issues; it is now called Micropolis. You can download the source code, or read a bit more about it. SimCity is one of the most critically acclaimed games in history."
Martín Itúrbide
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Robert Deed

That would be the original version most likely.  I am assuming they released it without the SimCity OS/2 Code which added multithreading to the basic game (the original game was very limited, the addition of multithreaded logic made the OS/2 version a little more interesting).

SimCity 2000 would be a great thing if they would release the code to that, it was the most functional OS/2 game of it;s time.. too bad it doesn't work in high resolutions. 

My favorite OS/2 game of all time was Hopkins FBI.. but I doubt we will ever hear anything of that again.

Quote from: miturbide on 2008.01.15, 16:14:52

uhm... just something I saw today.

http://www.osnews.com/story/19152/SimCitys_Source_Code_Released_Under_GPL

"SimCity's Source Code Released Under GPL
The source code to the original SimCity game has been released under the GPL, with all references to the SimCity name removed due to copyright trademark issues; it is now called Micropolis. You can download the source code, or read a bit more about it. SimCity is one of the most critically acclaimed games in history."

John

Hi all,

Re. Gaming under OS/2, I bought a few games a no. of years back (Hopkins FBI, Vigilance on Talos, Entrepreneur, Trials of Battle, Galactic Civ etc) and seeing that they're no longer supported was thinking I should convert them all to ISO's and upload them somewhere like Vintage Gaming. This will give some people the opportunity to enjoy those games of the past. Unfortunately, bandwidth this side of the world is both expensive and slow, so I could possibly upload 1 game per month. Any ideas of where I could start?

BigWarpGuy

Perhaps you could copy them to a cd and have some one with higher band width upload them?  ???

8)

John

Hi,

Don't really know anyone prepared to do so for me, but am willing myself to upload the ISO files as have already converted Hopkins and Entrepreneur. I know it's probably illegal but I would consider them Abandonware. Looking for advise on a free FTP site or any other for that matter I could upload these ISO files to where other OS/2 users can benefit from downloading and playing them. I myself considering these games abandonware, don't support software piracy, but there are many sites around where one can get cracked copies of current and latest software esp for the M$ platform. I paid for the software originally and now 10 years later think it's only fair I share those software titles with whomever.

Cheers,

John.

PAUL555


Hi John , 

     Do you have the game Avarice for OS/2 ? That was considered the best adventure game of all time for the OS/2 platform.   

Regards

Paul

Ben

Quote from: PAUL555 on 2008.01.17, 17:19:33
Do you have the game Avarice for OS/2 ? That was considered the best adventure game of all time for the OS/2 platform.   
I have copies of both Avarice and Avarice Preview, (which were two separate, though similar games).

I'm not sure how Stardock would take it, but I wouldn't mind making them...
------ through one means or another.

Robert Deed

Would be cool.. get a FTP together, and make it 20 bucks per iso and then send the money to the original developers.. lol.. wish we had enough users willing to do that to send a good deal of cash to them and make them feel stupid for not supporting products which were already complete...

Really never understood it.. you spend the money you write the software you have it all working, then you take the product off the market.. which removes any (slight) possibility of having a return on your investment.  If stardock kept with the entrepreneur engine they could have made slight modifications and additions to the game and kept selling that product for years.

BigWarpGuy

I have Avarice but it had problems occasionally. I was very nice game. I will have to find it and try it again. I have to turn off the sound since I was told that caused some problems (the sound settings in the game).  ;D