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[The Fifth Horseman]

Are you running the game in DosBox?

I am having that same problem!

[The Fifth Horseman]

Then answer my question:
ARE. YOU. USING. DOSBOX???

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Craig @ Dec 5 2005, 06:13 PM) [snapback]186475[/snapback]</div>

I used to love this game- I have the CD-ROM, but it works on ME and not XP. The best parts are creating robots (use nuclear test on a nanotech age city), having a planetary exodus (use monolith on a nanotech age city) and destroying the entire planet (kill all life with natural disasters and wait until timescale reaches 5 billion- you get a message saying that your planet's sun has exploded). Also, for some reason the game always crashed when robots became intelligent, and I noticed that carnivorous plants appear as animals- has anyone got them to hang around enough to become intelligent?
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ZOMG, there I thought, for years, that I was the only one that discovered that game had androids as a life-being. I mean, hell, it's not even recorded in the manuals, help files or index of content!

After my game crashed I could never get the robots back.

Carnivorous plants are easy to cultivate and raise them to be sentient. All you need to do is destroy all life-forms on earth and then add insects in. The plants will soon grow from the insects.

[laiocfar]

nice game, i lost it for many years.

[laiocfar]

hohohohohoho,
i managed to reproduce the robots mentionet upsupra, i think that they are related to nanothech age and many nuclear destruction.

have tried running this on xp using dosbox 0.65 seemed to install okay when I used the setup.bat, but when I tried to run i got the following error..

FATAL ERROR: PROGRAM ABORTED
FALLOC NOMEM 0:_fmalloc(0)

I haven't used DOS in many many years, or sim earth for that matter, but don't remember coming across this one.

What do I have to do to make it work?

I downloaded dosbox but cant figure out how to run the game in dosbox.
i tried running it without dosbox and got the garbage letters. so how do i run it in dosbox?

[The Fifth Horseman]

You might want to check out the official DosBox FAQ, and particularly this part of it. It is quite helpful for users unfamiliar with DosBox.

I suggest you also read the pages about command line, internal programs (very important!) and the config file.

If that stuff is a bit too much for you, you might consider using one of the multiple frontend programs available.

It's all easier then it seems. So remember:
DON'T PANIC!!!

[GTX2GvO]

DosBox?!!?

Check the ISO ART site

The uploaded version is the Windows (3.x) Edition.

Should work in XP