You failed to mention what you have tried, what modern OS, etc.

Ok I am trying it in VirtualBox with Windows XP sp3 VM, it does work, color issues and crashes as soon as i start the game

I tried it natively on my Win7 x64 and it seems to run OK, but didn't play much beyond the start.

Well I spent 2 bucks on it, just will have to run it in a windows 95 machine or wait for gog.com or ea to re-release it I voted for it

VirtualBox doesn;t support 3D, unfortunately. I have a Windows 98SE machine that'll play it with the VooDoo2 card in it as well.

bjwil1991 wrote:

VirtualBox doesn;t support 3D, unfortunately. I have a Windows 98SE machine that'll play it with the VooDoo2 card in it as well.

VirtualBox supports guest OpenGL hardware acceleration done by the host. You need to install "Guest Additions".

Ah. Haven't used VirtualBox in years. Another thing to attempt to use is the compatibility mode and see if that works. Also, install the Guest Additions if it's not already installed, and check the box in the video settings for the 3D Acceleration.

spiroyster wrote:

VirtualBox supports guest OpenGL hardware acceleration done by the host. You need to install "Guest Additions".

VirtualBox guest addition does not support anything older than Windows XP, so no 3D acceleration for anything older than Windows XP.
If you have a decent machine, preferably desktop CPU over 3GHz, then you can try the game with more game-friendly VMs, such as DOSBox & PCEm with Win98. The game supports 3Dfx acceleration and it would be more fun to play with 3D acceleration.

You can also try QEMU with Win98 but that is a more challenging path.

well you can run windows 9x, 3.1 in dosbox

Remember that 9x is not officially supported in DOSBox.

collector wrote:

Remember that 9x is not officially supported in DOSBox.

yea and abandonware is not officially supported software, the ends justify the means, ok i bought win 9x legitimately, and the games legitimately, and get them to work then its all good

Nobody ever mentioned abandonware. The comment about 9x was nothing more than to say that DOSBox is not the best solution for 9x. The DOSBox devs say that it is not supported because of all of the issues and will not give support for it. Don't be so defensive. No one is accusing you of anything.

Even worse, it was bumped to suggest Win9X in DOSBox AND suggesting the broken 3dfx demo patch as a solution which is not an option for any gameplay purposes (yes there's gameplay in simcopter). Textbook blind advice

leileilol wrote:

Even worse, it was bumped to suggest Win9X in DOSBox AND suggesting the broken 3dfx demo patch as a solution which is not an option for any gameplay purposes (yes there's gameplay in simcopter). Textbook blind advice

Oh yeah, you're right. SimCopter 3Dfx is just for demo and one can't really play the game in 3Dfx acceleration. What a shame...
Then any VM that can run Win98 should do the job. I had played StarCraft on QEMU Win98, so I guess that may work, too.