Firstly: Why on earth is this the DOS version? So much lousier.

Anyway, I have no music at all. Running this on winXP.

I have sound effects but no midi. Any ideas on tweaking dosbox to give me that familiar sc2k music?


Edit: UGH.

Sorry, note to all other IT staff that tends to blame something complex for every problem:
My MIDI channel was muted.

Sorry!

Care explaining how the DOS version is so much lousier? I've never played the DOS version.

As to why this is the DOS version, it's probably because the Windows version is an 8-bit app and it won't run on modern OS's. Pre-DirectX Windows 95 games have the worst compatibility.

I have just downloaded demo of windows version (http://www.shacknews.com/file/800/sim-city-2000-demo-windows). No problems on Windows XP.

Keep in mind, Sim City 2000 is one of the few games where the DOS version was superior (only disadvantage was not having the network expansion later on due to it being a windows exclusive) The DOS version was more stable then the Windows version.

At release they gave the DOS version as backup as the windows version did not always work (didn't start up, or prone to crashing) Also, due to code-issues, Sim City 2000 Windows version has a very hard time running on the modern OS (Vista, Win7)

The simcity 2000 windows port was an 16-bit program in order to guarantee it running on 64-bit windows gog.com used the ms-dos version with dosbox.

Well, I actually have the same question of why this is the DOS version. The all-in-one SE release of Sim City 2000 on CD-ROM had a Win9x version of the Sim City application that was x86, however, the installer was 16-bit.

They could've used the Windows version. :(

Guys, GOG uses the DOS versions because of DOSBox - it's far more stable than Windows versions on the majority of computers, so it cuts down on the number of support complaints.