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SimTower
SimTower cover
Developers
OpenBook
Publishers
Maxis
Release dates
Windows 3.x November 1994
Mac OS (Classic) November 1994
Taxonomy
Series Sim
SimTower on HowLongToBeat
SimTower guide on StrategyWiki
SimTower on MobyGames
SimTower 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 hard drive.
Windows 3.x
Mac OS
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1 #2 will updates retail versions to the latest version.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Game window can be stretched to any arbitrary resolution. Making the window too large on high-resolution displays can crash the game or cause other runtime errors.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Elevators, Background and Event sounds can be toggled independently.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
WinG
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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

Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 25 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 3.0 compatible
Other Requires a 4x or faster CD drive


References

  1. WinG - Wikipedia - last accessed on 2020-03-20