So, I just copied the whole disk to my hard drive and mounted that directory under DOSBOX. Not only did that work, it worked very, very well. I got the game installed and was able to play. There are, however, a few things that worked a little goofy. For instance, you cannot start the game in full screen. You have to start it windowed, then, once the game is running-that is, once you seen the terrain-you can ALT-TAB to go full screen. Now, his laptop is an HP 17 inch entertainment laptop. It has Vista Home Premium 64 bit, 4gb ram, pretty decent ATI graphics, etc. I expected everything to run as it did on my machine-also an HP. Well, for reasons I don’t understand, his keyboard maps differently under DOSBOX. Bringing up the key mapper fixed that problem, but it was a goofy issue nonetheless. So, I copied the SC2000 directory from my computer to his computer and then gave it a try. However, starting DOSBOX, mapping a drive and the starting the game was more than I wanted him to have to remember. He is, after all, only eleven years old-and, yes, it is a fancy laptop for him, but it will have to last several years so we went a bit overboard. Anyway, you can create an ‘autoexec.bat’ type of script for DOSBOX. It goes in the config file under the Autoexec section. #SIMCITY 2000 WINDOWS 7 HOW TO#Īfter setting that up, I put an icon on his desktop and explained how to switch to full screen once the game starts. Here’s the section I put in his config file for DOSBOX: He can remember ALT-TAB, he has used it on other things. # Lines in this section will be run at startup. The config file can be found in the C:Program Files (x86)DOSBox-0.72 if you are running 64 bit Windows, or in C:Program FilesDOSBox-0.72 if you are running 32 bit Windows. Remember to change ‘sc2000’ to the directory where you installed the game. While Vista’s compatibility with older software is excellent, there are apps that it just will not handle. Most old DOS games have various problems and DOSBOX seems to do the trick. I have a small collection of older games that I want to try now.Īnd for those of you who do not use Windows, DOSBOX is available for Linux and Mac OS X. It is a great way to play those old gems. UPDATE: Since I originally posted this, GOG.COM is now selling a version of SimCity 2000 that will work with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8.
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