A question for y'all...

[gridlore]

Anybody have an old copy of SimEarth and/or SimCity 2000/3000 they don't want anymore? I've been jonesing for my Sim fix.

Comments

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

I think I may have 2K, I'll let you know when I get home tonight.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

I've got Mac versions of both. OS 7.5, no idea if they'll run on anything more recent.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Ah, should have specified, I'm a Windoze person.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

It's hard to get SimEarth to run on anything in 2005. It suffers from DOS-prior-to-3.3's limitation of not understanding large hard drives. Anything buyable today confuses its install program, and it refuses to place it on the hard drive. I gave up after trying to install it for a couple of days.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Well, piffle! I loved that game, and could beat the Mars terraforming scernatio in about 700 game years. (The secret? Binom generators early. They only produce desert, but as the planet warms and gets wetter, your biomass explodes.)

[ex-cerebrate131.livejournal.com]

If you can get a copy (and, for SimEarth alone, it's probably overkill, although there *is* a 45-day trial version), Virtual PC (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx) is your friend here. It runs most of my old DOS games without a hitch, although I do have to turn sound off in a few of them.