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Ubuntu + DosBox + SimCity2000

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First post, by mrkris

Posted on 2006-11-08, 22:34

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I was trying to run SimCity2000 under DosBox on Ubuntu Edgy and it failed to work. The problem is the music would play fine but the display would blind ascii characters and what not. Am I missing something? I got no errors in the console when I ran DosBox. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've been dieing to play SC2000 for years 😁

Reply 1 of 4, by wd

Posted on 2006-11-08, 22:38

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What dosbox version are you using, and do other games work?

Reply 2 of 4, by mrkris

Posted on 2006-11-08, 23:27

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Believe it or not i just fumbled with the videocard selection and it worked, only problem is it's SO slow, around 5sec delay.

Reply 3 of 4, by wd

Posted on 2006-11-08, 23:48

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Hm the original version of sc2000 should detect the video adapter
correctly during installation.
Use dosbox 0.65 and set cycles=auto in dosbox.conf, if you're on an x86
pc also try core=dynamic.

Reply 4 of 4, by mrkris

Posted on 2006-11-09, 00:17

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That made it faster, thanks 😀

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