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Revision as of 10:50, 15 October 2021

SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony
SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony cover
Developers
Maxis
Release dates
DOS 1991
Windows 3.x 1991
Mac OS (Classic) 1991
Taxonomy
Series Sim
SimAnt guide on StrategyWiki
SimAnt on MobyGames
SimAnt on Wikipedia
SimCity (series)
SimEarth 1990
SimAnt 1991
SimLife 1992
SimFarm 1993
SimHealth 1994
SimTower 1994
SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest 1995
SimTown 1995
SimPark 1996
SimGolf 1996
SimTunes 1996
SimSafari 1998
The Sims (series)
Sid Meier's SimGolf 2002

Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Entire game can be copied to the hard drive.
DOS
Windows 3.x
Mac OS

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\*.ant[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
This is the default path used by the game. The save file location can be determined by the user.

Video

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 286 12 MHz
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.5 MB
Video card (GPU) EGA, Hercules, MCGA, Tandy/PCjr, VGA
Windows 3.x
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 286 12 MHz
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.5 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA, SVGA, XGA
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 6.0.2
Processor (CPU) Motorola 68030
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 colours


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References