| 26-08-2015 05:44 PM | |||||
| FlyingCircus |
Hello! I finally installed dosbos + win3 + simtower. I can start everything and play the game. However, there is one thing that is quite frustrating. I can't enable fast mode. Any ideas how to fix that? Btw, I got everything from abandonia. So, I should have the same version as you guys have. |
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| 25-05-2013 01:45 AM | |||||
| tezakhiago | I'm trying to run this game using win3.1 through DOSbox. I've been able to install the game, although when I first tried to run simtower.exe, it attempted to find the best resolution for about 30 seconds, then just quit. No error message, and win 3.1 appeared to just completely freeze up. I quit Dosbox and tried again, and now it just freezes win 3.1 when I try to open the program. I've tried re-installing the game with no luck. Any suggestions? | ||||
| 14-08-2012 08:12 AM | |||||
| dosraider |
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Other valid possibilities: VPC/MsDos-W3 VPC/W98SE VPC/XP Win7 XP mode (however this one kinda sux for gaming purposes) VirtualBox/ + all those listed above VMWare/ + all those listed above Etcetera ....etcetera .... dosbox/W3 is far from 'the only way' to run that game ..... |
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| 14-08-2012 06:22 AM | |||||
| Ironlion |
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Regardless; this seems to be the only way to run Simtower on a modern PC. Might not be a bad idea to update the game page to note that? |
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| 13-08-2012 11:50 AM | |||||
| The Fifth Horseman | We already have one: http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=27770 | ||||
| 13-08-2012 05:07 AM | |||||
| Ironlion |
Belated reply, I know, but I had great success running this game in doxbox, with a windows 3.11 installation. That is, windows 3.11 running in dosbox. That allowed me to install it from my original SimTower CDROM (yeah I know, such a geek, but I was a huge maxis fan back then and bought every game they made). I checked with the version for download here and go it working too. For info on getting Win3.11 in Doxbox, there is good discussion of that here, including an example of a fully set up install with a properly configured dosbox.conf. Check it out. |
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| 28-12-2011 10:21 AM | |||||
| dosraider |
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Mostly the problem is that the installers -(devs laziness ????)- are 8bit, buggy or even MsDos -(more specific: W95 progs?)- based. ... and add some graph probs... etcetera. But a good programmed 16b prog will run fine in W7 32b. |
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| 28-12-2011 09:39 AM | |||||
| The Fifth Horseman |
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Not that it makes a difference, since nothing prevents you from running Windows 3 inside DOSBox. |
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| 27-12-2011 10:30 PM | |||||
| Dubslow |
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(Also these are the most ridiculously hard captchas ever.) |
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| 23-12-2011 05:36 AM | |||||
| dosraider |
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No 16b support in those. So, yes, once again: [Echo modeČ] Quote:
Ah well, sooner or later people will understand that you can't run 16b in 64b, or they never will ..... *sigh* |
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