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jckalen · Jun 22, 2002, 10:03 AM

Does EA ever plan on carbonizing SC3K? I can't run it reliably on my G3 imac with both systems running - have to restart under 9 - and it's about the only reason I'm not "classic-free" yet.

Has Mac been snubbed yet again by EA so they can concentrate on not releasing SC4K for mac?

Seems odd since they updated The Sims

Jun 22, 2002, 12:33 PM

They didn't. Aspyr licensed The Sims from EA to get it to the Mac. They updated the Sims to work in OS X, but SC3000 was ported by EA, back in the time when they cared about the mac. They won't update it.

Steve

Scotttheking · Jun 22, 2002, 01:09 PM

Whatever happened to the days when maxis was a mac game company?

7Macfreak · Jun 22, 2002, 01:44 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Scotttheking:
Whatever happened to the days when maxis was a mac game company?<hr /></blockquote>yea! i remember that... reminds me of my first mac, and uh.. simcity 2000

SirCastor · Jun 22, 2002, 05:48 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Scotttheking:
Whatever happened to the days when maxis was a mac game company?<hr /></blockquote>The Same thing that happened to the days when Bungie was a mac game company
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Parvulesco · Jun 22, 2002, 06:09 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Scotttheking:
Whatever happened to the days when maxis was a mac game company?<hr /></blockquote>Uhh, when was that? SimCity was originally released on the Commodore 64.

juanvaldes · Jun 22, 2002, 08:39 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Parvulesco:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Scotttheking:
Whatever happened to the days when maxis was a mac game company?<hr /></blockquote>Uhh, when was that? SimCity was originally released on the Commodore 64.<hr /></blockquote>that's a new one on me. But I do remember playing SimCity on our mac Plus. Black and white baby!@!

And SC3K is not coming, SC4K will be out in a year or so anyway...

Parvulesco · Jun 23, 2002, 08:09 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by juanvaldes:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Parvulesco:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Scotttheking:
Whatever happened to the days when maxis was a mac game company?<hr /></blockquote>Uhh, when was that? SimCity was originally released on the Commodore 64.<hr /></blockquote>that's a new one on me. But I do remember playing SimCity on our mac Plus. Black and white baby!@!

And SC3K is not coming, SC4K will be out in a year or so anyway...<hr /></blockquote>You can read about it <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/features/maxis/" target="_blank">here.</a> The C64 version came out in 1987 (see the second page of the linked article for the reference to the 1987 version).

SimCity was cross-platform basically from its founding. The 1989 version of SimCity (revised C64 version) was released for Mac, PC, and even Amiga.

juanvaldes · Jun 23, 2002, 08:41 PM

interesting. I have read many "history's" of Maxis over the years (not ot mention living though it all) and I remember how SimCity started off as a as a bombing game but never once has anyone ever brought up SimCity C64.

ESavage · Jun 25, 2002, 03:42 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by jckalen:
Does EA ever plan on carbonizing SC3K? I can't run it reliably on my G3 imac with both systems running - have to restart under 9 - and it's about the only reason I'm not "classic-free" yet.

Has Mac been snubbed yet again by EA so they can concentrate on not releasing SC4K for mac?

Seems odd since they updated The Sims<hr /></blockquote>Well to tell you the truth a German Macintosh gameing website, has reported that SimCity 4 was on the way, that was couple of mounts ago and I have not seen anything else on it.
The sad part about SC3K was that EA never gave the companty that was doing the job the time it needed to finsh it. it was pulled, cleaned up and put out. I have given up on anything good comming from EA, heck their website is even unfriendly to Macintosh, ever tried to download the add-ons, it been a year and a half they still don't download right.
let's hope that the people at westlake interactive do the port of SimCity 4000 (again if their is one) and EA keeps thier nose out of it.
EJ

Jun 25, 2002, 07:47 PM

From what I have seen here <a href="http://simcity.ea.com/simcity4/index.html" target="_blank">http://simcity.ea.com/simcity4/index.html</a>

I don't think anyone will mind if we don't get 3000

I mean night and day! volcanoes! and fog!

calamar1 · Jun 26, 2002, 12:48 PM

IIRC, SimCity 3000 was ported by a Russian porting company, and it was one of the more disappointing ports I'd ever plunked down $50 for. It ran slowly on what was high-end hardware at the time, and crashed quite a bit, in addition to gobbling oodles of RAM. i actually have an old Centris that i use to play SimCity 2000, which is a lot more fun, i think...

But i am undeniably excited about SimCity 4!