SimAnt


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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 release of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected releases).

SimAnt is a singleplayer side view, top-down view and isometric life sim and educational game in the Sim series.

The game is a side view when playing inside an ant nest, a top-down view when playing on the surface of the ground (or carpet or countertop), and an isometric view when looking at a wider perspective of the backyard and house interior.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Entire game can be copied to the hard drive.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\simant.cfg
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\*.ant
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

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Uses desktop resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		By default.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

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
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

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.
Royalty free audio
General MIDI audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes

Executable	PPC	16-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	6.2
Processor (CPU)	Intel 286 12 MHz	Intel 486DX2
System memory (RAM)	640 KB	2 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	2.5 MB
Video card (GPU)	EGA, Hercules, MCGA, Tandy/PCjr, VGA

Windows 3.x
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	3.0	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel 286 12 MHz	Intel 486DX2
System memory (RAM)	2 MB	4 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	2.5 MB
Video card (GPU)	VGA, SVGA, XGA

Mac OS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	6.0.2	9.2.2
Processor (CPU)	Motorola 68030
System memory (RAM)	4 MB	8 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	4 MB
Video card (GPU)	256 colours

Notes

↑ 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

[gamedir-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).

[Note 1]

Developers

	Maxis
Release dates
DOS	1991
Windows 3.x	1991
Mac OS (Classic)	1991
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Side view, Top-down view, Isometric
Controls	Point and select, Menu-based
Genres	Life sim, Educational
Art styles	Pixel art
Themes	Contemporary
Series	Sim