#SIMTOWER

[lycrabustier]

#simtower #sim tower #maxis #retro gaming #nostalgia #pc gaming #mac gaming

[traumahound]

#the tower #simtower #nintendo ds #nintendo 3ds

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most of the elevators in the building i work in are configured with call buttons for individual floors at the stop with the elevators not having floor buttons inside and displaying what floors it will stop at, and i guess it's supposed to route elevators more efficiently but it feels like the opposite, i wish i could see whatever its algorithm is doing to route which elevator to which floor

#can you tell i played lots of simtower as a kid?

[lasclprofits]

Install simtower dosbox

#Install simtower dosbox install#

#Install simtower dosbox 64 Bit#

Games written for Windows 3.1 originally almost certainly wont work in W7 32 bit without DOSBOX anyway, regardless of 16 bit issues.

#Install simtower dosbox 64 Bit#

I have problems with very few Windows games in Vista. Yeah, and almost without fail theyll either have run in DOS or have a DOS version, so theyll run just fine on 64 bit W7 with DOSBOX. What you also can try: Plug in an older 'classic' 3button mouse That may be an USB one. VPC or Dosbox +W3.x will solve all your problems, as the act as a go between for that old game on newer systems.

#Install simtower dosbox install#

But it would be great to be able to play it with sound on this computer. Install dosbox 0.72 and win3.x in it or: VPC + W3.x, W95 or W98. the sound and music are great, and are a big part of the game really! They do work fine on my older computers, though, so it's not that bad. last time I tried to run it in Vista, the game worked, but no matter what I did, I couldn't get the sound and music working. It is a pretty good game, despite my complaints. The graphics are nice though, with lots of nice animations, and there's some depth in setting prices and positioning everything well for people to actually move into the storefronts and pay your rents, and being able to see all the people going around is fun. Game seems to run OK, with full sound effects and music. Hopefully the newer ones like Yoot Tower improved on limitations like those? I only have the original. why can't I just put stairways and escalators everywhere I want them? Instead I keep having to delete them and can only have a bare minimum of them, despite how big a boost to travel they are. The limitations, particularly the limited numbers of elevators, stairways, and escalators, got very frustrating. In SimCity games I've done terribly a lot, frequently running out of money and losing (particularly from SC2k on), but in SimTower losing isn't nearly as easy. Hi Guys, I have this very old game known as SimTower from the Maxis company and it used to run on my Windows 7 but now that I have gotten a new computer with the Win 8 OS, it wont run anymore. it is a bit too easy to get a 100-floor, 5-star tower with chapel on top, though. Download otvdm-for-old-windows-v0.8.1.zip (ReactOS, and Windows versions before Vista and Server 2008) closed issues closed Program Musinum proclaims 'Out of memory' when trying to open it. it's a fairly simple game, much easier to win than a SimCity game and with less depth, but it is pretty good. SimTower is a great game, got it back when it was new.

#Install simtower dosbox

[foone]

I haven't been doing much mobile gaming (outside of a few adless games) but I recently picked up a game and it's showing me ads for other games and it's really weird.

They all seem to be "what if a game from the late 90s... But with zombies and f2p gems!"

Do you remember SimTower? We've got dozens of SimTowers! Except there's zombies and you can buy gems for 1.99$

What about Age of Empires? Well, according to mobile game ads, it was the best RTS of all time, it just lacked zombies... And gems!

[l-1-z-a]

The Story of SimCity - How Will Wright Created a Phenomenon | Kim Justice

From video description:

A documentary about how the genius Will Wright made SimCity, one of the most important computer games ever made. Going through his inspiration, his struggles, the formation of Maxis, the mainstream success, plus several versions of the game and some of its successors.

Timecodes:

0:00 Intro

2:28 Will Wright's Beginning: Raid on Bungeling Bay

9:46 SimCity's Inspiration: Urban Dynamics, Stainislaw Lem and the Game of Life

17:05 It's Good, but is it a Game?: Wright Struggles With Studios

23:38 Maxis Software Forms and SimCity Arrives

29:20 SimCity In-Depth: How The Game Plays

37:09 SimCity Ports: Windows, Amiga, Macintosh, SNES, C64, Acorn etc.

47:28 SimCity as a Mainstream and Political Phenomenon, and it's Infuence

53:30 The Follow-Ups: SimEarth, SimAnt, SimTower, SimHealth, SimRefinery etc.

1:01:24 Outro: Pulling The Sims Out of the Fire

FURTHER READING:

The Story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery:

Recovering Nintendo's Lost SimCity for the NES:

The Real Mayors of SimCity:

Will Wright's City In A Box:

The Ideology Hiding in SimCity's Black Box:

The Replay Interviews: Will Wright:

#Will Wright #simcity #sim city #game design #game development #the sims #sims #game documentary #retrogaming #youtube

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My Fav Video Games for Middle Space

⛤ Sims 3

⛧ Kingdom Hearts 2

⛤ Giants: Citizen Kabuto

⛧ Stardew Valley

⛤ Minecraft

⛧ Simtower

⛤ Half-Life

⛧ Jak 3

⛤ Super Mario World

⛧ Jade Cocoon

⛤ The Legend of Dragoon

⛤ Rollercoaster Tycoon

⛧ Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2

#sfw agere #age regression #agere #sfw age regression #sfw middle regression #sfw middle space #middle regression #middle space

[retrotechdreams]

SimTower (1994)

[littlenyao]

Ever since I was a kid, I've been a fan of SimCity (and of course now enjoying Cities: Skylines II). At the time though, I hadn't really been aware of the extent of the franchise (other than SimAnt which I played once and SimTower which I watched played at my friend's house).

But recently I've looked into the depth of all of the Sim games. There were such wild concepts as SimEarth, SimHealth, SimGolf, SimIsle, etc... But I feel like they've missed one important one:

SimLibrary

Having worked at a library in the same era as these games were produced, I feel it's a horrible oversight to ignore the crazy and complicated task of actually running a public library. And imagine if it did exist in that era. Imagine what scenarios you would encounter. Things like

Managing that army of shelvers and shelf readers.

Adventures down to... The Archive.

"I'm sorry, sir, I will not go and get that movie for you since it is being held for another person. No. No really."

🎵 Closing time! 🎵

"Send it back. Lord of the Rings is not Science Fiction."

What happened in Tier 5 stays in Tier 5.

Meeting room Tetris!

"No, the CD isn't broken. Your car player just can't handle mp3s."

The library sale with 60 extra copies of that one book that was super popular a year ago.

🎵 Wash wash wash! Wash the scratchy CD! Rinse rinse rinse! And pray that it still plays! 🎵

Invent the pop-up blocker so your employees don't have to hard reboot the computer every time someone visits a porn site.

"No, The Onion is not the same as The New York Times."

Endless visits to the city council to request that badly needed expansion wing.

#public libraries #sim games #every single one of these is from personal experience

[iloveabunchofgames]

#JakeReviewsItch

Airships: Conquer the Skies

by Zarkonnen

Price (US): $24.99

Included In: Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality

Genre: Strategy, Simulation

Pitch: Build airships. Build cities. Conquer the world.

My expectations: Despite its slightly underwhelming art style, my first impression is very positive. It looks almost like my beloved SimTower, except the tower is a floating war machine bent on world domination. I can tell you right now that if I can name the pilot, she's going to be Wendy O. Koopa. My big worry is not with the game, but with me. I am currently being weaned off of one prescription and replacing it with another. My brain is mush. I'm look at screenshots covered in tiny text and numerous numbers. I don't know if I can handle anything too complicated today.

Review:

My fear that Airships: Conquer the Skies would be too complicated for my feeble brain was unfounded. Thanks to smart layout and clear indications of what issues require attention, it only took a few minutes for me to find my bearings. That’s when the trouble began.

The trouble: I’m committed to reviewing a new game every day. I don’t have space in my life for a new addiction.

The tutorial focuses on combat. Learn to fly a ship. Learn to fly a ship within range of an enemy, and let the crew fire away until your target drops. Learn to modify a ship. Build a ship from scratch—engines, fuel, crew quarters, safety features, reinforced hulls, and every weapon in your budget—and see how it does. Got all that? Now let’s talk tanks.

An hour-long tutorial is usually enough to drive me away from any game, but most of that time is spent playing, and it’s a blast. I started the main game, expecting more of the same, with a little connective tissue between battles. I was wrong.

Combat and ship-building are only slivers of this grand strategy game. Research! Diplomacy! Town development! And it’s all shockingly intuitive.

+ As dense as it is massive, and yet it's the most intuitive, approachable grand strategy game I've ever played. + Researching new parts and building for a purpose within a budget is RollerCoaster Tycoon-level addictive. + Randomly generated scenarios (that can be tailored with a million options), 100-ish different starting perks (I lost count), scenario editors, importing and exporting designs, mod support, and multiplayer that's as cooperative or competitive as you want it to be—this game is infinite. + Memorable music. The right level of bombast for a friendly game of world domination.

– Even with the UI bumped up to the largest setting, the text is a little too small, especially with the difficult typeface. Still, props for including UI scaling and a dyslexia-friendly font. – The default keyboard shortcuts are... They're all over the place. You can remap them, but there are so many. WASD moves the view, which makes sense. I wish they'd stuck the most useful commands on nearby buttons, but instead, it was up to me to figure out that swapping M and E makes life easier. – Hotkeys aren't necessary. The whole game can be played with mouse (although hotkey shortcuts are listed beside everything that can be clicked, making text even harder to read). Action scenes can be paused, so quick action isn't required, but the in-game mouse speed is slower than my Windows setting. Maybe I could dig into a config file and change it, but y'know, I'm used to my mouse moving the way I like. Why change it? – Even playing at double speed, idly waiting for money to accumulate and vehicles to be built can drag on for a bit too long.

🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍

Bottom Line: If Airships: Conquer the Skis has been an overlooked part of your Itch library since you got the Bundle for Racial Equality and Justice in mid-2020, download it right now, even this isn't your genre. I think you'll be surprised. I know I was. I can't give that kind of blanket recommendation at full price, but for the right person, we're talking about hundreds of hours of quality entertainment for $25.

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#JakeReviewsItch #Computer Games #Video Games #Itch.io #Review #Indie Games #Zarkonnen #Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality #Strategy Games #grand strategy #War #Diplomacy #Airships #Steampunk #Tanks #City Builder #Civilization #Civilisation #Airships: Conquer the Skies

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He finally rolled much of that property into Farmland Partners, which went public in 2014. Farmland, in contrast, is barely correlated with the inventory market, in accordance with an analysis by Todd H. Kuethe, an agricultural economist at Purdue University. So proudly owning farm acreage may add diversification to a inventory portfolio, as the land worth might zig when the market zagged. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the common held funds price of an acre of U.S. cropland has risen about 75 percent during the last 15 years. But can traders in mutual funds or exchange-traded funds observe the Gates and Buffett examples? Yes, however until you purchase cornfields or cow pastures of your own, only not directly.

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For extra info, please see the Overview of the Main Street Lending Program article. No collateral for $25,000 or much less; common safety interest instead funds held of real estate for ‎larger loans. As of April 24, 2020, agricultural enterprises (e.g. farms), aquaculture enterprises, agricultural cooperatives, or nurseries, are eligible for EIDLs or advances.

#funds held

[cruisechaser-blassty]

well i got simtower working through exowin3x but it's like, weirdly slow. gonna have to uhh fuck around with that at some point

#faecat.txt #might just try manually installing windows 3.1 into dosbox and go from there idk idk

[xn--ko8h]

I wish there was a version of Another Brick in the Mall with like 3d environment so you can make actual real life malls spread over levels with elaborate elevator arrangements. Basically Another Brick in the Mall plus SimTower.

I guess when Dwarf Fortress finally gets the economy mode switched back on it'll be possible to make functioning mall cities in that hehe

[retrocgads]

USA 1996

#USA1996 #MAXIS #ELECTRONIC ARTS #STRATEGY #IBM #MACINTOSH #AMIGA #PC 98 #FM TOWNS #ARCHIMEDES #GAMEBOY #N64 #PS1 #SEGA SATURN #SNES #SIMISLE #SIMTOWER #SIMCITY 2000

[weirdsimsinhistory]

Background of SimTower (1994)

#pixel art #old pc games #simtower #sim tower #1990s #90s games #pixels #weird sims #landscape #pixelart

[oldwindowsicons]

SimTower

#icons #games #simtower #simulation