- Publisher Electronic Arts said this week that SimCity is coming to Mac OS X on June 11. Players who have already purchased the Windows version of the game will be given free access to the Mac.
- SimCity For Mac OS X Now Available To Download By Ben Reid August 29th, 2013 The first beta of SimCity first rolled out at the beginning of the year, and a short while ago, it was confirmed by EA that SimCity for Mac would be ready for prime time at the end of August.
- Remember you can only download and install SimCity using Origin and that SimCity for Mac requires at least OS X 10.7.5+ to work – the full operating requirements are displayed below. Note that it does not work with the beta version of OS X 10.9 Mavericks yet. Quick Navigation hide Install Button Does Nothing / SimCity Won’t Install.
- Aspyr released a 64-bit version of SimCity a couple of weeks ago on the Mac App Store, happy days! Just open the App Store and search for SimCity. Alternatively, here’s the direct link.
SimCity ' s sixth major release was announced on March 5, 2012, for Windows and Mac OS X by Maxis at the 'game changers' event. The game was released for Windows on March 5, 2013. A download-only Mac version was released in August 2013 available for digital download on Origin.
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Developer: Maxis This game has debugging material. |
The second game in the SimCity series. In addition to improving on everything that was in the original, it adds an incredible number of new features and swaps the top-down perspective of the original for an isometric view.
- 2Revision History
Debug Menus
Among other things, the Debug menu allowed testers to invoke the special disasters not listed in the Disasters menu.
A separate, enormous menu was devoted to testing each type of newspaper article.
There's no apparent way to activate these; the relevant codes from the PC version do nothing on the Mac.
These menus were removed altogether in version 1.2.
Revision History
Title Screen
Version 1.0.
Version 1.1 added a trademark symbol and copyright date. It also lengthened the picture by 20 pixels, revealing more of the buildings.
Version 1.2 traded ™ for ®, 1993 for 1995, and a clump of pixels on the first zero for a slightly darker clump of pixels.
Changes in Version 1.1
Simcity 4 Deluxe Edition Mac
The 1.1 patch comes with a list of its improvements, which is reproduced below:
- The budget should work properly now, transit figures should be correct (and stay that way).
- The Bulldoze Tool should always default to Bulldoze instead of whatever tool was last used. This should prevent accidental mass destruction caused by forgetting that the last bulldoze tool being used was Raise/Lower/Level Terrain.
- Airports should build correctly now (the ratio of towers to runways should be better).
- Several problems that show up with more than 7 stadiums/teams should be gone.
- Figures in the Analysis window (from the City Hall query window) should stay correct.
- Sometimes, destroying bridges would leave an un-usable shoreline tile. This should be fixed.
- Querying on certain tiles of the Forest Arcology in certain situations would report bare land, this should not happen.
- Arcologies that do not have micro-simulators attached should now affect population (populations far greater than 9.1 million should be attainable).
- There is a new button when using the query tool on a library. [That would be the 'Ruminate' button, which displays this essay by Neil Gaiman.]
- Placing highway and re-enforced bridges now charges the user correctly.
- Schools should work properly at population levels above 60,000.
- The date should now properly display above 9,999 years.
- The power graph should be more accurate.
- This Read Me file has been updated.
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There's also a new quasi-ending: if the year is at least 2051, and your city has at least 301 launch arcologies, they'll take off into space and refund the money used to construct them, accompanied by a pop-up announcing that 'the exodus has begun'.
Changes in Version 1.2
Simcity 3000 Mac
The Read Me only cites three new features: PowerPC native code, support for the Urban Renewal Kit, and African Swallow Mode (which fast-forwards the game as fast as your computer can possibly go). Subtler changes included some modifications to the credits:
Versions 1.0 and 1.1 | Version 1.2 | Notes |
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The title was bumped up to registered trademark status throughout v1.2. | ||
Lewis' resume states that he 'fixed over 100 bugs, including over 20 crash bugs'. His work on this revision was honored with an easter egg: type uspa87419 (his US Parachute Association membership number) to watch a parachutist float over your city. This egg also appears in SimTown, on which Lewis was lead programmer. | ||
A Manhattan nuclear meltdown scenario was included in the Great Disasters expansion pack. | ||
Despite the curly quotes earlier, these ones are straight. | ||
'Vice' should be 'VISE'. | ||
The very last entry gained a concluding period. |
The Sim series | |
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SimCity | |
Mac OS Classic | SimCity • SimCity 2000 • SimCity 3000 |
NES | SimCity |
SNES | SimCity |
DOS | SimCity 2000 |
Windows | SimCity 2000 • SimCity 3000 (Unlimited) • SimCity 4 • SimCity (2013) |
Nintendo 64 | SimCity 2000 |
PlayStation | SimCity 2000 |
Nintendo DS | SimCity DS |
Linux | SimCity 3000 Unlimited |
The Sims | |
Windows | The Sims • The Sims 2 • The Sims 3 • The Sims 4 The Sims: Life Stories |
GameCube | The Sims • The Sims: Bustin' Out • The Sims 2 (Prototypes) • The Sims 2: Pets |
PlayStation 2 | The Sims • The Sims: Bustin' Out • The Sims 2 (Prototypes) • The Sims 2: Pets • The Sims 2: Castaway |
Xbox | The Sims • The Sims: Bustin' Out • The Sims 2 (Prototypes) |
Wii | The Sims 2: Pets • The Sims 2: Castaway • The Sims 3 |
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 | The Sims 3 |
Game Boy Advance | The Sims 2 • The Sims 2: Pets |
PlayStation Portable | The Sims 2 • The Sims 2: Pets • The Sims 2: Castaway |
Nintendo DS | The Sims 2 • The Sims 2: Castaway • The Sims 3 |
iOS | The Sims FreePlay |
Android | The Sims FreePlay |
MySims | |
Nintendo DS | MySims • MySims Kingdom • MySims Agents |
Windows | MySims |
Wii | MySims Kingdom • MySims Racing • MySims Agents • MySims SkyHeroes |
DSiWare | MySims Camera |
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 | MySims SkyHeroes |
Others | |
Windows | Sim Theme Park • SimCoaster |
Mac OS Classic | SimAnt • Sim Theme Park |
PlayStation | Sim Theme Park |
SNES | SimEarth: The Living Planet • SimAnt |
GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox | The Urbz: Sims in the City |