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SimCity: Will Wright's City in a Box

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Re: SimCity: Will Wright's City in a Box

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Post by RankingMember »

cisstrd wrote: post #15

People who liked the old Sim City games might also like OpenTTD, a gplv2 licensed and heavily improved clone of the old Transport Tycoon Deluxe, it also includes Multiplayer. Under active development and also a nice community. You are the manager of your own startup transport company and have to build infrastructure, manage finances, routes, build rail system and set up signals to manage your trains, ... https://en.w…

OpenTTD is awesome, but it's really not the same without the original soundtrack.

I remember my friend getting both Simcity (MS-DOS) and Transport Tycoon for his birthday one year. We were super excited about Simcity, but that quickly waned once we learned to play Transport Tycoon. Such a great game.

Re: SimCity: Will Wright's City in a Box

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Post by erikb »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #14

The black-and-white Mac version looks so good - I wish I could play that. I got as far as downloading an old ROM image but can't quite get it in a format that 'Mini vMac' will accept :-(

Somewhere there must be a forum where people can help you with that. Or at least some Wisdom of the Ancients

https://xkcd.com/979/

Re: SimCity: Will Wright's City in a Box

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Post by traskjd »

speeder wrote: post #16
erikb wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you feel about the new games like Cities Skylines? How would you rate it against SC4?

Not OP either... I am a fan of city games and tried to mod SC4 with official sanction of EA (more on that later). Currently I like SC4 much more than C:S, for two reasons: 1. When properly fixed, SC4 is a much better simulator and challenging game than C:S 2. I like SC4 graphics more too, C:S graphics resemble cities that I never saw in my country, they are too bright, spacious, saturated and "happy" and "calm", it i…

>> When properly fixed, SC4 is a much better simulator and challenging game than C:S

Can you elaborate on what it means to be proper fixed? I still occasionally play SC4 but aren't involved enough to know what the quick wins are to mod it for modern play. Appreciate the feedback :-)

Re: SimCity: Will Wright's City in a Box

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Post by detritus »

hashkb wrote: post #18

I, for one, thought SimAnt was one of the most fun games of my childhood. And SimTower... I have a coding interview modeled after it.

SimAnt is the only game I can get to work on my Amiga1200, as it was installed on the HD - all the 3.5" disks I had otherwise have [obviously] rotted over the intervening 20+ years.

A great wee game - I always hoped they'd revisit the idea with an updated version. One day, perhaps!

Re: SimCity: Will Wright's City in a Box

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Post by wlesieutre »

hashkb wrote: post #18

I, for one, thought SimAnt was one of the most fun games of my childhood. And SimTower... I have a coding interview modeled after it.

Some fun history on SimTower:

> After my lecture, a Maxis employee who shall remain nameless buttonholed me. "You guessed right," she said. "Sim Tower was built around a real elevator simulation program we bought from a Japanese guy."

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2150/the_designers_not...

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