A night of Sim City 2000 - Wasn't meant to be!

[fitzsteve]

Dammit I spent damn near 2 hours last night trying to play Sim City 2000 on one of my 060 setups via ShapeShifter.

I wouldn't mind but I was playing for hours on the A4000/40 no problem at all but as the city grew in size I needed more speedz :roll:

So time to crack open one of the 060's!

Well the Desktop A1200 ran ShapeShifter great, perfect in fact. And Sim City ran perfect! Nice and quick but dammit! I couldn't play properly because for some reason it thought the help key was pressed all the time so anything I clicked on just brought up the help bubble

After an hour trying to figure out what was causing this I checked the 060/PPC which was roasting hot by this time and decided to give er a rest

So went downstairs, fired up the A1200T, loaded up ShapeShifter this time blazingly fast at 72mhz 060

Dammit, a few minutes into the game locked up And the game was working fine and everything, I actually remember ShapeShifter being a pain on this system, maybe 72mhz 060 is too fast for it lol?

Ok whats left to do now, yep - installed the PC version which ran on my WinXP setup like a dream, but by the time I started my City though it was gone midnight and time to get some sleep

Damn you gotta love Amiga's

 

[Templar]

Don't you have the Amiga version Steve? Why via emulator (or I understand wrong)?

SimCity 2000 is a great strategy game, I really liked it.

 

[fitzsteve]

Don't you have the Amiga version Steve? Why via emulator (or I understand wrong)?

SimCity 2000 is a great strategy game, I really liked it.

The Mac/PC version are much better than the Amiga, via ShapeShifter you can play at in screen like 800x600 via RTG and also I don't see a WHDLoad version, I guess it was HD installable?

I might make some ADF's and try it though

 

[Templar]

I think that even on an Amiga SimCity 2000 was great-looking, with 256 full colors. Yes, it is HD installable.

 

[fitzsteve]

I think that even on an Amiga SimCity 2000 was great-looking, with 256 full colors. Yes, it is HD installable.

Thanks, I shall try it to compare

Since ShapeShifter sucks on my A600 I'll be able to get my Sim City Fix that way

In fact I can install from the ADF's via my HxC floppy emulator lol

 

[Cammy]

Sorry Steve, Sim City 2000 on Amiga is AGA-only. The only way you'll play it on the A600 is when Oliver or someone makes a Shapeshifter video driver for the Indivision ECS direct-graphics chunky 256 colour mode.

If you install the AGA version, make sure you grab the patch from Aminet and apply it before you play the game - http://aminet.net/package/game/patch/SimCity2000pch

 

[fitzsteve]

Sorry Steve, Sim City 2000 on Amiga is AGA-only. The only way you'll play it on the A600 is when Oliver or someone makes a Shapeshifter video driver for the Indivision ECS direct-graphics chunky 256 colour mode.

If you install the AGA version, make sure you grab the patch from Aminet and apply it before you play the game - http://aminet.net/package/game/patch/SimCity2000pch

Thanks for that, I made the disks from ADF's last night so will be installing it on my A4000 later, cheers!

Steve.

 

[abraXXious]

Hey Steve, are you running Shapeshifter via native aga on any systems? The reason I ask is that try as I might, I cannot find a single "supposedly fast" aga Shapeshifter driver that is even in the ball park of being usable.

Whats your secret?

---------- Post added at 20:17 ---------- Previous post was at 20:16 ----------

On second thought, ever thought of putting together a ShapeShifter tutorial?

 

[fitzsteve]

Hey Steve, are you running Shapeshifter via native aga on any systems? The reason I ask is that try as I might, I cannot find a single "supposedly fast" aga Shapeshifter driver that is even in the ball park of being usable.

Whats your secret?

---------- Post added at 20:17 ---------- Previous post was at 20:16 ----------

On second thought, ever thought of putting together a ShapeShifter tutorial?

Cammy already done the tutorial at EAB, I'll see if I can find a link in a bit.

Not really used ShapeShifter on my non RTG systems to be honest, Cammy might be able to help though.

All the best.

Steve.

 

[Justin]

i read a post by Cammy saying that the patched AGA version runs at the same speed as the shapeshifter version