I'm new to dosbox and I can't figure out how to get Sim City 2000 to work right. I start the game up, then a welcome message followed by some settings (pic1). Changing the options doesn't seem to do anything, then I hit exit, it says "Enjoy Sim City 2000!" and then it just goes back to dosbox (pic2). Am I missing something?
There are two options. The first one is the easiest and the other one is a bit more complicated. You can buy SimCity 2000 Special Edition from gog.com and you don't have to mess around with anything if you don't own the game and you got a pirated copy. Currently is on sale for $2.39 and you got 16 hours left as of posting this. Here's a link for for the page: http://www.gog.com/gamecard/simcity_2000_special_edition
However if you own the real disk and don't want to spend anything follow me closely. By looking at the screenshot you posted I see you have the regular SimCity 2000 CD-ROM and not the Special Edition one so I'm not entirely sure if the disk has the same directory structure.
Basically all I did to install the game were the followings... I inserted the disk in my drive and I launched DOSBox with the default config file.
I created a test folder on my C:\ drive and that's where I will install the game. This is the folder I'm going to mount, but you can choose anything.
First thing what I did was setting the cycles to max to speed up the installation. You can do that by typing the following command
1cycles max
After that I will mount my folder I just created earlier by using this command and hitting the Enter key
1mount c c:\test
Next is to mount the drive letter where your game is inserted to. My optical drive is F:\ in Windows so I'm going mount that as D:\ in DOSBox. You will type your drive letter instead of mine. Probably it will be different for you, but I used this command:
1mount d f:\ -t cdrom
Ok, if all that is done you need to launch the installer. I don't know where it is on the non Special Edition disk but it should be INSTALL.EXE The Special Edition disk has three directories: one for the DOS version, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. So for me this is what I did:
1D:\
Then I changed the directory to DOS by typing this:
1cd dos
After that I ran INSTALL.EXE by typing in the following:
1install
If you did everything right you will see the blue graphical installer you got. Just choose CONTINUE, then enter your Full Name to get a customised version of the game with your information. Then click OK and confirm it with YES.
Next you need do choose CUSTOM INSTALL and then FULL INSTALL. The default installation location should be fine I guess, so click OK to accept and install to C:\SC2000. Now wait until the files are copied to the folder you mounted as your C:\ drive. It shouldn't take too long.
After everything was copied over from the disk you will be asked to set up your sound card for music and sound effects. I usually choose the Sound Blaster 16 option for both. To find the option you must click MORE... once, and then click on it. After verification you click on CONTINUE.
If you have done everything so far you will get a message telling you that the game has been successfully installed. Just click OK. All you need to do now is just launch the game by typing in this:
1sc2000
Here's a screen recording just in case you don't want to read all this, or you are stuck. I set the sound settings to be muted in the video, but you should choose the one I recommended or one which is compatible with DOSBox.
Watch the video here: http://www.screencast.com/t/kQ2oMj5F7
So yeah gog.com is the easiest. You just buy the game, download the setup file, install it and launch the game from the shortcut on the desktop. Hope this helps somewhat and you manage to install the game. If you have any questions feel free to ask and we try our best to answer.
If you mean that you downloaded it from somewhere other than GOG, then there is no way of knowing if you have a complete copy that will actually function properly – and trying to figure out what the problem is may be a complete waste of time.
