ewilts%Janus.MRC.AdhocNet.CA@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Ed Wilts - CandianOxy) (06/14/89)
>SimCity doesn't function on an '020 Amiga, and ELITE doesn't function on either >or both an '020 or a memory-expanded Amiga. > >------- >SimCity >------- > >Booting the disk, clicking on the SimCity icon, the "Road Sign" comes up and >all seems normal. Per instructions: Click on "Start New City", the mouse >pointer changes, disk gronks for awhile, then return to Workbench, and nada. >Not even after waiting 10 minutes does anything happen. Sort of like the >Spectrum Holobyte "FALCON". Hmmm, wonder if Broderbund/Spectrum Holobyte/Maxis >are in cahoots? Prior comments in this newsgroup alluded to the author of >SimCity being a C=64 hack ... it shows. Turning off the instruction cache >makes no difference; this "program" claims to need expanded memory, so I didn't >try the "tricks" as with ELITE (below). Almost as bad as "BALANCE OF POWER"; >gee, what IS it with these Macintosh ports to the Amiga? :-( > >Well, this turkey goes out the window and over the fence unless someone wants >to buy it before the FAUG meeting; best offer over $30 gets it. Close but no cigar. I played SimCity (version 1.0) on a 2500 today. Works fine for me. I believe that your problem may be that you are using an overscanned WB (which I do at home and had similar problems to what you are describing). I loaded the SimCity disk on to the 2500's hard disk (the instructions are wrong - there is a single file that won't copy due to copy protection but just ignore this file) and used the original as a key disk. I played it for about 2 hours today. Of course I forgot about slowing down the simulation (I had it set at fast since I haven't read the instructions yet - just got the game on Friday and been playing my brains out since) but it ran without a hitch. I didn't use their version of SetPatch and had nothing spectaular running in the background. It was running WB 1.3 with Kickstart 1.3 in ROM. In the future, please try booting a standard WorkBench before lighting the flame thrower :-). .../Ed (EWilts%Janus.MtRoyal.AB.CA@UncaNet.Bitnet) Ed Wilts Sr. Systems Analyst, Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. Calgary, Alberta, Canada (403) 234-1007
thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (06/16/89)
Re: Ed Wilts' comment about booting a standard WB before flaming ... :-) Sheesh. I booted the SimCity master disk itself. Can't get more standard than that, eh? :-) It wouldn't boot on the dealer's systems either. Per other comments in this newsgroup: contact Maxis for a corrected update to SimCity ... one that'll work on an Amiga. Per Ali's comments, even the Mac version of SimCity won't work on all Macs. Looks like Maxis needs a lesson about software QA. Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]