Sim City 2000 in Wine

[a person]

I cannont install Sim City 2000 in wine. I get

zach@blue:~/Downloads/SimCity 2000$ wine INSTALL.EXE 
wine: Cannot start DOS application "Z:\\home\\zach\\Downloads\\SimCity 2000\\INSTALL.EXE"
      because vm86 mode is not supported on this platform.

Any help/suggestions?

[MelDJ]

sims seems to be rated as garbage by winehq. so i recommend installing windows through virtualbox then installing sims if you have a windows disk

[ireneshusband]

You cannot run it in Wine because it is not a Windows application. It is an MS-DOS application (older versions of Windows ran on top of MS-DOS and some games continued to run in MS-DOS mode for performance or simplicity). Try running it in Dosemu instead ("sudo aptitude install dosemu").

[a person]

sims seems to be rated as garbage by winehq. so i recommend installing windows through virtualbox then installing sims if you have a windows disk

It was rated gold when I checked (I even double checked). I do not have a windows disc and I'd like to keep it that way . Thank you for your suggestion though.

[MelDJ]

oh.. i think i understood you wrong. i am sorry

[a person]

You cannot run it in Wine because it is not a Windows application. It is an MS-DOS application (older versions of Windows ran on top of MS-DOS and some games continued to run in MS-DOS mode for performance or simplicity). Try running it in Dosemu instead ("sudo aptitude install dosemu").

Good call! It worked perfectly in dosbox. I can't believe I didn't think that before.

[scarf]

on my cd there are three versions: one for dos, one for win 3.1, and one for win 95. while the dos version works fine with dosbox, the resolution isn't that great, and i had glitchy sound.

the win95 version installs and runs perfectly on wine 1.2.2-0ubuntu2~lucid1. i just ran `wine setup.exe`. there is an issue with it crashing when trying to load/save a city, and that is overcome by setting your windows version to NT 3.5 in the wine settings.