For maximum speed, close the Map Window, shrink the Main Window, look at the sky, and turn on “Fast Mode”. Now, turn up the simulation speed and save up $60M. Add three stairways to serve them: after the 9th, 20th and 31st offices. Put three floors with 40 offices each on top. The map is 375 “segments” wide, but a 360 segment tower is much easier to fill evenly, so build a 360 segment lobby. See my SimTower Reference for some tables I wish I’d had before playing SimTower again, cobbled together from a few different websites and corrected. I was inspired by a very short and simple SimTower walkthrough, though I ended up using a Retail Store / Fast Food mix for higher income with similar population. Here’s my first pass at “solving” SimTower. I’ve written up the steps that worked for me. I installed Windows 95 to run it, which took a few hours of attempts and ended up being a nostalgic journey itself.
Being from 1994, SimTower is actually a Windows 3.1 title, so you have to install Windows on DosBox to run it. Maxis learned about the game and offered to publish it in the US, branded as a “Sim”-title.Ģ6 years later, I’ve been digging up old games and wanted to really beat SimTower this time. The game was released as “The Tower” in Japan and was relatively successful.
SimTower was not actually developed by Maxis, but instead by Yoot Saito, who was inspired by the 1989 SimCity. The excellent SimCity 2000 released last year, but we’re looking at a lesser known title, SimTower. Whether an application runs ok with a certain number is for you to find out.It’s 1994, and Maxis is a big name in gaming. Set cycles=auto to cycles=xxxx, where xxxx is the number of instructions each millisecond.Set cycles=auto to cycles=max to make sure DOSBox can use all your computer's processing power if necessary.
Windows 8 and Windows 10: Press the Windows key + Q, type in dosbox, and the options file DOSBox 0.7x Options should appear in the search results, click it.Windows 7: Press CTRL + ESC (or Start button), type in dosbox and the options file DOSBox 0.7x Options should appear in the search results, click it.To set an alternative default speed that always will be used when you start DOSBox, you need to edit the configuration file. Changing the speed permanently through the options file
So if you need to increase speed, there's something seriously wrong with either your computer or the software you try to run. This means that all your computer's processing power is used if necessary. Please note that when the status bar says the speed is max 100% cycles, you cannot increase the speed.