Difference between revisions of "SimPark"

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SimCity (series)
SimEarth	1990
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SimFarm	1993
SimHealth	1994
SimTower	1994
SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest	1995
SimTown	1995
SimPark	1996
SimGolf	1996
SimTunes	1996
SimSafari	1998
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Key points

A teacher's guide is included

Installer is 16-bit only, but a workaround is available. See Running the game on 64-bit Windows

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

System	Location
Windows	%WINDIR%\SimPark.ini^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\SimPark.ini^{[Note 1]}
Mac OS (Classic)

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\*.prk
Mac OS (Classic)

This is the default path used by the game. The save file location can be determined by the user.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Uses desktop resolution. Menus are 640x480 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	2	Hot seat Name That Song mini-game.
LAN play
Online play

Although the game installer is 16-bit, the actual game is 32-bit. The only way to play it is to use an alternate installer:

Setting up the game with an alternate installer^{[citation needed]}

Somewhere on the computer (ex. the Desktop), create a new folder called "SETUP".
Copy the contents of the SimPark CD and paste them into the folder that was created before.
When everything has finished copying, go to <Setup Folder>\SETUP and delete the SETUP.EXE file.
Download the generic 32-bit installer and add it to the folder.
Run the installer and follow the on-screen instructions.
Once the installer has finished, go to the installation folder and run the SIMPARK.EXE file to play the game.

While the main game will work, the tutorial is 16-bit and will not run

Run the game in 640x480 resolution^{[citation needed]}

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)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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).

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-{{Infobox game/row/date|Windows|October 31, 1996}}
+{{Infobox game/row/date|Windows 3.x|October 1996}}
-{{Infobox game/row/date|Mac OS|October 31, 1996}}
+{{Infobox game/row/date|Windows|October 1996}}
+{{Infobox game/row/date|Mac OS|October 1996}}
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 ==Availability==
 {{Availability|
-{{Availability/row| Retail | | DRM-free | Entire game can be copied to the hard drive. | | Windows, Mac OS }}
+{{Availability/row| Retail | | DRM-free | Entire game can be copied to the hard drive. | | Windows 3.x, Windows, Mac OS }}
 }}