The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook

Re:The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook by douche on Friday September 04, 2015 @12:55AM (#10168874)

SimTower sort of did this, within the context of a single skyscraper. I'm not sure if it is on GOG or anywhere else legitimate these days - odds are it might not be a simple matter to run on modern Windows, unless you want to spin up an XP VM.

I spent way too many hours playing SimTower as a kid. It was pretty fun, especially if you took advantage of the infinite money cheat involving building a specific type of room in one certain place on the bottom of the level... Not bad for a game that was built around an elevator simulator http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130563/the_designers_n...

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Re:The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook by jcranmer on Friday September 04, 2015 @02:33AM (#10169065)

I've very much enjoyed playing SimTower, and I still have a legitimate exe of it sitting around. But the game is a Win16 game, and my latest experience running it in WINE was crap (it became very easy to completely lock up X). Possibly it might make more sense running in Windows 3.1 in dosbox.

Incidentally, this is a motivation for why I'm playing a bit with statically recompiling x86-16 code to run on x86-32.

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Re:The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook by mosheroperandi on Friday September 04, 2015 @03:41AM (#10169201)

It's actually available on iPad under it's Japanese release name: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yoot-tower/id379197311?mt=8

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Re:The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook by amyjess on Friday September 04, 2015 @09:48AM (#10170358)

Yoot Tower was actually the sequel to SimTower, not the Japanese name for it.

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