It's so bad that whenever this happens there is no other option than to force-quit the VM, because I can't even get the mouse control back to my host unless I give it the three-finger salute.įor reference, I'm using a 2013 MacBookPro. From playing with settings, the best I got it was that *if* I could regain mouse control long enough to click the game speed and remove it from fast play, the mouse would be a little buggy but mostly under my control (at least enough to build a crappy little tower, but as soon as I put it in speed mode again mouse control was completely lost). I DID find, however, that playing around with the video memory settings made it varying degrees of broken, so maybe it's a video problem. The mouse literally moves around the screen like it is possessed. It's much worse if the VT-x/AMD-V is on, but even with it off (and I played with a lot of settings) I can't regain mouse control. What the problem is, is that the mouse goes crazy every time I'm in the game. Thanks so much to michaelandrews for the suggestion to use Virtualbox with Win98se to play SimTower!! I love this game and missed it horribly, and even though it took me literally days of hours upon hours of work to get Windows 98 running in Virtualbox (I am not at all VM savvy), when I finally got SimTower to open it was like winning the lottery. I made an account just to post this, and I'm very ADD so you can smell the desperation. (and solution for getting files into your VM) Hope someone finds this useful! This thread is the #1 hit on google for 'OSX simtower' so I think it was worth reviving the thread and posting a solution, even if it is a few years later. One other note is that you have to make sure you turn OFF the VT-x/AMD-V on VirtualBox as well. I feel as though my life is now complete. Ironically, in all my years of using Windows that **** thing never worked, but this time it miraculously did exactly what it was supposed to. I made this switch after Windows was installed and had to use the 'Find New Hardware' Wizard. Audio wasn't quite so bad, you just have to make sure VirtualBox is running the SoundBlaster-16/AWE-32 emulation instead of ICH AC97 (which is the default). I had to install this video driver here: VBEMP x86 Project - Universal VESA/VBE Video Display Driver Otherwise, it only supports 640x480 and 16 colors. Video was tough because Oracle doesn't support Windows98 for the most part. Make sure the system hard drive size is not over 2.00GB for the same reasons as above. Anything higher might make Windows flake out during installation. Make sure the base system memory size in VirtualBox is set to 32MB. Download from this site: Windows 98 Bootable CD Images | Boot Disks In addition to Windows 98 (either a CD or image, I happened to have a legitimate CD from 1999 with it's keycode) you need a boot disk image. If anyone else wants to try this, here are some pointers: As an added bonus, since Windows 98 was a GUI that ran on top of MS-DOS you actually do have the option to reboot the system in DOS mode for running any DOS games you might have. This configuration should also work for other Win98 (or earlier) games that either can't be run in XP/Vista/7.

Took a little doin', but I got audio as well as video running (as you can see). Here is the link of commands that do work in DOSbox: Even videos of people playing it 'in DOS' show that it's running in Windows.Īlso, EXPAND doesn't work in DOSbox because DOSbox emulates MS-DOS. It came out in 1995 so of course it was a big deal to have it play on Windows 95. I don't understand why people say SimTower was a DOS game. Or Macintosh System 7 or higher with a 68030 or above Or Windows 3.1, Windows 95 or higher with a 386 or above SimCity 2000 Special Edition Windows 95 CD bundle with SimTower, $60 Here are the system requirements for every OS it was released on:Īvailable for Windows 3.1/Windows 95/Macintosh, $15 I'd be surprised if any of the installers online pointed to the 3.1 installer though, because that was floppies only if I remember correctly. Unfortunately you need to be emulating Windows 3.1, 95, or 98 to get this to run. No amount of 'EXPAND' or any other decompression command will install the game for you. Yes, *.?_ files are compressed, but they're compressed in such a way that the windows SETUP.EXE installer can read them. Even when I had it and it was on 3.5' floppies it was still a Windows game. In fact, SimTower never came out for DOS, so you won't be able to find a DOS installer. The file linked to on Abandonia (and anywhere else I've found on the web) is a Windows installer. Click to expand.I just created an account to post this in case anyone else reads this:

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