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SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity (PC)

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Compilation/Simulation

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Electronic Arts

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Electronic Arts

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Often considered the origin of city simulation (and of simulation in general — games like The Sims would probably not exist today) is Maxis's SimCity 2000. Players create their own city by strategically placing certain kinds of buildings, parks, and water. But that's not where the game ends, it is where it begins: players must manage the taxes of the city, attract more citizens, avoid natural disasters, compete with neighboring towns, and so much more. The other included game in the compilation, Streets of SimCity, allows players to import their towns from SimCity 2000 and experience them from a street-level perspective, while completing missions as one of four characters. ~ Jeremy Lee, All Game Guide

SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity (PC)

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dowekeller played SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity on 08/MAR/10

“Building a city named Ur while I browse the web”

created 08/MAR/2010

dowekeller played SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity on 26/JAN/10

“Started a New City, today played a little then got bored ”

created 26/JAN/2010

Great video about game development and graphics by three pioneering game designers. by: dowekeller

“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Lk5QOp1qc Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia), Rand Miller (Myst), and Will Wright (SimCity) talk about the history of computer graphics and game design.”

created 13/DEC/2009

Simman was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“o.o 2hrs long? I dont have that kind of patience man...”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“It is a long vid, and it seems the Computer History Museum spent about 30 minutes of it plugging themselves/begging for donations (I'm not dissing the CHM, they're doing important work), but I'd keep a link to it, anyway. It does have a lot of good insight into game design, and how escalating computer graphics capabilities impacted three important, and very different game designers.”

Jwallwalrus was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I thought youtube had a 10 min limit on videos because they sold out.... those bastards!”

WILDMAMMOTH was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Jwallwalrus You're alive!”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Jwallwalrus They must make exceptions, maybe some kind of premium pay service, because the CHMs vids are often an hour long or more.”

Jwallwalrus was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@WILDMAMMOTH yes i am, sadly my roommates have been playing more of my modern warfare 2 than I have!”

WILDMAMMOTH was the last to comment - over 3 years ago... show previous hide previous

“@Jwallwalrus You've just got to take it back from them then.”

Boxer a boon for Mac MS-DOS gamers by: dowekeller

“If your like me and you have a lot of old MS-DOS games around that you enjoy playing, and you own a Mac, you might want to check out Boxer It allows you to play DOS games with a click of a...”

created 23/NOV/2009

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Is it easier to use then Dosbox? Dosbox can be kinda hard to use if you never used DOS, took me quite a while to figure it out.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Yes, they even have some sample programs already set up, DOS demos and such like Ultima Underworld, Epic Pinball and X-Com. And they give you some pretty detailed instructions on how to set up your own games so they launch just like a Mac App.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Well I've never used Mac, does it launch like Windows?”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I think Mac and Windows launches applications the same way, but Boxer is a Mac OS-X app. There should be something similar on Windows however.”

Fallout2Forever was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I really wish that someone would make a version of DOSbox or whatever that is more user friendly.”

Ashbelthor was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“*laughs at MAC users*”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Ashbelthor Lol”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Fallout2Forever, here's the URL to a page that has a bunch of DOSBox front-ends, none seem to do EXACTLY what boxer does, but one might be what your looking for.

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBoxFrontends
@Ashbelthor WTF?? ”

Ashbelthor was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@dowekeller I seriously don't understand the use for a Macintosh.
I've been using Win XP for the last 3 years and haven't encountered a single virus.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Lucky you, I've been administering my parents computer for about the same time and have regularly had to deal with viri, worms and other malware not just on their personal directory's, but spread across the whole system. If Microsoft had Microsoft at least warned customers that their security is a joke, and almost anything can gain root privileges and rape the system, I'd at least known to not use it on an internet connected machine. To pile insult onto injury, configuration is obscure, and documentation exists only for shallow problems that only the most computer illiterate users would encounter. I ended up having to wipe the drives and re-install the OS multiple times, not because this was strictly necessary (I don't know if it was or not), but because there was no intermediate to advanced system documentation on the box, anywhere.

At least with OS X, I have the man pages! I also have a real C compiler, Java compiler, perl, and a bourne compatible shell, not to mention GNU-emacs. I didn't have to buy them, I didn't even have to download them from the net, they come with the system.

BTW, I finally convinced my parents to let me install Ubuntu Linux on their system, they love it and there has been no more malware problems in approx. 6 months.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I however have nothing against other people running Microsoft Windows, I just don't have patience for it.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Yeah, I haven't had a virus is what? Over five years?

Yet the MAC ads still bring that up, god I hate those ads.

Anyone notice that the PC guy is a lovable goof, while the Mac guy is a Smug D-bag?”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I'll agree with that whole heartedly, the Mac adds are more off-putting than they should be, but Apple manages to sell boxes, so my complaining isn't going to matter.

I don't have any real Windows experience outside of a work environment, at least not since Windows 95 (A real dog, you couldn't even compile a program and play a game at the same time without it crashing). I know lots of people who have managed to use it for a long time with no failures. I do know that they have no decent documentation for computer literate users. All help files assume you have a PEBKAC error.”

Zedo-P-Mann was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I personally don't like the Mac hardware. You have to use what's in it, and in the case that anything breaks, you have to buy a new unit, instead of replacing the broken part. This also kills off upgrades a little bit. Instead of being able to put a new GPU or RAM in, you Mac users have to, I don't know, plug something into your Mac?

The fact that the Mac software ONLY runs on Mac hardware keeps me away from the Mac OS.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“There already are lots of good Unices for those boxes that are free to download, I like FreeBSD (which the designers of OS X liked to apparently since that's what it's built on). All in one boxes, like the iMac are a compromise you get a compact package without a mess of wires and such (which is what made me purchase my machine), but you do loose upgradability. I am not a big modder, by the time I'm ready to go to a new faster gpu, generally my cpu and motherboard are obsolete too, so I might as well replace the whole box (replacing memory in iMacs is actually quite easy). But if I was interested in hot-rodding my box, I probably would have bought a separate computer and screen. If your interested in upgrading to Unix though, there are several options that are freely downloadable, my favorites are Debian GNU/Linux, and Free BSD.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“How much of the home computer market does MAC have anyway? A few years back, I heard they only had 5-10%.

That's what makes me really hate the ads, if more people had Macs, there would be just as many viruses for it.

What it really comes down to it, I'm a gamer, and Macs are not for gamers.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“They have about 5-10%, which makes them like the largest manufacturer of PCs unless you group all the little no-name box makers, then they dwarf everybody. Computers are a commodity, no one company is going to dominate that market.

As for the viruses thing, yes and no. The fact is that when your talking hardware, all viruses will run on all Intel based PCs, that's to be expected. And someone could write a virus that would infect a PC running OS X. However, there is NO excuse for viri to be able to get root access. That's what I was angry about re Windows, and if OS X had a hole like that, I'd promptly wipe my drive and install FreeBSD.

Macs aren't for gamers simply because, historically speaking gamer's haven't bought Macs. If the demographic shifted, then more games would be ported to the Mac. I am also a gamer, but if you looked at the amount of time I spent gaming compared to the amount of time I spend doing other computer related tasks, gaming ends up being at best a large minority of my computing time. I'm not going to put up with sub-optimal crap for the majority of my day, for a slightly larger collection of games.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“As it stands now, I probably spend too much of my time gaming.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Aren't MAC much more expensive? What do you mean by Sub-optimal?”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Mac's are a bit more expensive compared to equivalent machines from other name brand manufacturers, but I'm not talking price or even hardware, but software. I find Windows to be inferior to every other PC OS. I don't want to have to build my own box, and a lot of PCs have (or at least at the time when I bought my Mac, had) peripherals that have no guts in them, the driver does all the work. The manufacturers only write drivers for Windows. So if I wanted a non-Mac machine, I would have had to carefully pick and choose only those peripherals that had drivers for BSD or Linux. The resulting box would cost the same or slightly more than the iMac, and it came with Unix and had a convenient form-factor for my small home as well. So for me it was a win-win situation.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Have you used Windows 7? It kicks ass.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“No, It may be great, that's super if it is. Microsoft could have won me over when I had a Windows 95 machine, I found that OS to be so unstable as to be useless. I started playing with a small Minix in a box app at about that time, found I really liked Unix's structure, and the fact that it did for programmers what Mac OS and Windows supposably did for users, made everything easier. A little while later, I stumbled onto Linux and rather quickly chose to wipe my drive and install Debian over the internet (using a 28.8 mbps modem no less). I loved Linux and used it for a couple years when I got a new box and shopped around and found the FreeBSD was more of a fit for me. Sometime after that, I experimented with a friends computer running XP and my initial opinion was that MS had pulled their collective head out of their ass and built a decent OS. I didn't switch, because I was comfortable with what I had.

The only real experience I've had with windows outside of that was at work (where if the stupid box crashed it was somebody else's problem), and with my parent's box of horrors.

I would never have bought and Apple iMac if it weren't for some bad experiences trying to find FreeBSD/Linux drivers for a laptop I owned previously. I was tired of working around other peoples stupidity.

I think the computer market is big enough for everyone to have a piece of the pie, in fact I look forward to more OSes and architectures, as the market becomes less of a monoculture, viruses will die out (because there won't be one big fat stupid target), and software developers will be pushed to write portable code that will recompile and run on a range of machines.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I think I may have used Windows 95 some when I was in grade school, and yeah, it was a piece of shit, haha.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Windows started as a graphical shell that ran on top of MS-DOS (in fact you can run Windows up to 3.11 inside DOSbox (I've done it)). When they made Windows 95, they added multi-tasking, but rather than rewrite an OS with full protected memory and preemptive multitasking, they stayed with the old Windows over MS-DOS code, and wrote a botch of a task switcher into it. They managed to sell this same box of $#!% all the way up to Windows ME. Everything after that is based off of Windows NT, and although they both are called Windows, NT has no connection to Win95/98/ME. It is in-fact a near clone of DEC's old VMS operating system. As for Win 7, I don't know, but If I had to guess I'd say it's a new version of the NT code-base, like its predecessors.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“No clue, you seem to know much more about how computers work then I do, I know how to put them together, but not really what makes them tick.”

Zedo-P-Mann was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minwin”

Zedo-P-Mann was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“That is the Windows Vista/7 Kernel.

Here is the architecture of Windows NT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_kernel”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Most gamers are hardware literate because of their need for higher frame-rates. I've been into programming since the early 1980's, and have gotten into IBM PCs relatively late, being mostly a Commodore Geek. I know a lot of computer history, partly because I'm old enough to have witnessed it, but also because I am both a computer geek and a history buff.”

Quarex was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Can we get back to talking about DOS games?!?

I tried to rally support on DOSGamers.com for people actually buying old DOS-based laptops/desktops for incredibly low prices rather than using emulation software, but oddly, the whole "free and incredibly easy in comparison" aspect of DOSBox and Boxer seems to be more appealing. Go figure.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Zedo-P-Mann, sounds like this Minwin is supposed to be a micro-kernel running NT on top of it. Micro-kernels are supposed to be better than monolithic, kernels, but I've not seen a difference from the user or programmer prospective, I've run systems with monolithic kernels, such as Linux and traditional FreeBSD, and I've run micro-kernels like OS X (which is based on Mach IIRC). Computer scientists like micro-kernels, but one of the big reasons the FSF had trouble completing the GNU system was that their fancy micro-kernel HURD was so hard to debug.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Quarex, emulation wins IMNSHO, unless the original hardware was just so unique. Nothing will replace the feel of an old Atari VCS console, and the tiny 9-inch screen, long travel keyboard and boxy mouse of the original Macintosh cannot be replicated in software (yet), but most old MS-DOS machines were indistinguishable from modern systems except for their innards, so emulation is a definite win. Except the keyboards, IBM won my heart with the original PC keyboard!”

Fallout2Forever was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“@Quarex Anyone here ever play the original Lands Of Lore: The Throne of Chaos? I think it still has one of the most unique battle systems I've ever seen in a game. Plus, the first party member to permanently join you was beyond awesomesauce, with 4 arms, letting him carry 2 weapons and 2 shields!

Too bad the sequels were massively dumbed down, and turned into action rpgs.”

Quarex was the last to comment - over 3 years ago... show previous hide previous

“DoweKeller: I see your point about emulation in this regard; there really was basically no difference between the DOS computers of yesteryear and the Windows computers of today, at least none that nostalgia has much to work with ... other than those keyboards. And, of course, true to form, I still only use those PS/2 keyboards, even going so far as to continue installing keyboard serial port cards in my new systems just to make sure I have no trouble with getting them to work.

Fallout2Forever: I picked up one of the two aforementioned dumbed-down sequels this summer at an auction for $3, but I still have never played the original. I did hear that it was the best of the series.”

dowekeller played SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity on 22/NOV/09

“Thallerburg is nearly to 16000, and still only two streets.”

created 22/NOV/2009

dowekeller played SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity on 16/NOV/09

“Thallerburg throws out a pseudopod towards Oak Creek, the last of the four surrounding cities not tied into it's growing economy. ”

created 16/NOV/2009

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago... show previous hide previous

“Of course.”

Down-town Thallerburg

“This is down-town Thallerburg and it's "beautiful" Marina Parkway/Industry Zone 1.”

Added by: dowekeller
Date: 10/NOV/2009
Views: 153
Votes: 2

created 10/NOV/2009

LordXenophon was the last to comment - over 3 years ago... show previous hide previous

“Splitter!”

dowekeller played SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity on 10/NOV/09

“Thallerburg is slowly building up into a real city.”

created 10/NOV/2009

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago... show previous hide previous

“My cities aren't that photogenic, trust me. Imagine Dickens' London * 2 + urban sprawl + gridlock traffic. Nobody moves to Thallerburg because they want to, they were driving through when their car's carburetor gunked up from all the air pollution and stalled.”

dowekeller played SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity on 09/NOV/09

“Started a new city called Thallerburg, nice little town, that I hope to try some stuff in.”

created 09/NOV/2009

dowekeller played SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity on 04/NOV/09

“Playing Sims City 2000 in background while I do other stuff, thinking of letting my city run overnight (with disasters turned off) and see what it looks like in the morning.”

created 04/NOV/2009

dowekeller played SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity on 02/NOV/09

“Just killed time building cities.”

created 02/NOV/2009

SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity (PC) by: dowekeller

“This is the first Sim City game I ever had, I got SC3K later, but lost the disk, I just love Sim City 2000, next to The Sims 2, the most addicting game around.”

created 02/NOV/2009

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“My first Simcity game I had was the SNES version, man I had tons of fun with that game.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I like it because its hugely addicting and can run in dosbox while I'm surfing the web, or anything else.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Dosbox is a godsend, haha.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Makes me wonder, you think in 20 years, well need a program like Dosbox to run our current games?”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Probably, even if (as in my case), I'll be running essentially the same os at the lower layers, the graphics and sound and probably by that time haptic, olfactory, you name it interface will be much different than anything we can imagine. Much more advanced than what current tech is over say an EGA PC with a soundblaster. After-all technological progress is logarithmic, not linear. PCs as we know them today may not even exist. So sure there will be emulators for older systems.”

EarthboundX was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I hope so, even in 20 years, I'll still be playing Nintendo games, and I'm sure I'll be playing current games as well.”

dowekeller was the last to comment - over 3 years ago... show previous hide previous

“Yeah, great games will always have a place, that's why were seeing stuff like Wolf3d and even Pac-Man on the Xbox360. The best games of today will be classics just as the best games from the 1980s.”

SimCity 2000/Streets of SimCity (PC) by: Zeath4182

“the best sim game ever i hate what they have done to this franchise”

created 26/OCT/2009

Dam Power

“Because you can never have too much dam power.”

Added by: LordXenophon
Date: 19/OCT/2009
Views: 740
Votes: 3

created 19/OCT/2009

LordXenophon was the last to comment - over 3 years ago... show previous hide previous

“I have an even crazier way to get power from water. I'll post a screenshot if I can find the floppy I saved it on.”

Whataburg

“Here's what SimCity 2000 has which the other versions of SimCity don't have - arcologies!”

Added by: LordXenophon
Date: 04/OCT/2009
Views: 614
Votes: 8

created 04/OCT/2009

ChangeAgent was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Yeah the arcologies were really awesome. Don't know why they didn't carry those into other examples.”

Tonysmallz was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“I Down Loaded a freeware Version of 2000 The Other Day Still Such a Great Game.... Xeno Do You Play OpenTTD Much”

LordXenophon was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“Never have.”

Tonysmallz was the last to comment - over 3 years ago...

“i think its right up your street

http://www.openttd.org/en/

http://www.transporttycoon.net/

give it a look.. it has great multi player and is very strategic i love after i have a millionaire company and my HQ has expanded, sittin back and gazing over my empire...”