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Group51 · Jan 19, 2003, 05:53 PM

I just saw an advert on the TV today for SimCity 4000. How my heart lept, then I remebered that it was pee cee only.

Has anyone heard anything from anyone about a Mac version? What worries me is the PC system requirements, 1GHZ PIII, 32MB video, ouch.

harryhoode · Jan 19, 2003, 10:54 PM

The most I have seen so far is a maybe.. from an interview a few months ago. No word since then.

appledude83 · Jan 19, 2003, 11:42 PM

Yeah I haven't heard anything either sadly. And yeah actually for PC those requirement aren't really that high. And usually when games come to Mac they take an even better computer so geez. Looks like the tables are against us.

schwa · Jan 20, 2003, 01:02 PM

Well, if it does come to the Mac, here's hoping it's a better port than MacKiev's SimCity 3000. Got, what an utter debacle that was...

Big Mac · Jan 20, 2003, 03:09 PM

Everyone should remember that Maxis sold out long ago and doesn't do anything directly for the Mac. All of the Maxis titles we've had in recent years have come from the porting houses. I imagine we will hear something from them, probably from Aspyr, soon. Of course, we'll get the game around nine months after its PC debut, but that's the price we pay for our tiny marketshare. As we continue to lose marketshare, we will be increasingly irrelevant to developers. I hope Apple realizes it loses more by not being aggressive than it could possibly hope to gain.

fulmer · Jan 20, 2003, 03:25 PM

I've sold out and bought a PC. Sorry guys--I love my Macs and I use 'em all the time, but when I want to play some games, I'm using a PC.

AHDuke99 · Jan 23, 2003, 04:23 PM

The requirements are only 500 MHz PIII on the EA website

Group51 · Jan 23, 2003, 05:41 PM

Originally posted by AHDuke99:
The requirements are only 500 MHz PIII on the EA website

LOL. I presume you never used SC3000? Perhaps you should try it.

Wet Jimmy · Jan 23, 2003, 06:45 PM

Don't get your hopes up. I've been playing a lot of SC4000 on my PC, and as soon as your hit 5000+ people in your city it starts to chug. My specs are as follows -

P4 2.0Ghz
1 GB PC800 RDRAM
10,000rpm SCSI U2W SCSI Drives
and a GeForce 3 Ti500

- I'm only running at 1024 x 768 in 16Bit colour mode, and when I mean it chugs, I mean it slows to a CRAWL. There's so many more AI decsions happening in SC4000 it's just killing the game. Hopefully Maxis will release a patch that miraculously cleans things up... but as it is... it's kind of dissapointing.

So if the game DOES get ported to OSX, don't expect a smooth playable experience on any of the current hardware

It's damned criminal.

sideus · Jan 23, 2003, 09:36 PM

We have it running on a 3.0GHz P4 with a Geforce 4, SC4 runs like a dog. I'm somewhat disappointed with it.

juanvaldes · Jan 24, 2003, 12:36 AM

Originally posted by sideus:
We have it running on a 3.0GHz P4 with a Geforce 4, SC4 runs like a dog. I'm somewhat disappointed with it.

I have seen/talked to over 8 different people ALL with HIGH end systems and they all say +~10K it starts to crawl.

CheesePuff · Jan 24, 2003, 05:13 AM

The ESRB rating web site for games has SimCity 4000 for the Mac, published by Aspyr Media under there.

Nebrie · Jan 24, 2003, 02:10 PM

Originally posted by AHDuke99:
The requirements are only 500 MHz PIII on the EA website

If you plan to run a small agricultural society, yes.