Im surprised nobody told about this, but I have heard that the Amiga version of Sim City 2000 is actually the Mac version running on some kind of emulator or something. It wasnt a true port, thats why its so slow. Dont know where I heard about it. Maybe it was Amiga Format.
Not that I question what you have heard or read... but it just sounds very doubtful? I find it strange that the coders over at Maxis had any real experience in programming emulators, but sure... the main engine of the game was what had to be rewritten, the rest of the data was probably just recycled. I find it weird that they implented some kind of emulator, which used the regular AMiGA intuition for the windows, the everything, mostly...?
Anyways... concerning the game... and the ones released in the series later on... in my humble opinion they never managed to recreate the magic of Sim City 2000. What I loved about the game was that it took an hour to learn but a lifetime to master... Sim City 4 I have played for many hours, but I still don't get everything and I am really having a hard time enjoying the game since I can't manage everything there is to manage in the cities to make them evolve properly. Sim City 3000 I simply detest, because first of all it lacks the terrain editor, second of all there are no things to "win", you simple have your 20 or so special buildings to decorate your town with and they cost nothing at all. Where is the challange? The graphics are okay, but the game does not simply play like Sim City 2000 (it was ages since I played it, but when I did I played it much and never got around enjoying it, so I might have gotten things wrong here).
Maxis have really not done much to impress me lately. Some dozen of different versions of The Sims... the upcoming The Sims 2... and the extremely slow, hardware demanding and complex Sim City 4000 (which probably is a great game once one have learned how it really works)... they all seem a bit, uhm, unoriginal and not so imaginative... kind of stuck in the concept only making more and more out of it until the bubble bursts... but, maybe I am just getting old and out of date...
