Simcity 2000 amiga

[spirantho]

I discussed the Amigaversion with someone on aw.net (it might actually been the coder for the Amigaversion) and he said that some patches available on Aminet speed up the game a lot.

Unlikely to have been the coder of the Amiga version - he's not registered on any Amiga forums. I know this because he's about 100 feet away from me at the moment, just down the corridor....

I do remember him saying he had a heck of job with it, though, I think - I'm not sure the source code was very nice or something (he did tell me once). It's not lack of skill though - he also did Speedball II, Ultima VI and other things and he's a very talented coder. One thing's for sure - it wasn't a "lazy attempt" at porting...

[spirantho]

I know he did the CD32 version, anyway (not the original A500 version). Apparently it was hell on earth trying to get it to work in 256 colours at decent speed.

Am I correct in thinking, however, that SC2000 actually said on the box that it required a 68030? I have a vague feeling it said something like that... but I could be wrong.

[spirantho]

The Voodoo III will make no difference at all, as it's using OS calls throughout, I believe (does it even run on a graphics card? Wasn't aware that it did...). As for it being unplayable on an 060... I spent many many hours on my Blizzard MkII (50MHz) playing SC2000.. I guess people have different standards these days...

[spirantho]

It may be displaying on a graphics card, but that doesn't mean it's really using it - it'll still be using Chip RAM, as it'll be using the original OS3.0 routines... so it'll be just as slow as AGA. Hence why it's so much faster under SS which uses RTG routines.