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1. #Simcity 2000 windows port install
2. #Simcity 2000 windows port 32 bit
3. #Simcity 2000 windows port Patch
4. #Simcity 2000 windows port software

I'm so happy to see this work, just wish someone would do Sim City Classic Windows, but I think that'll be a hard sell with Micropolis, even if it has to run from a sucky. I just happen to have a disc of it still after all these years. I'd love to see this added since I bought the DOS release in a pinch awhile back.Īs I said has this, part of their project that got permission to distro old PC games. HLP support files.Ĭlearly this works in Windows 64bit, will you GoG people be adding this if you can get the authors permission as the Win release is vastly superior to the lower res DOS version. Saving and loading files, all functions other than the dropped out of date.

#Simcity 2000 windows port install

I have the CD Collection which isn't the SE GoG(and ) has so I had to tweak it a bit grabbing a DLL and moving the subdirectories off my CD into the install directory where the new EXE was created but it does work 100%. It's beta so a little crude, but if you use the installer it will make a modern 64bit simcity.exe file on your computer and the game just works like it did 20 years ago. Public static final String SC2000DAT = "G:\\dos\\sce2000\\sc2000.I own the SC2K CD Collection and kept it all these years, but I could not use it with Win7 or now Win8 64bit because of the 16bit installer being blocked.

I’ve written a small Java program that makes this operation easy: Unpacking and packing, knowing this, is relatively simple. I wrote him to swap information and advised me about this point, which he didn’t finally describe in his article.

#Simcity 2000 windows port software

I owe the happy idea about the offset to Brett Lajzer, an Albany software engineer that began researching this file before me.

#Simcity 2000 windows port 32 bit

This is thus a 32 bit unsigned integer in little-endian format, which codifies the offset of the file just before. This means that numbers with more than one byte are stored ordered from the least significant byte to the most significant, instead of the “natural” ordering. These processors, unlike Intel‘s, are Little-Endian (being Intel Big-Indian). The other two bytes are not so evident, but it turns out that the game is originary from Macintosh, which at that time used Motorola processors. If there is leftover space, the rest of the bytes are 00h. The first field is evident: 12 bytes with the file name (8 + 3 characters of the MS-DOS file with the period). It turns out that from byte 0 the first we can find is 16-byte blocks that describe files contained in the pack. It does not have a header, but a short look in the hexadecimal editor throw some hints about its structure. But the most interesting is the data files we are describing down below.

Pointers are not evident in the executable, so I left it alone. There are also some embedded files, in which for example game scenarios are described.Īt the moment disassembling an executable from the early 90s is not one of my specialities, and thus I have not find out much. There are some texts representing variable-width labels, too. Open folder, double click on loader icon to play the game. After installation complete, go to the folder where you install the game. In the hexadecimal editor we can see some fixed-width labels. (Download Winrar) Open SimCity 2000 Special Edition folder, double click on Setup and install it. The game executable does not seem to have many resources, but it does have some interface texts. Unfortunately, Windows version didn’t came out in Spanish (my mother language), and Network Edition version works awfully bad (and it is available only in English).

#Simcity 2000 windows port Patch

There are two interesting files: the executable (SC2000.EXE) and the data file (SC2000.DAT). Installing the interoperability patch To host a game, launch 2KNET2KSERVER.EXE or use MrRongs HOST.CMD, which makes sure the correct port is open. There were ports in a great number of platforms, from the Macintosh (the original) to GameBoy Advance, but my favourite is MS-DOS, and it’s what this article is about.

And I have found some quite interesting things! I have always liked modifying games, but so far I haven’t been serious about decoding the data files of this city simulator. I’ve been playing it for 20 years and it’s partially responsible of my terrible grades at high school.

SimCity 2000 ( Maxis, 1993) is one of my superfavourite games, ever.