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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SimCity RipOff
Message-ID: <1989Dec16.203041.12083@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 16 Dec 89 20:30:41 GMT
References: <111900101@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <17475@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <14852@well.UUCP> <10057@zodiac.ADS.COM> <25043@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <25043@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>If the Mac II version really is not copy protected, I might buy it.
>I don't have a color system, however.  How is it in monochrome?

This is somewhat confused.  There is no "Mac II" version, per se,
though there is a version that's only really useful on a Mac II.

The standard monochrome Sim City is copy protected, will not run under
MultiFinder, runs on most Macs, including Mac IIs, but requires 1-bit
mode.  On a Mac II, it runs quite fast.

The color version of Sim City is not copy protected, and will run under
mf.  I've run it in 16-color mode, and it's slow but nice to look at.
It also runs in 4-color mode and in monochrome, but looks terrible,
since they are using colors instead of doing dot shading (bulldozed
area is black, and details are very poor).  It will not run at all
in 256-color mode (which is why I didn't buy it - I was lucky enough
to have a friend who bought it and let me see it).  As far as I know,
this version will work on all Macs, though I haven't tried it.
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