SimFarm
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Developers | |
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Leaping Lizard Software | |
Publishers | |
Maxis | |
Release dates | |
DOS | 1993 |
Mac OS (Classic) | 1994 |
Windows 3.x | 1996 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Top-down view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Building |
Series | Sim |
⤏ Go to series page | |
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).
SimFarm is a singleplayer top-down view building game in the Sim series.
The Windows version crashes if the main window inside the game is stretched over 1280 pixels wide[citation needed].
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | Entire game can be copied to the hard drive. |
Essential improvements
Patches
Patch 1.3 will updates retail versions to the latest version.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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DOS | |
Windows | |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
DOS | |
Windows | <path-to-game>\*.sfm[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. See Key points on top of the page. | ||
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 | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). |
Controller types |
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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 |
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 |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 6 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | EGA, VGA |
Windows 3.x | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 3.1 | 95, 98 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel 386SX | Intel Pentium |
System memory (RAM) | 4 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 6 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | VGA |
Mac OS | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7.0 | 9.2.2 |
Processor (CPU) | Motorola 68K series | |
System memory (RAM) | 4 MB | 8 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 5 MB |
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).