Sim City 2000 Template

I am now totally immersed in Sim City 2000; completely addictive and an easy way to lose hours of productive time!

I am a bit of a perfectionist, so prefer to design my own map template to optimise space for airports, seaports and mass land space. I also design large-sized waterfalls, so that I can use the hydro-electric powerplants for pollution free power.

You can get a copy of this here. Download the Zip file, and extract it into the root folder of the Sim City 2000 installation directory.

Install Sim City 2000 on Windows 7

My Dad has always been against violent games, that “teach you nothing”, so he always made thinking games available, such as Civilisation, Sim Theme Park and Sim City 2000. A lot of youth hours were spent locked in these games! I had to go to a friend’s place to get a crack at Doom.

I was wondering about Sim City 2000 the other day, and wondered if it would be possible to find a version on the Internet and see if I can get it working on Windows 7. At the very least, even if it wouldn’t work on Windows 7, then I could certainly get it working in XP Mode or with Windows Virtual PC and Windows 98/2000.

Well I managed to find a free copy of the game as well as instructions on how to get it working on Windows 7, just follow the steps below:

• Download Sim City 2000
• Extract the files to C:\Games\SC2000
• Download and install DosBox
• Run DosBox
• In the DosBox command prompt, type:

config -writeconf dosbox.conf

exit

You can edit the dosbox.conf file (C:\Program Files\DOSBox-*.**\dosbox.conf) to customise the experience. I set the following variables:

• windowresolution=800×600
• memsize=48

The game should now load, in a 640 x 480 window. I haven’t found out a way yet to increase the actual game window size to anything higher, even though I specify the windowresolution above.

• Run DosBox (Right click and select Run as Administrator)
• In the DosBox command prompt, type:

 mount c c:\games\sc2000

c:

install.exe

I use the Setup Utility to set my Music to Sound Blaster Pro 1 and the Sound Effects to SoundBlaster Pro. Changing the Video card makes no difference, and doesn’t increase the window size.

To run the game, just type sc2000.exe after exiting the Setup Utility, or from scratch:

• Run DosBox (Right click and select Run as Administrator)
• In the DosBox command prompt, type:

 mount c c:\games\sc2000

c:

sc2000.exe

For the game to autoload, add the following code under [autoexec] options:

mount c c:\games\sc2000
c:
sc2000.exe