SimCity 2000. Has anyone ever had this working on a GFX card? (& a little TFX question too)

[FuZion]

Is there a WHDLoad installer coming to help or is there a patch out there somewhere?

I never actually played it simply waiting for a patch or something.

The TFX question... Patches again ;-) Does anyone have this game running without wanting to crash & I'm sure an 060 could run this a bit faster, who knows the answer to these ones?

Thanks.

[itix]

Get Shapeshifter and Sim City 2000 for Macintosh. Apparently Sim City 2000 runs faster in the Mac emulation than natively on Amiga.

[AmiDelf]

The Amiga version, is the best graphically. It might be slow, but for me. The Amiga version is actually the best one.

You could use a Modeid program to get SC2000 run on your gfx card, but I've heard its hard. We should spam Maxis about this

Regards,
Michal Bergseth, editor of Amitopia
url: www.amitopia.tk

[FuZion]

I've tried ModePro but the game crashes :-(

I think Maxis would like a tin of Spam on the subject ;-)

[KennyR]

TFX and SimCity2000 bang the hardware and won't ever work on a graphics card. (unless you run them on UAE, which sort of damages the point...).

[Graak]

Nah, it works if you promote it with ModePro, but you must set "Force planar" in ModePro to make it work.

[Legerdemain]

Actually I haven't noticed any difference in the in-game-graphics between the AMiGA and Mac versions. But, it was a couple of months since it played it, so I might remember things wrong.

In whatever case, with Shapeshifter running on a plain A1200 with a 030 card the mac version of Sim City 2000 runs smoother than the AMiGA version does on a 060. I've managed to get the AMiGA version running on a GFX-card aswell, but that made it even slower than normal.

[KennyR]

Nah, it works if you promote it with ModePro, but you must set "Force planar" in ModePro to make it work.

Doesn't work. The game loads and displays but the buttons have no text. Maybe it works on P96(?), but not CGX3/4.

[Graak]

OK. It worked for me (Mediator/Voodoo3/Picasso96).

Well, on 030 it must be slow but it works ok with 68060 Mediator+Voodoo. The bus is not used more, so it's a CPU issue when converting bitmaps. Every time this comes up someone mentions Mac. There's n+1 reasons why that is not feasible, but the most notable are obtaining a Mac-version (even OS), and the fact that running a Mac emulator (especially for software that exists natively) is quite irritating, more resources are used and so on. SC2k even uses AmigaOS for many interface components which is nice.

[itix]

Thematic wrote:

There's n+1 reasons why that is not feasible, but the most notable are obtaining a Mac-version (even OS), and the fact that running a Mac emulator (especially for software that exists natively) is quite irritating, more resources are used and so on. SC2k even uses AmigaOS for many interface components which is nice.

But Mac version still operates faster.

[KennyR]

There's too much inconvience in loading a Mac emulator every time you want to play a game. And not everyone wants to, either.

[GPT]

You don't need a patch for gfx cards.

Just hold down a shift key and start simcity2000 and it will ask you what screenmode it will use.

It works with my BVision card.

But you could use the patch for the english version that is on aminet so the it won't crash.

[GPT]

And I DON'T use any screenmode promoters.

[lempkee]

GPT: great answer.... works splendid....thanx alot!