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SimCity™ 2000 Special Edition

The best of all DOS Versions BUT...

It's the SimCity 2000 Special Edition with all extras included, so this part is great. This version first shows the SimCity 2000 Game Launcher to select if the user wants to play the game, the Urban Renewal Kit, WillTV or DOS Settings. The game runs in 4:3. So far, so good. This is the DOS version running in DOSBox, so the graphics are not 640x480 like in the Windows 95 or Mac (68k & PPC) versions. This is the only real downside that it's very pixelated 320x240 graphics. GOG however is advertising the game with the higher resolution graphics. The screenshots you see on the product page are not the graphics you get in the DOS version. The screenshots look like from the Mac version. The Windows 95 version has different toolbars. I also checked the SimCity 2000 SE version directly from EA that is advertised with Windows 95 screenshots. Shockingly, even this version from EA is based on DOSBox. There is no advantage in graphic resolution. Worse than that, the screen is not 4:3 but stretched to widescreen. There is also no Game Launcher, so I don't know how to access the Urban Renewal Kit and other options. You are forced to use the EA app with a user account, so all your user and usage data goes to EA. Therefore, the GOG version is the much better deal. How to get the higher resolution graphics to work? Not the official ways unfortunately.

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